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The recent public hearings on the Constitution Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3) were presented as a nationwide consultation exercise but a new report suggests the process was marked by intimidation, restricted participation and unequal access to voice.<\/p>\n
A report, compiled by the Alliance for Community Based Organisations (ACBOs) draws on observations from 51 hearing venues across the country and paints a picture of a process that while extensive in scope often fell short of democratic standards.<\/p>\n
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Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The recent public hearings on the Constitution Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3) were presented as a nationwide consultation exercise but a new report suggests the process was marked by intimidation, restricted participation and unequal access to voice. A report, compiled by the Alliance for Community Based Organisations (ACBOs) draws on observations from 51 hearing venues […]<\/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":[258,256,11010,7292,9729,10481,6340,6832,257,5144,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-230211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amendment","tag-bill","tag-constitutional","tag-exposes","tag-flaws","tag-hearings","tag-news","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230211","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=230211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230211\/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=230211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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