By Leopold Munhende
SEVENTEEN local women-based groups have united to call on government to lift its controversial ban on by-elections.
The ban has been in place ostensibly as part of government’s measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 during its peak in the country.
Some 26 parliamentary and 80 ward seats have been rendered vacant mainly due to expulsions on MDC Alliance MPs by the rival MDC-T which was declared the legitimate faction of the feuding opposition.
Said the organisations in a statement, “The undersigned women’s rights organisations, working on promoting democracy, good governance and the full participation of women, women with disabilities and young women in electoral processes, are deeply concerned with the indefinite suspension of by-elections in Zimbabwe.