'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ Is Chamisa not putting God to the test in insisting he will win flawed elections! W Mukori

 “PREPARE…Always be ready. You have to be ready! In waiting, you are working. You are working the perfect way and will of God. In the bible, the story of David fascinates me. David was no stranger to the wait. He was chosen king, and yet he had to wait even when Saul was already rejected, dethroned and gone. And as jealousy and vitriol grows, David would have to wait even longer for the throne was assured.” Posted Chamisa on X. 

“David had to wait patiently in the journey of becoming a model leader. But waiting isn’t wasted when #Godisinit. Waiting is a classroom where character is moulded, purpose refined and faith is forged. Integrity is baked in the oven and furnace of trials and tribulations. Waiting doesn’t mean inactivity; it means being strategic, preparing and planning for the next task, yet refusing the temptation to prematurely grab what God has already given and granted.”

All this self proclamation as the anointed one of GOD, all this #Godisinit! and all these quotations from the Bible is boarding of blasphemy. Chamisa conned the people to participate in flawed 2023 elections insisting he had “plugged all the vote rigging loop holes. #Godisinit!” evoking the name of God. 

“I started preparing my cabinet,” he continued. “God’s plan will not fail!”

Yet the day after voting was done, Chamisa was leading from the front those complaining that Zanu PF rigged the elections - the very thing he said would not happen. SADC, the AU and all respectable election observers confirmed the elections were rigged and for the umpteenth time they have recommended that we implement the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections. 

We are now being told that it was NOT God’s plan for Chamisa to win 2023 elections but rather to make him wait. “In waiting, you are working. You are working the perfect way and will of God.”

Strange! Chamisa conned the people to participate in these flawed knowing fully well that doing so would give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship. He and his CCC fiends also knew that Zanu PF was giving away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate. They knew all this! 

“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious - withdraw from the (2023) elections. The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe. 

Chamisa and his MDC/CCC fiends have lied about winning rigged elections to justify their insistence in participating in flawed elections and to to hide the real reason for participating was greed. We the people, have been foolish enough to believe these lies!  

After taking a sabbatical break after the 2023 elections, Chamisa is back. All this grandstanding and posturing by Chamisa is for one purpose one purpose only - to buttress the lie he WILL win flawed 2028 elections and con the people to participate. 

After 45 years of rigged, how many more rigged elections are we going endure before we finally do the obvious paid heed to the election observer teams’ repeated advice to implement the democratic reforms. Why are we asking God to do for us what we can easily to do for ourselves!  

‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ is the one of the few Bible verses Chamisa has yet to quote! 

Ziyambi Ziyambi gives a masterful rebuttal of Chiwenga's claim the Army deserve credit for 2017 coup. A Pyrrhic victory, at best! W Mukori

 When Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi stood before the ZANU PF Politburo on Tuesday to present a formal rebuttal to Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's allegations, he did not merely read a document. 

He delivered a declaration of political war disguised as a legal defence. 

The text, couched in the language of constitutionalism and party discipline, was in reality a carefully choreographed attempt by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reassert control, criminalise dissent, and finally dismantle the uneasy military-civilian compact that has defined Zimbabwean politics since the coup of 2017.

This was not just a statement of defence; it was a manifesto of dominance. For the first time since assuming power, Mnangagwa has chosen to confront his deputy head on, abandoning the fiction of unity that has held ZANU PF together through a fragile coexistence of mutual suspicion. In doing so, he has signalled that the long-postponed reckoning between the civilian leadership and the military elite has arrived.

By assigning the justice minister and not a political aide to deliver the rebuttal, Mnangagwa elevated what was previously an internal quarrel into a formal institutional matter. Ziyambi's dual role as both cabinet minister and party Secretary for Legal Affairs provided the perfect vehicle through which to convert a political contest into a legal and ideological indictment. 

What began as an exchange of accusations within the presidium has thus been transformed into a matter of state legitimacy.

This tactic is as deliberate as it is effective. 

