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Online Reporter
PEOPLE with disabilities (PWDs) are among officials that will preside over Wednesday’s harmonised elections, it has been learnt.
During a press conference recently held by Signs of Hope Trust, in partnership with MISA Zimbabwe and the Parliament of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) commissioner for disability affairs Dr Kudzai Shava said: “Our human resources department has and is still giving people with disabilities roles to play in the whole process of elections.”
Gone are the days, he added, when PWDs were treated as charity cases.
Signs of Hope Trust director Ms Samantha Sibanda said:
“We are running a campaign on access to electoral information, specifically for people with disabilities.
“As we go for a general election, it is very pertinent for us to discuss the state of access to information for persons with disabilities,” she said.
Bongani Ndlovu