{"id":4648,"date":"2014-02-20T14:14:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T12:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2014-02-20T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T12:14:57","slug":"press-statement-by-the-oasis-forum-20th-feb-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/20\/press-statement-by-the-oasis-forum-20th-feb-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Statement by the Oasis Forum &#8211; 20th Feb 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i><a title=\"Oasis Forum Press Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/a-press-statement-of-the-oasis-forum-on-the-need-for-a-new-constitution-as-the-best-jubilee-gift.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4649 aligncenter\" alt=\"Oasis Forum all Logos\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/oasis-forum-all-logos.png?resize=629%2C140\" width=\"629\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/oasis-forum-all-logos.png?w=838&amp;ssl=1 838w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/oasis-forum-all-logos.png?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/oasis-forum-all-logos.png?resize=768%2C171&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a>Delivering unto ourselves a new and people driven constitution is the best way to celebrate Zambia\u2019s golden jubilee<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>The Oasis Forum, do hereby fully support the recent observations made by Reverend Suzanne Matale from the Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) that it is difficult to see the \u201cjoy\u201d of the Jubilee-Year in Zambia when so many of our people, including our dear freedom fighters, are wallowing in abject poverty and being subjected to fear and intimidation by their own leaders. In addition, we would like to reiterate the demand we earlier made that the best Jubilee gift for Zambia in this \u201cYear of the Lord\u2019s Favor\u201d is a new and people driven constitution. Thus, notwithstanding the current Government\u2019s many attempts to stall and their maneuvers to abort the constitution making process, we the Oasis Forum remain resolved to mobilize the masses at the grassroots and campaign, in a peaceful manner, for the immediate release of the final draft of the constitution and its enactment through a national referendum. So, help us God!<a title=\"Oasis Forum Press Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/a-press-statement-of-the-oasis-forum-on-the-need-for-a-new-constitution-as-the-best-jubilee-gift.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> FULL TEXT<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delivering unto ourselves a new and people driven constitution is the best way to celebrate Zambia\u2019s golden jubilee The Oasis Forum, do hereby fully support the recent observations made by Reverend Suzanne Matale from the Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) that it is difficult to see the \u201cjoy\u201d of the Jubilee-Year in Zambia when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,28],"tags":[375,448,1075,1481],"class_list":["post-4648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-publications","tag-constitution-review-zambia","tag-draft-constitution-in-zambia","tag-oasis-forum","tag-zambian-constitution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}