Mnangagwa understands that within ZANU PF, disputes resolved through the party's disciplinary mechanisms can be managed, contained, and erased from memory. 

But once framed as constitutional breaches, as treasonous, inciteful, or subversive, they assume a permanence that allows him to deploy the full coercive machinery of the state. In short, Ziyambi's rebuttal was a legal trap masquerading as an act of clarification.

At the heart of Mnangagwa's counteroffensive lies a profound act of political revisionism. 

Chiwenga's alleged letter sought to reclaim authorship of the 2017 coup, Operation Restore Legacy, as a military intervention that rescued both the nation and the party from the clutches of Robert Mugabe's dynastic ambitions. That narrative has always been Chiwenga's moral claim to power, that he was the midwife of the Second Republic, and therefore its rightful heir.

Ziyambi's rebuttal dismantles this claim with surgical precision. 

It reframes the coup not as a military rescue mission, but as a collective national effort encompassing the party, ordinary citizens, and patriotic business figures such as Kudakwashe Tagwirei. 

By distributing ownership of the event, the rebuttal dilutes the military's monopoly on legitimacy. 

The military becomes a participant, not the protagonist, in Zimbabwe's political rebirth.

This is a masterstroke of political narrative control. Mnangagwa is rewriting the central myth of his presidency, recasting himself not as a beneficiary of military benevolence, but as the chosen leader of a broad-based patriotic movement. 

In doing so, he shifts the moral centre of power away from the barracks and back to the State House. It is, in essence, a coup against the memory of a coup.

Perhaps the most striking feature of Ziyambi's document is its relentless invocation of criminal language. 

Chiwenga's conduct and claims are described as treasonous, inciteful, and reminiscent of the events of November 2017. 

The message is clear: criticism of Mnangagwa is no longer mere disloyalty, it is a threat to national security.

This shift from political to criminal vocabulary is not merely semantic. 

It signals that Mnangagwa intends to move the battlefield from the party's internal structures to the courts and security apparatus. 

By framing Chiwenga's alleged actions as subversive, the president is constructing a legal pretext for his neutralisation, whether through political isolation, judicial harassment, or eventual prosecution.

This is a tactic borrowed from Mnangagwa's long apprenticeship under Mugabe, the weaponisation of legality. Where Mugabe deployed revolutionary legitimacy to destroy rivals, Mnangagwa uses constitutionalism and the veneer of order. 

His genius lies in transforming repression into the language of rule of law.

Another revealing aspect of the rebuttal is its vigorous defence of the businessmen whom Chiwenga reportedly accused of corruption and undue influence, - Kudakwashe Tagwirei, Wicknell Chivhayo, Pedzisai “Scott” Sakupwanya, and Delish Nguwaya. 

These figures, long accused of profiteering from state contracts and proximity to power, are recast by Ziyambi as patriotic benefactors who sacrifice for the party and contribute to national development.

This rhetorical inversion serves a dual purpose. 

First, it sanitises Mnangagwa's inner circle of financiers, transforming accusations of corruption into acts of philanthropy.

Masterful as Ziyambi Ziyambi rebuttal was did not touch Justice George Chiweshe’s ruling after the 2017 military coup that it was “justified, legal and constitutional.” The judgement was nonsense because Justice Chiweshe did quote the Chapter and verse in the constitution that allowed anyone other than The Commander In Chief to deploy the Army because there is such chapter and verse. The Second Republic accepted the judgement because gave it legitimacy.  

The core of Ziyambi’s rebuttal is that it was not the decision of General Chiwenga and his coArmy Officers alone to deploy the Army then this is making a monkey of Justice Chiweshe’s judgement. He said the Army was justified to stage the coup. Is he going to revise that and said the army and  “collective national effort encompassing the party, ordinary citizens, and patriotic business figures such as Kudakwashe Tagwirei” was justified in staging the coup?

The Second Republic was never going to last because it was built on lies; it does not have any legitimacy, never had. Zanu PF rigged the 2018 and 2023 elections and thus wasted its real chances to redeem itself! 

