Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence director Stabile Dewa said the women’s quota system creates a situation where female politicians are viewed as “seat-in members.”
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Women want Parliament quota system scrapped

By Ketty Nyoni VARIOUS groups representing women’s rights want the quota system adopted in 2013 to allow 60 females to be elected as MPs or councillors without going through elections to be scrapped as it was discriminatory. Since the adoption of a new Constitution in 2013, Zimbabwe legislated a quota of 60 seats distributed among…

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