Zimbabwe has a long and murky history of constitutional reform. The 1999 Zimbabwe Constitutional Review Process, led (“remote controlled”) by President Mugabe is similar, if not the same, as the 2021 Botswana Constitutional Review Process as led by President Masisi.
Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa in a paper titled Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Reform Process: Challenges and Prospects, traces the Zimbabwean Constitutional Reform process from the Lancaster House Agreement of December 1979, which paved way for the implementation of the negotiated settlements between the white-minority government and the independence movement led by Robert Mugabe.
There's more to this story
But to keep reading, we need you to subscribe.
Investigative journalism is an indispensable part of a healthy society, but it's also expensive to produce. We are reliant on subscriptions to fund our work, and while you can enjoy most of our stories for free, a small number of premium features are reserved for subscribers.
You can subscribe for one week, a month or a full year - the choice is yours.
Save 77% on an annual subscription. Click here to find out how.
Existing subscribers can log in to keep reading here.
