“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) 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!
- 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!
- 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!
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Zimbabwe is a failed state precisely because both Zanu PF and their political side-kick MDC/CCC have connived to rig elections denying the people a meaningful say in the governance of the country.
Professor Jonathan Moyo is proposing to the Zanu PF leaders that the nation should postpone 2028 elections to 2035 to "end the scourge of disputed elections".This is a load of bulls**t! Zanu PF will never reform itself out of office nor will the MDC/CCC leaders stop being corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless.
It is bad enough Zanu PF and MDC/CCC leaders have usurped the people's right to free, fair and credible elections; the proposal seeks to take the right away altogether. How does taking away the right, the only right, of the already weakened populous make them strong? The people of Zimbabwe must reject this proposal as their final stand in defence of their right and human dignity!
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/1134034984976098
Zimbabwe is a failed state and the root cause is the failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. 45 years after independence. in this day and age, and we are still failing to hold free and fair elections because millions out there do not any idea what constitutes free and fair elections. Amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inI_wwnCim8
ZANU PF IS SPENDING A STAGGERING US$4 MILLION ON THE FOUR DAY PARTY CONFERENCE ON THE FOOD AND LODGING ALONE. THERE WILL BE FLEET OF NEW US$65 000 TOYOTA FORTUNER, ALL 300 ZANU PF CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS ALONE GOT NEW FORTUNER TWO WEEKS AGO!. AND ALL THIS FROM THE WHOLESALE LOOTING OF THE NATION'S WEALTH WHILST MILLIONS OF ORDINARY ZIMBABWEANS LIVE IN ABJECT POVERTY.
THE ZANU PF RULING ELITE AND THE CRONIES HAVE GROWN FILTHY AT THE EXPENSE OF THE MASSES. THE REGIME HAS DELIBERATELY KEPT THE MASSES ECONOMICAL POOR AND POLITICAL POWERLESS. THIS FAILED POLITICAL SYSTEM MUST BE CHANGED!
@ Chamisa
IF YOU ARE GOING TO BUILD ON TRUTH LET’S START WITH YOUR 2023 LIE ABOUT PLUGGING ALL VOTE RIGGING LOOP HOLES TO CON THE NATION INTO PARTICIPATING IN FLAWED ELECTIONS. THIS WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME YOU HAVE LIED AND CONNED THE NATION. THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION IS ARE YOU GOING TO LIE AND CON THE NATION TO PARTICIPATE IN FLAWED 2028 ELECTIONS?
How is it possible that we have been so thoroughly brain washed we are now incapable of thinking for ourselves. Mnangagwa is failing to buy medicine for our hospitals and blaming it on sanctions and yet he has the money to buy cars for himself and his cronies. We have failed to see the contradiction and so continue to blame sanctions for our suffering! Fcuk me!
In Zimbabwe chaos rules the roost. We even claim to be a democracy although we have never ever held free and fair elections. If I have to pick then we have the worst of the bottom five types! Zimbabwe is the text book case failed state!
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"Until we change Zimbabwe's rotten political culture, nothing will change," said the late Dr Morgan Tsvangirai. He was right. Of course, he was right! The million dollar question is WHY DID HE FAIL TO IMPLEMENT EVEN ONE TOKEN REFORM TO END THE ROTTEN POLITICAL CULTURE DURING THE 2008 TO 2013 GNU WHEN YOU HAD THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO?
"Nothing can be done without the Army!" he argued. Bulls***t!
Mugabe bribed Tsvangirai and his MDC friends with the trappings of high office and they, in turn, forgot about implementing reforms. MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent - nothing to do with the Army!
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/1510872640059849
"Join us Friday 17 October to demand better governance. Soldiers will not shoot anyone!" Blessed Bombshell Geza assured the nation.
Even if the soldiers will shoot to kill, as usual, after all this is a regime that has even boasted of "having degrees in violence". People would risk their very lives in the fight for good governance. Over 40 000 innocent Zimbabweans have lost their lives since independence. And yet many will be loathed to join you on Friday for the simple reason that they see this as a repeat of the 2017 military coup.
People want to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and swapping one dictator for another is insane! Swapping one dictator for another will not end the Zanu PF ruling elite mentality that they have the divine right to rule. "Chinhu chedu!" as you yourself Comrade Geza has often said!
Because we must learn from the past particularly when we continue to repeat the same mistakes and suffer.
@ Chamisa
Are you going to finally tell the nation why MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token reform in 25 years including 5 GNU years and why you lot have been conning the nation to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. Are you going to con the nation to participate in flawed 2028 elections to perpetuate the dictatorship? This is the truth the nation is dying to hear!
@ Anesu
The spirit is willing but the intellect is weak. The Geza revolution seeks to swap one dictator for another, a repeat of the 2017. How any one can view that as progress especially after 45 years of Zanu PF rigging elections beggars belief!
You have failed to imagine how the country can end the curse of rigged elections and so convince yourself repeating the same foolishness of swapping dictators is progress!
Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, in this case expect opposition to win. After 45 years of rigged elections and you still cannot see it! You never will!
@ Sukuzukuduma
“Accountability”? In Zimbabwe’s mining sector, it’s a cruel joke. The system isn’t broken at all - it’s built to enable corruption.
Expose the rot, and you’re punished. Parliament turns a blind eye. Communities get crumbs while elites feast. These loopholes aren’t accidental - they’re invitations. Until whistleblowers are protected and data is public, “holding power to account” is just theatre.”
You have hit the nail on the head; “the system is not broken all - it’s built to enable corruption”. In 2012 the late Edward Chindori Chininga revealed in a parliamentary report that the the diamond mining concession did not compel the hold to declare the quantity and quality of diamonds, to whom the diamonds were sold and for how much and did not have to name any of the beneficiaries of the mining activities. In short, the mining concession was a licence to loot and as you can well imagine everyone wanted the concession but only a very select few ever got it.
Of course, the favoured few did not take kindly to whistleblowers like Chindori-Chininga blubbering about their looting. He died in a freak car accident a few weeks after he released his report. A few stuffed brown envelops and the report disappeared into thin air like the morning mist under the Africa sun!
The mafia are not only the godfathers of corruption they are the ruling elite too. They are above the law and any law saying otherwise they will “fix” it!
As long as Zanu PF continues to enjoy carte blanche powers to rig elections and retain their iron grip on political power; they are using the vast wealth from the looting activities to bankroll the vote rigging juggernaut; nothing will change!
They have ZEC, Police, judiciary and even the opposition in their deep pockets. The people have been brainwashed so much so many hardly know their left hand from the right. It will take some thing special to break Zanu PF mafia’s struggle hold!
@ Mawarire
“Disgruntled former Zanu-PF member and opposition leader Jealousy Mawarire has accused exiled former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo of being part of an alleged plot to abolish Zimbabwe's 2028 general elections and extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule beyond his constitutional term.
The accusations centre on a controversial document titled "Breaking Barriers Initiative," which Mawarire claims outlines plans to amend Section 92 of the Constitution - the provision mandating that the President be elected by universal adult suffrage.
According to Mawarire, the document proposes that future presidents be elected by Parliament rather than by the general electorate, effectively paving the way for Mnangagwa's continued stay in power through a legislative process rather than a popular vote.
"That document talks about - it is an attempt actually - to legally, so to speak, extend the President's term of office by amending Section 92 of the Constitution," said Mawarire. "Section 92 states that the President is to be elected by all registered voters in Zimbabwe.
"The repeal of Section 92, which is being pushed by that document, would then result in a situation where the President would be elected only by Parliament. The thinking is that if that constitutional amendment goes through, it has the legal effect of ending the President's current term," he added.
The claims come amid renewed focus on internal Zanu-PF debates over succession and leadership tenure, particularly as the ruling party convenes its National People's Conference this week. The conference, which began on Tuesday, is expected to revisit resolutions adopted at last year's Bulawayo meeting - among them, a controversial proposal to extend Mnangagwa's leadership beyond 2028.”
Where there is a will there is a way and we know Mnangagwa is hell bent on staying in power and has the absolute power thanks to our corrupt and dysfunctional political system. Zanu PF has managed to stay in power these last 45 years by hook and by crook the regime will not be stopped now!
The tragedy for Zimbabwe is the country has been dragged from one political dog fight for power to another and meanwhile the matters affecting the common people; the economy, service delivery, etc.; have been ignored. 45 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have taken their toll. Zimbabwe is a failed state. And whilst this dog fight for power continues, there is no sign of it ending, the nation will continue to sink deeper and deeper into the man-made hell-on-earth!
@ Lionel
Chignon’s documentary of 2008 elections.
No one expected MDC leaders to implement any democratic reforms before or during the 2008 elections. The golden opportunity to implement reforms was during the GNU. The primary purpose of the GNU was to implement reforms to stop a repeat of the blatant cheating and wanton violence of 2008.
Morgan Tsvangirai & co. failed to get even one token reform implemented during the GNU. Why?
@ Ostallos Siziba
This is rich coming from the individuals who participated in the flawed 2023 elections knowing fully well Zanu PF was rigging and that participating will give the regime legitimacy. Ostallos Siziba and ALL the winning CCC leaders like Fadzayi Mahere, David Coltart, etc.took up their gravy train seats even though SADC and AU elections observers had condemned the 2023 election as flawed and illegal.
The hypocrite now says “We will not accept a criminal extension of al already stolen mandate!” And yet he and his CCC colleagues are the ones who gave Zanu PF that mandate in a silver platter.
“We will resist the 2030 agenda, fearlessly and without compromise!” Read into that “We will participate in yet another flawed 2028 elections and con millions of our followers to do the same on the basis of another lie of opposition winning rigged elections!”
The ancient Greeks , all those 2 500 years ago, were right democracy only works if the people are educated, knowledgeable and objective because it is only then then the people can be trusted to carry out the sacred duty of holding leaders to democratic account. The Chamisa chete chete brigade are the exact opposite; they are ignorant, naive and gullible. So naive and gullible they have a personality cult mentality; they consider Chamisa a demigod who can do no wrong and hence the reason he has conned to believe idiotic lies and to participate in flawed elections.
Chamisa, Siziba and the rest of the MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and liars but that is all water off a duck's back as far as the Chamisa chete chete brigade is concerned.
Mnangagwa is going full steam ahead with his 2030 agenda confident Chamisa and his colleagues will play their part in conning their Chamisa chete chete brigade to participate in the process to give Zanu PF legitimacy as usual!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8zgBhVJlGE
The Chamisa chete chete brigade members have been waiting for directive as to whether they are to join the Geza 17 October 2025 demos. Here are the directives:
"We learned a big lesson in 2017!" said Captain Chamisa.
"We will resist 2030 agenda!" directed Vice Captain Siziba.
The directives are as clear as MUD and all brigade members now know exactly what to do!
Mnangagwa knows that when push comes to shove, he can could on both Chamisa and Siziba to con their brain dead followers to participate in the flawed elections/referendum to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship as they have always done!
Zimbabwe's worst curse is giving ignorant and naive Chamisa chete chete brigade members the vote. They are easily conned and now, in their infantile stupidity, they are holding the nation to ransom!
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When Zimbabwe gained her independence in 1980; we, Zimbabweans, became the masters of our own destiny. Whether we were ready for it or not; it is now all academic.
45 years after independence, Zimbabwe is a failed state, a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous Zanu PF thugs who have rigged elections to stay in power.
The MDC/CCC opposition had many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but they have wasted them all. They have failed to implement even one token reform in 25 years including 5 years in the GNU.
Nations get the government they deserve; we have this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its equally corrupt and incompetent MDC/CCC side-kick. Zimbabwe is a failed state with the economy in ruins and political paralysis. This is the destiny we have arrived at. What a crying shame because this is the last place we wanted to be!
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/1354284056289414
"ZANU PF IS UNFAZED WITH CHIWENGA" read the Herald headline in November 2017. The same paper might just as well have the same headlines today. The headlines did not stop the 2017 military coup just as they will not stop another military coup and/or popular uprising tomorrow or in the near future.
