Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora has secretly deployed thuggish pastors to dodge the Constitutional Court’s highly expected landmark ruling on the militant vow (the National Pledge) he imposed on Zimbabwe’s school children, it has emerged.
Last week ZimEye.com revealed Minister Dokora used pastors led by a little known so called “Dr.Apostle” Alexander Chisango to announce backdoor claims that churches had reached an agreement with his anti-Christian plot exposed by ZimEye.com early this year in which Dokora was later forced to reverse his ban on the voluntary Bible club, Scripture Union in schools. (ALSO READ- Dokora Hides Behind Pastors). In another expose on the same matter, Dokora would deny his violation of the constitution to the point of accusing not only ZimEye.com journalists but also State Media scribes of what he claimed was “lying.”

“Fatima Bulla (State Media journo) lied,” Dokora would deny while lashing at ZimEye’s Simbarashe Chikanza.

The Constitutional Court yesterday postponed indefinitely an application by a Harare man seeking to challenge the government’s decision compelling all schoolchildren to recite the national pledge following claims that minister Dokora was engaged in consultative meetings with various churches.
The application was filed by a father (name withheld) of three school-going children, who is a member of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM).
In his application, the man argued the national pledge was a prayer which exalted various secular phenomena, including the national flag, mothers and fathers who lost their lives during the liberation struggle.
Through his lawyer David Hofisi of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), the man further argued the national pledge was unconstitutional and against his religious beliefs and as such, did not want his children to recite it.
However, when the matter was set to be heard by a full bench, Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku pointed out that the Registrar had received correspondence from the Attorney-General (AG)’s Office seeking postponement of the matter on the basis of ongoing consultations.
Part of the letter addressed to the Registrar Constitutional Court by one M Chimombe of the AG’s Office read: “. . . The basis for seeking a postponement is that our client, the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, is currently engaged in consultative meetings with various churches, who have raised their concerns regarding the national pledge. The leadership of the applicant’s church is among the churches that are being engaged. We believe the engagement will resolve the matter that is before the court.”
But Hofisi was reluctant to have the matter postponed as his client had nothing to do with the on-going consultations.
Hofisi further said since the AG’s Office official dealing with the matter had suffered bereavement, he had no option, but to concede to the application sought by prosecutor Olivia Zvedi.
The matter was postponed indefinitely and parties directed to approach the Registrar for a new set-down date after 30 days.- Newsday