source: SW Radio Africa
By Lance Guma
09 July 2009
A constitutional conference scheduled to be held this Friday has now been moved to Monday, amid reports of serious bickering within ZANU PF and their last minute bid to have it postponed indefinitely. Newsreel understands several ZANU PF MP’s are complaining that MP’s in the Tsvangirai MDC have ‘hijacked’ the constitution making process. A report in the state owned Herald newspaper quotes some of them claiming that ZANU PF members in the select committee are allowing their MDC colleagues to dominate proceedings. Friday’s convention would have been the first major meeting of all key participants in the constitution making process, but ZANU PF were determined to have it postponed indefinitely we are told.
MP Douglas Mwonzora from the Tsvangirai MDC, Paul Mangwana from ZANU PF and Senator David Coltart from the Mutambara MDC are the chairmen of the special parliamentary committee dealing with the constitution making process. When they met on Tuesday it was reported they had refused to [continue reading]
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10 July, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Delays at that end do not come as a surprise
I am waiting patiently( and my patience is running out ) for the OLd Mutual to convert the zim dollar to the US$ and they have not done it
One would have expected big companies like this to have already done but NO IT IS ALWAYS AT A VERY VERY VERY SLOW PACE- I first tried the email – which should make communicating more effectively – NO RESPONSE – THEN I SENT A FAX – NO REPONSE -I GET AN EMAIL THIS WEEK TO SAY THEY ARE STILL DOING IT !! OH MY – THE SERVICE DELIVERY IS PATHETIC – MAYBE THEY WANT MONEY UNDER THE COUNTER!!!- NO I WILL DO IT OVER THE COUNTER!!!
I also tried to contact Rainbow Tourism Group re- an enquiry – I GOT NO RESPONSE – SENT AN EMAIL AND A FAX TO THEIR SOUTH AFRICA OFFICE – NO RESPONSE TO DATE THIS IS THREE MONTHS AGO – HOW DO THEY DO BUSINESS ???I SUPOOSE THE SAYING THAT THERE IS PLENTY TIME IN AFRICA IS TRUE!!!