The number one reason for 2017 coup was the growing political instability fuelled by the economic meltdown and hardships. The economic situation has got even worse thanks to the corruption that has gone into overdrive!
Mnangagwa might think that bribing his Zanu PF cronies, Army, war veterans, etc. with proceeds of the looted wealth has insulated him from military coup and popular uprising. He is kidding himself!
Passing Agenda 2030, Resolution No. 1, will remind the nation that they have now lost the right to participate in even rigged elections. They lost "One man one vote" and a now this! The fight is on!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXXu1EK1GEg
Zanu PF is a party of thugs and the ongoing factional war is tearing the party to pieces. As long as the regime retains its iron grip on the nation we cannot deny the regime is dragging us all deeper and deeper into the abyss with it. The challenge is to decouple ourselves from the regime a.s.a.p. We failed to do so following the 2017 military coup and look where it has landed us. We must not repeat that mi8stake ever again.
Chiwenga is standing to stop Mnangagwa's 2030 agenda but only because it suits him FOR NOW. He is not a democrat and will never be our partner! NEVER!
@ Chiwenga
Mnangagwa rigged the elections and how anyone can can him “muzodziwa waMambo” beggars belief.
The biggest hinderance to Zimbabwe’s development is the buffoons who for 45 years and counting have imposed themselves on the nation under the pretext they have the divine right to rule. No one has the divine right to rule Zimbabwe. The mandate to rule must come from the people in a free, fair and election.
To hell with the nincompoops who have aided and abetted Zanu PF by conning the nation to participate in flawed elections under the pretext they have plugged all the vote rigging loop holes.
The clean up of Zimbabwe’s failed political system involves restoring the right of every Zimbabwean to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. This must be settled now and for all times!
@ C Hwende
How long does Chamisa think he can get away with not answering the questions! The issue of failing to deploy election agents and failing to pay those deployed is important. He lied about plugging all vote rigging loop holes and now it is clear he did not even do the common sense thing of deploying election agents. WHY?
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1jMJgRygzeXGL
Chamisa lied about plugging all the vote rigging loop holes to con the nnation to participate in flawed 2023 elections. For months after the elections he and his apologists, notably Change Radio maintained the lie that Chamisa had won the elections and SADC was involved in negotiating with Mnangagwa to handover power or holding fresh elections. All lies!
It turned out that Chamisa failed to deploy election agents, something basic and in his power to do, at all Polling Stations even thou he had received the funding for it. He has since admitted that over 500 Polling Stations or 4.5% of the total had no agents and hundreds more agents were deployed but never paid.
Chamisa is a liar and conman. Period!
Change Radio has produced a new video in which the narrative that Chamisa won 2023 elections, SADC know the "official results", etc., etc. and yet again there is no evidence produced to back this up. This is just a calculated move to lie and con the nation to participate in 2028 elections to perpetuate the Zanu PF dictatorship! This MUST be stopped!
@ Mahere
Mahere, please do not forget that you participated in the flawed 2023 elections knowing fully well that Zanu was rigging the elections and that participating would give the regime legitimacy and perpetuate the people’s suffering. You participated regardless because you also knew that the regime was giving away a few gravy train seats as bait. Even after both SADC and AU election observers condemned the elections you lot still went ahead and took up your gravy train seats.
You are keeping your name in the public eye for one purpose only - so you can participate in the next elections no matter how flawed the process happen to be out of greed.
You are a hypocrite crying buckets of crocodile tears over the people whom you will sell out at the drop of a hat! “We need new leaders!” Yeah right!
@ Taona Nhari
“Wilbert, go back home & join opposition tione zvatingachinje. Handeyi tinobatana neopposition rather than kungoshora iwe usinga ite participate.”
Meaning what? All those in public office are accountable to the people regardless of whether the said people are in the opposition or not.
Why is it that any time a leader is held to account all those who dare to hold the leader to account are subjected to abuse and worse?
It is the sacred duty of ALL citizens to hold those in public office to account. Democracy and good governance depends of ALL citizens carrying out their duty diligently. Zimbabwe is a failed state precisely because millions have neglected their sacred duty. Worst of all, the nincompoops have even taken to abusing the few who have diligently held leaders to account. No wonder we are failed state!