The people of Zimbabwe were sick to their back teeth of the vote rigging Zanu PF dictatorship and the dictator Robert Mugabe himself. The welcome the coup for no other reason than that is finally booted out the dictator. They should have paused to think of the morning after the coup because it was clear the coup was removing one dictator only to replace him with another dictator. 

 The penny dropped soon enough and many Zimbabweans have regretted going out in the street in support of the military coup. They have name 17 November 2017 “Dzungu Day” (Panic or Folly Day). Of course, it was foolish to celebrate the swapping one dictator for another!

Still, the people have learned an important lesson because when Blessed “Bombshell” Geza called out for the people to support his so-called Geza Revolution seeking to replace Mnangagwa with Chiwenga, only a few heeded the call. As much as millions want to see the back of Mnangagwa they are weary of repeating the 2017 folly of swapping one dictator for another. 

VP Chiwenga is just as corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thug as Mnangagwa and Mugabe. He is making a big song and dance about corruption now only win the people’s support in the factional war within Zanu PF. Whoever prevails we know the nation will still have a dictator! Fcuk that!

"Only 1% of Zimbabwe mining revenue go to taxes." Now we know where Mnangagwa and his cronies get their mountain of looted wealth! W Mukori

 Only 1% of Zimbabwe mining revenues go to taxes

A new report by the SIVIO Institute has raised alarm over weak transparency and minimal community benefits in Zimbabwe's multibillion-dollar mining sector, despite its pivotal role in driving the economy.

Titled "Mining and the Development Agenda: An Overview of Revenue Reporting in the Mining Sector," the study highlights that while mining contributes about 12% to Zimbabwe's GDP and over 75% of export earnings, its overall impact on inclusive development remains marginal.

"Do mining activities and revenues contribute towards widespread economic development?" the report questioned, warning that the industry continues to function "as an enclave in a sea of underemployment, benefiting a few while the majority remain marginalised."

Although Zimbabwe has made strides in improving accountability through initiatives inspired by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the study found that crucial financial data remains inaccessible. "Gaps still exist in the transparency discourse, as some data is not publicly available, raising questions about the actual revenues generated by the industry," it stated.

According to data from the Mining Revenue Monitoring Index (MRMI), between 2017 and 2024, twelve major mining firms generated a combined US$10.02 billion in gross revenues from platinum, gold, diamond, and chrome. Platinum accounted for the largest share at US$7.73 billion, followed by gold at US$1.44 billion.

However, the sector's fiscal contribution remains low, with only 1% of gross revenues (US$1.42 billion) paid as taxes and a mere 2% of net profits allocated to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes. "The CSR contribution remains relatively small compared to the substantial revenues generated by the sector," the report said, describing this as a "missed opportunity for development in mining-affected communities."

The report praised Zimplats and Caledonia Blanket Mine for their transparency and consistency in reporting CSR investments. It noted that Zimplats has invested around US$30 million in CSR initiatives, while Caledonia has supported healthcare and community development projects in Gwanda District.

Despite these positive examples, SIVIO said the mining sector remains "complex, characterised by competing interests and, at times, borderline criminal accounting methods." The think tank urged the government to strengthen oversight, enhance public access to mining data, and ensure greater accountability.

"Zimbabwe must invest in policies focused on improving revenue accountability and transparency," the report recommended, calling for Parliament and the Auditor General's Office to play a central role in monitoring mining revenues and CSR allocations.

SIVIO concluded that while mining remains a cornerstone of Zimbabwe's economy, stronger governance and citizen participation are essential to ensure the country's mineral wealth benefits all Zimbabweans.

"There is a need for communities to hold companies and the government accountable to ensure that the industry accelerates development," the institute emphasized.

So a misery 1% is collected as tax and 99.9% of the population have to share that whilst the 0.1% have the 99% of the money - this is looting at a grand scale. The real tragedy is the looted wealth is wasted on leisure, luxuries and, worst of all, in corrupting the nation’s institutions for the selfish purpose of keeping the regime in power at all cost. 

