CSOs rail at govt over PVOs Bill

THE government has come under the spotlight for fast-tracking the contentious Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill without factoring in input from the civil society.

The first version of the Bill was published in November 2021, with its first reading in the National Assembly in February 2022, before it proceeded to crawl its way through the parliamentary processes until it was finally passed by the Senate in 2023.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, however, sent it back to Parliament for reconsideration.

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