Police Ban Women’s March on Electoral Reforms (New Zimbabwe.Com)
POLICE have banned the Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) from holding a protest march on the electoral reforms.
POLICE have banned the Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) from holding a protest march on the electoral reforms.
“An important area which require urgent reforms in our elections is that of violence, especially violence against us women. I do not feel safe as a voter and candidate during elections and the police, ZEC and political parties need to find urgent and sustainable solutions to this serious problem,” said...
Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) notes with serious concern the recent gazetting of far reaching constitutional amendments by the Government of Zimbabwe through the Clerk of Parliament. Of grave disquiet to WALPE is the envisaged extension of the women’s Parliamentary proportional representation quota system which gives 60 seats...