DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS TRUST Tel: [263] [4] 794478 Fax & Messages [263] [4] 793592 E-mail: veritas@mango.zw Veritas makes every effort to ensure the provision of reliable information, but cannot take legal responsibility for information supplied. 6 The Constitution does not refer to week days but days. This is to be taken to mean seven calendar days and includes Saturdays and Sundays. In terms of r 23(2) of the Constitutional Court Rules, 2016, the application shall be lodged with the Registrar and shall be served on the respondent within seven (7) days of the declaration of the result of that election. The first respondent was declared the duly elected president on 3 August 2018. In terms of s 93(1) of the Constitution as read with r 23(2) of the Constitutional Court Rules, the applicant had until 10 August 2018 to file and serve the application on the respondents. The applicant appears to have been cognizant of the reckoning of days and time limitations prescribed by the Constitution and waited until the last day to file his application shortly before close of the Constitutional Court Registry on 10 August 2018. He was entitled by law to do so. Having done so, the applicant was then faced with a further obligation to serve the process on all the respondents on the same day. The applicant could only do so