Commissions Watch 8 June 2019 - ZACC Vacancies - Candidates to be Interviewed 21 June 2019
COMMISSIONS WATCH
[8th June 2019]
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission
Shortlisted Candidates to be Publicly Interviewed
on Friday 21st June at Parliament
On 31st January this year the then chairperson and all the eight members
of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission resigned.
The Constitution gives Parliament’s Committee on Standing Rules and
Orders [CSRO] the responsibility of advising the President on the
appointment of the chairperson and other members of the Zimbabwe AntiCorruption Commission [ZACC] [Constitution, sections 254 and 237].
The new chairperson has already been appointed by the President after
consultation with CSRO, as required by section 254 of the Constitution.
She is Mrs Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo.
The procedure for the appointment of the eight Commission members is
different. They must be appointed from a list of at least twelve nominees
submitted to the President by the CSRO. The nomination procedure is the
same as that laid down by section 237 of the Constitution for the CSRO’s
nomination of persons for appointment to the five Chapter 12 Independent
Commissions.
The CSRO has already completed the early steps in that process by
publishing a public notice advertising the eight positions needing to be filled
and inviting the President and members of the public to make nominations
of qualified individuals [see Commissions Watch of 15th February [link]].
Nomination documents were received for 133 candidates and the CSRO
then published their names and invited the public not only to submit
objections to the appointment of any of the candidates, but also to submit
suggestions for questions to be put to candidates when they were
interviewed [see Commissions Watch of 21st March].
Now the CSRO has published notices announcing that the next step in the
process will take place on Friday 21st June at Parliament, when two
interviewing teams will conduct public interviews of prospective candidates
as required by section 237(1)(c) of the Constitution. The interviews will be
conducted in the National Assembly chamber and the Senate chamber and
will start at 9 am.
The short list of 38 candidates who will be interviewed has been compiled
after what the notices describe as an “exhaustive analysis of the nominated
candidates to decipher their suitability for consideration to serve on this
Commission”. Their names and the times and venues of their interviews
are set out in the following tables from the CSRO notice: