Programme and Speakers (Focus on Breakaway Sessions)

	Process of Constitution-Building Chair: Prof Jaap de Visser, Director: Community Law Centre (UWC) GH1 (+TRANSLATION)	Designing the structure of the state Chair: Dr. Yonatan Fessha, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law (UWC) GH3.5	Limits on State Power Chair: Dr Ebenezer Durojaye, Head of Socio-Economic Rights Project, Community Law Centre (UWC) GH2	Implementing the Constitution Chair: Mr Derek Powell, Head of Multi-Level Government Initiative, Community Law Centre (UWC) GH3
9h30 – 10h30 BREAKAWAY SESSION 1 Session	The Global Political Agreement: constitution-making process in Zimbabwe: A new People-Driven constitution or a misnomer? Chido Masunda & Wurayayi Zembe Games Politicians play: Zimbabwe and the making of a metaphorical constitution Moses Tofa & Rejoice Makaudze	Implementation of the Constitution of Kenya by county governments: The significance of public participation Caroline Kago The inevitable: Devolution in Zimbabwe’s Constitution making process Davison Muchadenyika	Legislative - Executive Relations in the Ethiopian Parliamentary System: Towards institutional and Legal Reform Prof. Assefa Fiseha The Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan Paleki Obur	Why Constitutions in Africa do not stand the Test of Time: Lessons and perspectives from the 1995 Uganda’s Constitution Saude Nabukenya Constitution-making under governments of National Unity: The Zimbabwean case 2009-2013 Tobias Guzura
10h30 - 11h00	Tea
11h00 – 12h45 BREAKAWAY SESSION 2	Zambia’s Constitutional processes, leaving women out in the cold? Tabeth Masengu	Devolution of power in Zimbabwe’s new Constitutional order: Opportunities and potential constraints Philani Moyo & Cornelias Ncube	Limits on State Power: Examining the Role of Independent Commissions in Kenya Eric Opiyo & Edward Wabwoto	The Case for Comprehensive Scenario Building as a Means for Pre-testing the Articles of a Proposed Constitution to Ensure Viability Post Promulgation: A Case Study of Kenya Linda Musumba
	The Responsibility of the judge in the development of constitutional governance in Africa Sofie Baker Djoumessi Kenfack	Constitution-making: A never ending process? An enquiry into the Constant Amendments to the Cameroonian Constitution Pierrette Essame Mekongo	The limits of State Power through Constitutional Supremacy: A case of Academic Freedom Struggle in Malawi Ngcimezile Mweso	The Judiciary - Emerging Vanguard of Kenya's Constitution Implementation Process Melizsa Mugyenyi
	The requirements for a stable constitution in South Sudan Etienne Mutabazi	The ‘Best Loser System’: An ingenious electoral system that helped Mauritius in maintaining peace in its multi-racial society or a system that institutionalizes racial division? Amar Roopanand Mahadew	And they keep saying, ‘My President, My Emperor, and my All’: Exploring the antidote to the perpetual threat on Constitutionalism in Malawi Enoch Chilemba	The challenge of translating institutional design into lived experience: Lessons from the constitutional reform process of Kenya Solomon Dersso
12h45 – 13h45	Lunch
13h45 – 15h30	PLENARY SESSION ON THE RELEVANCE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN EXPERIENCE Prof Yash Pal Ghai (The former chair of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission, Director, Katiba Institute, Nairobi) Dr Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi (The former Minister of Safety and Security as well as Provincial and Local Government, Director, School of Leadership, Faculty of Management, University of Johannesburg) Mr Mohammed Valli Moosa (The former Minister Constitutional Development, Chairman of Anglo American Platinum company) (Facilitator: Prof Nico Steytler, South African Research Chair: Multilevel Government, Law and Policy)
16h00 – 17h30 BREAKAWAY SESSION 3	Constitutionalism and democracy under the constitution of 18 February 2006 in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Between hope and disappointment Noel Kabeya	The 1994 South African Constitution and the lost principle of non-citizens voting rights Wessel le Roux	The place of the judicial review mechanism in a majoritarian democracy under a regime of presidential absolutism in Francophone Africa: The case of Cameroon. Justin Wanki	The Military and Constitution-making: The Nigerian Experience Ikuromo Margaret Oruan
	Judge and Crisis. Thoughts on the jurisprudence of the Constitutional courts of Madagascar and Comores Laurent Sermet	The rebirth of the Political question doctrine in Uganda: Self-imposed freedom from the Judicial Review David Brian Dennison	Inclusion of Justiciable Socio-Economic Rights in Bills of Rights: Lessons for Northern Ireland from South Africa and Zimbabwe Anne Smith and Khanyisela Moyo	Rethinking the Nigerian constitution; the way forward Ojo Victoria Olayide
13h30-20h30 Main Hall	COCKTAIL	OFFERED BY THE	PRPVINCIAL MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT	HON ALBERT FRITZ