{"id":229938,"date":"2026-04-09T14:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zimrights-alleges-flaws-and-intimidation-in-constitutional-hearings\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:35:39","slug":"zimbabwe-zimrights-alleges-flaws-and-intimidation-in-constitutional-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zimrights-alleges-flaws-and-intimidation-in-constitutional-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zimrights Alleges Flaws and Intimidation in Constitutional Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><em>By<\/em> Tinomudaishe Muzanenhamo<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">A leading local civil society organisation has raised concerns over the conduct of recent public hearings on the proposed Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 saying the process may have fallen short of constitutional standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association said the consultations held across the country were marked by irregularities that limited meaningful public participation despite high turnout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604090408.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tinomudaishe Muzanenhamo A leading local civil society organisation has raised concerns over the conduct of recent public hearings on the proposed Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 saying the process may have fallen short of constitutional standards. The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association said the consultations held across the country were marked by irregularities that limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,20138,9729,6340,6832,7612,257,254,4686,421,4734],"class_list":["post-229938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleges","tag-constitutional","tag-flaws","tag-hearings","tag-intimidation","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimrights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}