"No going back on the constitution": Youth will positively participate at the 2nd All Stakeholders Conference

The Youth Assembly is geared to participate at the second All Stakeholders conference as the nation is set to witness a historic process where the sons and daughters of Zimbabwe are going to be given feedback on what has transpired thus far since the constitutional outreach.

The historical constitution making process has reached crucial stages with the population set to stamp their signatures on the document through the subsequent referendum, setting the ground hopefully for a peaceful, free and fare plebiscite.

My Voice is in.
My Vote is YES.

The Youth Assembly would like to reiterate that there is no going back on this process and has scaled up and spread its wings wider in the Vote YES campaign dubbed “My Voice is In, My Vote is Yes.” It is the Assembly’s great concern that the constitution making process, as dictated by Article 6 has dragged for over two years while the sons and daughters of Zimbabwe await.

Zanu PF elements disrupting the
 1st All Stakeholders Conference

It is however commendable that against all odds, the process has managed to leap from stage to stage and now the draft constitution is in the hands of the people. The process which started over three years ago with the setting up of the Select Committee (Copac), led to the convening of the first All Stakeholders Conference-which Zanu Pf frantically tried to derail in vain, the public consultation process, the drafting, and is now at the stage of tabling the draft to the second all stakeholders conference set for the 21^st to the 23^rd of October.

The people’s process has reached a no-going-back stage and it is the demand of the Youth Assembly that the people’s will be respected, that the remaining stages be expedited timeously as the nation moves closer to the completion of the transition to a new democratic Zimbabwe. The Assembly would like to warn any other parties and/or any terror group that harbor any intentions of derailing the freedom train to desist from that and honor the people’s will.

Change is inevitable.

Together to the end… Building a youth with a difference.

By MDCYA Information department

MDC members denied bail, case resumes tomorrow

High Court Judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu today denied bail to 29 MDC activists detained on charges of murdering a police officer at Glen View  shopping center in May 2011.

The judge instructed the defense team led by Beatrice Mtetwa to seek bail through the Supreme Court and dismissed evidence given to the court by the late Mutedza’s brother Tichaona Mutedza and father Solomon Mutedza that the deceased had missing body parts on him - an indication that Mutedza could have been murdered elsewhere.

The judge cited irregularities saying the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights had coached Mutedza’s brother to incriminate Zanu PF and the police. The judge said this was not permissible in Court and therefore could not be justified as strong evidence against the allegations.

Justice Bhunu said that since Tichaona Mutedza noticed that there were missing parts and decided not to report to the police to confirm this, the testimony could have been a fabrication. He described the evidence as fictitious without any value and a waste of the court’s time.

Mtetwa  in turn  argued that if the evidence given by the Mutedzas’ was fictitious, then the evidence by state witnesses that the 29 activists got into two cars after the murder was also based on hearsay since there are no witnesses and therefore, fictitious.

The judge then adjourned the case to tomorrow.

Justice Bhunu said it was normal for murder cases to drag for more than two years and in this particular case the number of the accused justified the length of time taken to bring the case to finality.

Mai Tsvangirai together with Hon. Douglas Mwonzora and Hon. Nelson Chamisa were at the court giving moral support to the detained MDC members.

The MDC maintains that the detained members are law-abiding citizens who have no case to answer. The Party acknowledges the dire need for change in the country so that our laws can be impartial and citizens can receive free and fair trial.

Meanwhile, Jackson Mabota and Tarisai Kusotera the two MDC Youth Assembly leaders from Glen View South are still detained at Harare Central Police Station, two days after their arrest  for allegedly murdering Inspector Mutedza. They will appear before a Harare magistrate tomorrow.

Together to end,building a youth with a difference.