Meanwhile the nation’s economic is in ruins and millions of our people now live in abject poverty. 

The nation has had many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship with the best chance coming during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. And we have wasted them all. With each passing day Zanu PF has grown stronger financially and politically and today the regime is on the threshold of transforming from a de factor one party dictatorship into one man dictatorship with absolute power. What a nightmare! 

Postponing the elections to 2035 will end "scourge of disputed elections" argue Professor J Moyo. Bulls**t! W Mukori

 “Zimbabwe’s Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, a former army general who led the 2017 coup that ousted long-time leader Robert Mugabe, has accused his exiled political rival Professor Jonathan Moyo of treasonous activities for allegedly writing a secret document proposing sweeping political reforms - including the postponement of the 2028 elections to 2035.

The accusations come on the eve of the ruling Zanu-PF's annual conference in Mutare, set to run from 13–18 October, amid an intensifying succession struggle between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Chiwenga - a contest that could further destabilise Zimbabwe politically and economically, with ripple effects across the region.

Leaked Document at the Heart of the Storm

According to a confidential document presented to Mnangagwa and the Zanu-PF presidium - the party's top five leadership - as well as the Politburo on 17 September in Harare, Chiwenga accuses Moyo of penning a proposal titled "Breaking Barriers Initiative: Putting Zimbabwe First."

Chiwenga claims the document, prepared under the auspices of Parliament, seeks to alter the country's governance system and delay elections until 2035.

The document, seen by The NewsHawks, states its objective as:

"To identify and break chronic toxic barriers to efficient and effective service delivery, infrastructural development and socio-economic progress in Zimbabwe, primarily caused by the scourge of perennially disputed elections and the resultant toxic governance environment.”

Professor Jonathan Moyo has produced some really interesting stuffed but this is thrash! He is arguing that the nation should postpone elections until 2035 “to identify and break chronic toxic barriers to efficient and effective service delivery, infrastructural development and socio-economic progress in Zimbabwe, primarily caused by the scourge of perennially disputed elections and the resultant toxic governance environment.” 

Here are some of the reasons why this proposal is nonsense:

1. 1) the scourge of perennial disputed elections is a man-made problem. Caused by the ruling party, Zanu PF, who have rigged elections ever since the country’s independence in 1980. Zanu PF thugs believe they have the divine right to rule the country and what better way to secure that right than to rig elections. 

MDC/CCC, the main opposition, have failed to implement even one token democratic reform to end the Zanu PF dictatorship even when they had the golden opportunity to do so, during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. And ever since the GNU debacle they have conned the nation to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering for the same reasons they failed to implement reforms - breathtaking incompetence and greed. 

Postponing of elections will not guarantee 2035 elections will finally be free, fair and credible and thus end the scourge of rigged elections because Zanu PF will still refuse to reform itself out of power and the opposition leaders will still be breathtakingly corrupt, incompetent and greedy!

1. 2) the principal beneficiaries of postponed elections will be the incumbent councillors, MPs, senators, president and his cabinet. If the truth be told these are the individuals are responsible for the failed service deliveries because they are corrupt and incompetent. 

Postponing the elections will only be rewarding them for their failures and give them more time to loot!

1. 3) We already know the root cause of Zimbabwe’s failure political system is Zanu PF thugs’ idiotic belief that they have the divine right to govern the country. MDC leaders had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and put an end to this political nonsense. They sold out. All we need is another GNU and a second chance to get the reforms implemented. 

If Chamisa & co. had not conned million of their brain dead followers to participate in flawed 2023 elections both SADC and AU would have denied Zanu PF legitimacy since they bothy condemned the election process as flawed and illegal. We have been warned of the folly of participating in flawed elections in our millions would give the process legitimacy but continue to ignore the warning

Just because Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC fiends sold out on reforms does not mean we do not need the reforms implemented much less that we do not have competent men and women who will implement them. This is not rocket science! 

