{"id":230110,"date":"2026-04-11T02:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-lawyers-condemn-flawed-and-intimidating-amendment-hearings\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:39:07","slug":"zimbabwe-lawyers-condemn-flawed-and-intimidating-amendment-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-lawyers-condemn-flawed-and-intimidating-amendment-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Lawyers Condemn &#8216;Flawed and Intimidating&#8217; Amendment Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has criticised the consultative process for Constitutional Amendment Number 3 describing it as rushed, restrictive and potentially undermining democratic principles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">In a statement, the legal body said the four-day consultation period held between 30 March and 2 April 2026 alongside just 65 public meeting centres nationwide was severely restricted and grossly inadequate for a matter of national importance in a country with over six million registered voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604100383.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>The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has criticised the consultative process for Constitutional Amendment Number 3 describing it as rushed, restrictive and potentially undermining democratic principles. In a statement, the legal body said the four-day consultation period held between 30 March and 2 April 2026 alongside just 65 public meeting centres nationwide was severely restricted [&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":[258,256,11010,6764,6563,6832,13423,8569,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-230110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amendment","tag-condemn","tag-flawed","tag-hearings","tag-intimidating","tag-lawyers","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230110","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=230110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230110\/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=230110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}