provides for members of the Civil Service Commission and the Health Services Board to be seconded to the Respondent. 62. Additionally, the actual membership of the NLC at the national level and at provincial and district level remains obscure; the NLC’s role and mandate from the First Respondent is unclear and its operations and accountability to the First Respondent remain opaque. Since the NLC is clearly central to the administration of the election it is essential that there is transparency around these issues. 63. Therefore, the Applicants will move for a declaratory order that in terms of section 3 (2) (g), section 156 (a) section 233 (d) and section 239 (a) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe and section 3 of the Electoral Act, as read with section 10 of the Electoral Act, the First Respondent may not delegate any of its mandate to the NLC unless all members of the NLC have been seconded to the First Respondent in terms of section 10 and are under its direction and control; that members of the Security Services may not be seconded to the Respondent or be involved in the administration of the election; that there is a legal duty on the First Respondent to publish in advance of the election the names, roles and government departments of all personnel that make up the NLC, or any other 28

Select target paragraph3

Add to table of contents