Constitutional values and breaches

The Constitution was enacted in 2013 and is in effect the 20th amendment to the country’s very first Constitution cobbled together by different interest political groups at the Lancaster House Conference in 1979. It was the result of the talks to end the bloody conflict between the native black people and descendants of mostly British settlers who had come into the country in 1890. The 2013 Constitution repealed and replaced the 1980 Constitution, after a long drawn out national consultative process between the years 2009 and 2013 during the government of national unity, which comprised Zanu PF, MDC-T and MDC.

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