Chamisa left politics, why has "capable" leaders failed to fill the void and deliver real change? W Mukori

 “What is important now is that Chamisa is not a leader of any political party now. He has left a gap for those capable to fill the gap. Since the day he left being the leader of any political party to this day, l am not seeing anyone who seems to be interested in filling that void and doing things differently.

Out of more that 15 million people in the country, why is that no one is coming out and show how best he/she can be in doing things differently from how Chamisa was doing.

Vese vanozviti vano gona chaizvo vano ngoti dai Chamisa akaita this and that they are not even coming out and take the lead in doing what they wanted Chamisa to do. Muri kutyei?”

Let us agree on two simple realities:

1. 1) that Chamisa has proven to be corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless

1. 2) that the evidence that Chamisa is corrupt, incompetent, a liar and a conman was there all along, certain before the 2023 elections, and yet he managed to con 2 million to believe his idiotic lie that he plugged the vote rigging loop hole. #Godisinit! and they they participated in flawed 2023 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy.

You seem to put a great deal of emphasis on meaningful political change on Chamisa leaving the political stage. “He has left a gap for those capable to fill the gap,” you argue. 

Yes, I agree replacing Chamisa with a competent leader would help but will not guarantee any meaningful political change because as long as we still have 2 million plus brain dead voters who are easily conned to do foolish things we are not out of the woods!

Like it or not, universal suffrage has been a curse for Zimbabwe more so now we have a well established political system in which both the ruling party and opposition are doing everything in their power to keep the people ignorant, naive and gullible. Both Zanu PF and MDC/CCC leaders’ political careers depend on ignorant and easily conned voters. 

Democracy - government OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people - is only possible if the said people are diligent in their sacred duty of holding those in public office to account. For that, the said people must be educated, knowledgeable and objective. An ignorant, naive and gullible electorate given to holding leaders as demigods because of their personality cult mentality; are the very antithesis diligent electorate demanded by democracy. 

Blessed "Bombshell" Geza call for 17 October protest. He called ED2030 bulls***t and has been Mnangagwa gadfly ever since. W Mukori

"Calls for protests from a South African hideout as ZANU-PF heads to Conference. Blessed Geza has once again exposed himself - not as a revolutionary, but as a keyboard coward. As the nation prepares for the ZANU PF Conference on Friday, 17 October 2025, Geza is plotting chaos from across the Limpopo, urging protests instead of facing the people," wrote Peter Chirau in Bulawayo 24.

Mnangagwa and his cronies were very pleased with themselves when the managed to arm-twist the delegates to the Zanu PF October 2024 conference to past Resolution No 1 calling on the party to pull all the stops to ensure Mnangagwa remains in office until 2030, ED2030 was born. Their celebrations were cut short when Blessed “Bombshell” Geza and a handful of his fellow war veterans gave their interview in January 2025 dismissing the ED2030 as “bulls***t!

Of course, it is bulls***t Mnangagwa, his cronies and the whole nation knows that it is bulls***t and that is why is has so much traction even to this day. Mnangagwa was forced to put ED2030 on the back burners whilst he mounted a no expense spared campaign to woo the war veterans, Army officers and other Zanu PF leaders with bribes. Whilst the government has once again failed to provide resources to buy medicine and book, Mnangagwa has squandered billions off dollars buying bicycles, cars and build houses - bribes. 

Mnangagwa has done a lot of in-house cleaning of the party; known Chiwenga loyalists have been fired. Mnangagwa and his team were hoping that the 17 October 2025 Zanu PF Conference will endorse Resolution No. 1, ED2030. They must be seething with anger and frustration that Bombshell has re-emerged to spoil their party. 

Bombshell represents the ED2030 is bulls****t! Mnangagwa know that he cannot shake this because it is true!

Geza’s 31 March 2025 street protest fizzled to nothing because as much as people agreed that ED2030 is bulls***t they also know that Geza’s promise to replace Mnangagwa with Chiwenga will bring no meaningful change. The 2017 coup swapped one dictator for another and it accomplished nothing, the people are loathed to see history repeating itself.