PVOs Bill hearings must be redone

HUMAN rights campaigner Farai Maguwu has petitioned Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda to reconvene public hearings on the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill after the meetings were disrupted by suspected Zanu PF activists.

The public hearings, held from May 13 to 17 countrywide and meant to solicit the input of the public and other stakeholders on the controversial draft piece of legislation, were conducted by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare.

The Bill seeks to regulate the operations of civic society organisations, which government claims are allegedly funded by powerful Western countries to effect regime change in Zimbabwe.

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