Zi m ba bw e’s CONST I TUT I O na l REFORM pr o ce ss summit’s undertaking to appoint a team of officials to join President Zuma’s facilitation team and to work with Zimbabwe’s own GPA monitoring body, the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee, ‘to ensure monitoring, evaluation and implementation of the GPA’ (SADC 2011). The worst-case scenario is therefore that President Mugabe may call elections in 2012 or 2013 with or without a new constitution. It remains to be seen how SADC would react to this, and whether the two MDC formations would participate in or boycott such elections. The best-case scenario is for SADC to prevail upon the Zimbabwean parties to adopt a new democratic constitution and follow an agreed roadmap towards conducting peaceful, transparent and credible elections in line with SADC’s principles and guidelines. History shows that this could be a tall order. President Mugabe and fellow ZANU-PF officials have gone on record stressing that Zimbabwe is a sovereign state, and will not countenance being dictated to by SADC regarding the implementation of the GPA. Notes 1 Judge Mohammed is quoted in Hatchard (2001: 210). 2 This is despite the fact that the process through which parliament can pass a vote of no confidence in the president has become extremely cumbersome. 3 The chiefs in question are Augustine Chihuri (Police Commissioner General), Constantine Chiwenga, (Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces), Lieutenant-General Philip Valerio Sibanda (Commander of the Zimbabwe National Army), Air Marshal Perrance Shiri (Commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe) and Retired Major General Paradzai Zimondi (now Commissioner of Prisons). 4 See also: COPAC Blasts Government, Donors over Funds. Zimbabwe Independent, 14–20 January, p. 4. 5 UNDP Receives Additional Funding from Development Partners for COPAC to Support Constitution Making in Zimbabwe. UNDP Press Release, 24 November 2011. Online at: http:// www.undp.org.zw/media-centre/news/22 6 Zanu PF out to Derail New Charter. Newsday, 6 January 2012. 7 Zanu PF Threat to Sink Constitution over Devolution. New Zimbabwe, 7 March 2012. 8 Chiwenga Summons Copac for Briefing. Radio VOP, 29 January 2012. http://www.radiovop.com/ index.php/national-news/8107-chiwenga-summons-copac-for-briefing.html 9 Truth Commission in New Constitution. Newsday, 27 April 2012. 10 See: BAZ Awards Radio Licences, ZimOnline, November 2011. 11 Quoted in: We’ll Sell Our Diamonds, Herald, 12 September 2011. 12 Statement by the spokesperson of the European Union’s High Representative, Catherine Ashton, on consultations with the Zimbabwe re-engagement team, 10 May 2012. 13 See: Possible to Hold Polls This Year: DPM, Herald, 7 June 2012. 14 Zimbabwe’s Constitution Committee Meets Over New Zanu PF Demands, VOA News, 11 June 2012. 13