“Wilbert, go back home and join the opposition!” So unless I do that I should not call Chamisa a liar and conman! How is it possible that anyone can be so shallow, thick and slow!
@ BaKudzai
“He did plug them it needs a wise man to see that.”
The spirit is willing but the intellect is weak!
You do not even know what constitutes free, fair and credible elections! You cannot have free and fair elections without something as basic as a verified voters’ roll.
Freeman Chari and his Team Pachedu friends reported of 20 registered voters living in a two-roomed house; voters names moved from one Polling Station to another Polling Station, constituency or deleted without the individual’s knowledge; etc. The voters’ role was in shambles creating infinite vote rigging opportunities for Zanu PF.
How did Chamisa plug the vote rigging loop holes when we did not have a verified voters’ roll? Of course, he was lying that he plugged all vote rigging loop holes.
You are a simpleton who does not know what constitute free and fair elections and so believe everything Chamisa told you. To you Chamisa is a demigod who can do no wrong. How any one can consider a mere mortal a demigod in this day and age beggars belief. Fcuk me!
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/1152281513558164
The nation fought to end white colonial oppression, for one man one vote. It is heartbreaking that millions of Zimbabweans have been denied this basic right to this day, 45 years after independence. Zanu PF youth have been chanting "2030 ED!" knowing fully well that he rigged the 2023 elections and now seeks to extend his illegitimate rule by denying millions the right to participate in rigged elections!
Zimbabwe's worst curse: THAT YESTERYEAR'S LIBERATORS ARE TODAY'S OPPRESSORS. A DAMNING TESTIMONIAL TO OUR FAILURE TO GOVERN OURSELVES!
https://www.youtube.com/live/zi4rXNCD3Yc
ZANU PF IS NOT A DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND HAS NEVER HELD FREE, FAIR AND CREDIBLE ELECTIONS. THE CLAIMS BY CHRISTOPHER MUTSVANGWA THAT IT IS AN EXEMPLARY DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE REGION IS BULLS**T!
INSTEAD OF EDUCATING POVO SO THEY CAN HOLD LEADERS TO ACCOUNT MUTSVANGWA HAS BRAINWASHED THEM SO THE LEADERS GET AWAY WITH MURDER. HE IS JUST A TYPICAL ZANU PF MACHIAVELLIAN PROPAGANDIST WHO WILL SELL THEIR OWN MOTHER FOR A PRICE AND BE PROUD THEY HAD A MOTHER TO SELL!
@ TAONA NHARI
"You have been repeating the same for sometime. We heard what you said. I don’t think you would want to been reminded of something so many times. We know ZANU PF has always rigged elections & don’t need reminding.”
So now you are not concerned that I am not in Zimbabwe and in the opposition; you are concerned about how many times I have said Chamisa is a liar and conman. OK!
You are fuming and frothing that I have repeatedly said Chamisa is a liar and a conman but you are indifferent to the FACT that he is indeed a liar and conman much less to the reality that the nation is stuck in this hell-hole because he conned the nation to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy! I have heard of some people being penny wise but pound foolish - you take the biscuit!
After 45 years of rigged elections and millions of Zimbabweans living in abject poverty because we have failed to end this curse of rigged elections. End the curse of rigged elections is now number one of the nation’s agenda. If nincompoops like you have to be reminded of the folly of believing liars and conmen like Chamisa 10 time every day then you will be reminded 1 000 times! The message will be hammered home and I have the sludge hammer for the purpose!
Fcuk me! No wonder we are a failed state. We have some brain dead nincompoops amongst us, millions of them!
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1jMJgRyWAnMGL
"The only knowledge I claim for myself is that I know nothing!" said Socrates and he is considered one of the wisest man in human history.
Compare and contrast with some of our leaders who claim to know everything and even claim to be divinely inspired and hence their stubborn refusal to be questioned much less held to democratic account. Holding the position of power and authority have made some people bigheaded they consider themselves infallible demigods! Having ignorant, naive and gullible populous who are easily conned has only made a bad situation intolerable!
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