{"title":"Public Access to, Involvement in, and the Right to Petition Parliament in Zimbabwe","authors":"Eventhough Ndlovu, Tinashe Mtetwa, Della Makina","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2021.2012501","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Section 141 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No.20) Act, 2013 guarantees public access to and involvement in Parliament. Section 149 of the same legislation enshrines the right to petition Parliament. This study examines these sections in order to ascertain the extent to which they guarantee public access to, involvement in, and the right to petition Parliament. Language rights constitute the basis for the enjoyment of these rights. These rights become meaningless if they are not guaranteed in one’s language of choice or in forms of communication suitable for persons with disabilities. This study found that the public is denied true access to and involvement in Parliament because linguistic access is denied to them. These rights are not guaranteed in one’s language of choice or in forms of communication suitable for persons with disabilities.","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"52 1","pages":"114 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language Matters","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2021.2012501","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Section 141 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No.20) Act, 2013 guarantees public access to and involvement in Parliament. Section 149 of the same legislation enshrines the right to petition Parliament. This study examines these sections in order to ascertain the extent to which they guarantee public access to, involvement in, and the right to petition Parliament. Language rights constitute the basis for the enjoyment of these rights. These rights become meaningless if they are not guaranteed in one’s language of choice or in forms of communication suitable for persons with disabilities. This study found that the public is denied true access to and involvement in Parliament because linguistic access is denied to them. These rights are not guaranteed in one’s language of choice or in forms of communication suitable for persons with disabilities.
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The purpose of Language Matters is to provide a journal of international standing with a unique African flavour focusing on multilingualism in Africa. Although the journal contributes to the language debate on all African languages, sub-Saharan Africa and issues related to multilingualism in the southern African context are the journal’s specific domains. The journal seeks to promote the dissemination of ideas, points of view, teaching strategies and research on different aspects of African languages, providing a forum for discussion on the whole spectrum of language usage and debate in Africa. The journal endorses a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and welcomes contributions not only from sociolinguists, psycholinguists and the like, but also from educationalists, language practitioners, computer analysts, engineers or scholars with a genuine interest in and contribution to the study of language. All contributions are critically reviewed by at least two referees. Although the general focus remains on multilingualism and related issues, one of the three issues of Language Matters published each year is a special thematic edition on Language Politics in Africa. These special issues embrace a wide spectrum of language matters of current relevance in Southern Africa.
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