{"id":13380,"date":"2012-08-10T14:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T12:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/factbox-political-risks-to-watch-in-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T14:20:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T12:20:35","slug":"factbox-political-risks-to-watch-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-political-risks-to-watch-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-Political risks to watch in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Nelson Banya<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">HARARE<\/span> Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe has finished drafting a<br \/>\nnew constitution that limits presidential powers while<br \/>\nstrengthening those of parliament, an important but much-delayed<br \/>\nstep ahead of elections.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The charter&#8217;s adoption in the current form is not<br \/>\nguaranteed, however, as President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF party<br \/>\nseeks to overhaul some of its provisions.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The impoverished southern African nation is bracing for<br \/>\nelections that must be held by next year under the terms of a<br \/>\npower-sharing deal between ZANU-PF and Prime Minister Morgan<br \/>\nTsvangirai&#8217;s MDC.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The vote raises concerns of a repeat of violence that marred<br \/>\nprevious polls and led to hundreds of thousands of people<br \/>\nfleeing to neighbouring South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>BATTLE OVER NEW CONSTITUTION<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An inter-party parliamentary committee driving the<br \/>\nconstitutional reforms has said a referendum on the draft<br \/>\ncharter will be held this year, but the coalition partners are<br \/>\nstill quarrelling over some provisions.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The final charter is likely to be a compromise, since<br \/>\nneither party commands the two-thirds parliamentary majority<br \/>\nneeded to pass the new supreme law. ZANU-PF has accused the MDC<br \/>\nof trying to include measures on voting rights and executive<br \/>\nauthority that could undermine Mugabe&#8217;s party.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nelson Banya HARARE Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe has finished drafting a new constitution that limits presidential powers while strengthening those of parliament, an important but much-delayed step ahead of elections. The charter&#8217;s adoption in the current form is not guaranteed, however, as President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF party seeks to overhaul some of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}