Half of the state authorities on the University City women

Zimbabwe have come a law compelling the minister of higher and tertiary education at the university councils, to ensure that women are half of the appointed ministers, as necessary to the country's Constitution.

The General Laws Amendment Bill, which is currently passing through parliament president by Emerson Mnangagwa, as well as to look for "fair representation of regional" universities.

The bill seeks 126 President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai negotiated between the former prime minister to bring the law into conformity with the Constitution in 2013, the days of the coalition government. The coalition won the election in July 2013 ended with Mugabe - Tsvangirai claimed that they were.

The new constitution of their working together, Mugabe's power to provide checks and balances and giving greater freedom in Zimbabwe was a major achievement of the previous constitution.

Mugabe was the only woman in the cabinet, despite outrage among women's activists. MPs are now laws to achieve gender parity, such as pushing the governance of the university.

Constitutional provisions ignored

According to the General Law Amendment Bill, the minister of higher and tertiary education "is to try, at least, to ensure that women are half of the appointed members of the Council". The clauses of the bill in the National Assembly Committee for Gender Justice agreed to the portfolio.

Jessie Majored, the chair of the committee, said in an interview to promote gender and regional representation in parliament, the law did not meet the constitutional provisions.

"The Constitution does not require that regional gender balance and fair representation of all sectors and institutions to be, and they do not have a lot of appointments, even at the highest level, are not reflected in these things," said Majored Tsvangirai Movement for Democratic Change, who is deputy justice He was minister of the coalition government.

According to the constitution, the state fair and reasonable to take positive action to promote previously marginalized groups, and that all communities should have equitable access to resources to promote their development.

"The state should take all measures, including legislative measures, both genders equally to all institutions and organizations and the government to ensure that the representation (ii) at least one woman and arbitrary fees and other government bodies made up half of all new," says the constitution.