Parly summons journos over postal voting petition

TWO Bulawayo-based journalists, Mandla Tshuma and Lulu Brenda Harris, have been invited to a meeting by Parliament following their petition seeking the amendment of the Electoral Act to include postal voting for journalists.

Postal voting is only accorded to people in the security services, at embassies abroad and other civil servants on electoral duty.

Tshuma of Magwegwe, and Harris of Queens Park in Bulawayo, filed their petition on April 5 last year, and Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda announced it in Parliament on July 20.

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