Both versions were used in determining what eventually went into the Draft Constitution. The Thematic Committee discussions resulted in key reports that are contained in the National Statistical reports that form part of this report. This information may become useful in future national programmes as it is a result of meticulous attention by the participants. Subsidiary legislation may find this mass of data useful. The participants in the Thematic Committee discussions is appended to this report (Annex 3) 5. Drafting Process After the Thematic Committees, which lasted thirty five days instead of the scheduled fifteen, the Select Committee embarked on an audit and cleaning up of the work of the Thematic Committees in readiness for the Drafting process. Quality Control became a central feature of the constitution making process. 5.1. Steps in the Drafting process As part of the Drafting process, preparatory work was carried as follows: a) The extraction of Constitutional issues as derived from the outreach process. These are contained in a document entitled ‘Drafting Instruments’ which is also being tabled for the consideration of this Honourable House. b) The second exercise was to extract, from the list of constitutional issues, the list of Agreed Constitutional issues that were to actually go into the constitution These are also contained in the document entitled ‘Drafting Instruments’ noted above. c) The Select Committee also developed 26 constitutional principles from the National Statistical Reports to guide the drafting process. These are also contained in the document entitled ‘Drafting Instruments’ noted above. Whereas in other jurisdictions such as in South Africa the Constitutional principles were developed to guide the views to be included into the constitution, the Zimbabwean approach was to derive these Constitutional principles from what the people had said. It is what they said that informed the Constitutional Principles rather than the other way round. The exercise to have the above was undertaken in Masvingo at Great Zimbabwe from 29 October to 3 November 2011. The Select Committee, together with seventeen experts, five drawn from each of the political parties in the GNU as well as two representatives of Chiefs then went to Leopard Rock in Nyanga to consider the issue of gaps that needed to be filled in order for Drafting to be undertaken. The one week of work resulted in the Select Committee producing a ‘Document on Gap Filling’. There were gaps in the information that was collected during the outreach programme. In some instances technical questions were not addressed. People answered the question “what”, and did not address the question of “how” they wanted the issues to be effected in the constitution. The Select Committee with the assistance of technical experts then conducted a process of identifying and filling the gaps 47 The Constitution Select Committee (COPAC) Report to Parliament, February 2013