Staff Reporter|Former Vice President Joyce Mujuru will officially register her People First party with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ZEC within the next two weeks, sources say.
This came out as a resolution of the party’s provincial coordinators and the steering National Executive Committee last week.
Very reliable sources within the party who attended the meeting told ZimEye.com that the convergence resolved to urgently register the party as it was difficult to operate at law as an unregistered organisation.
The sources claim that police have been refusing to allow the party’s public meetings as it was not a known entity according to Zimbabwean laws.
The move is thus being done to facilitate Mujuru’s tour of the country expected to see her through all provinces before launching her party in early March.
The Public Order and Security Act POSA requires that anyone intending to hold a public meeting must first give the police a noticed of intention to hold the meeting. It also tacitly imposes that the person(s) must be visible as an entity. The police have a prerogative to stop the meeting if they feel the meeting has security concerns.
Contacted by ZimEye.com for a direct comment, Mujuru had not sent in her response at the time of writing.