ZIMBABWEANS are to vote in a referendum on March 16 to decide the fate of a draft constitution which has been overwhelmingly backed by its political authors but is facing opposition from the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) led by lawyer Lovemore Madhuku, who, writes Dumisani Ndlela, could be fighting a rearguard battle.
IT is easy to get a feeling that politicians think their supporters to be string-puppets, and there is no better occasion to observe this than from Zimbabwe's current constitution-making drama.
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