@ Biti
Biti accused ZANU-PF operatives of riding on the credibility of genuine applicants to file phantom litigation designed to be dismissed on technical grounds - thereby creating a legal precedent to justify the term extension without public consent.
"This is the latest chapter in the copybook of Agenda 2030 shenanigans," Biti said. "They have used violence, fear, capture, and coercion to drive this process. Millions have been spent compromising individuals and institutions."
He alleged that vehicles and other resources were being used to entrap political opponents, while ghost social media accounts were deployed to push the narrative. "Zimbabwe is not buying into this. The attempt to mutilate the Constitution represents the biggest existential threat to the Republic," he warned.
Biti emphasized that defending the Constitution is synonymous with defending national dignity and sovereignty. "Everything else starts and ends with constitutionalism and the rule of law. Any contrary position is a betrayal of the values of the liberation struggle," he said.
He further condemned what he termed "fraudulent attempts to manipulate processes by creating ghost litigation," vowing that the opposition would remain vigilant and alert.
His remarks come amid growing concern over alleged judicial complicity and political engineering aimed at extending Mnangagwa's tenure beyond the constitutionally mandated two terms.
In 2008 Mnangagwa and Chiwenga stopped ZEC announcing the March election results and ordered a recount that was to last six weeks. They whittled down Tsvangirai’s 73% vote count to 47% enough to justify a presidential run off.
The two Zanu PF thugs masterminded Operation Mavhotera Papi, a military style operation whose sole purpose was to punish the people of Zimbabwe for daring to reject Zanu PF in the March 2008 vote. War veterans and Zanu PF youth militia as the foot soldiers tasked to harass, destroy property, beat and/or rape. They were backed by the Army, Police, CIO and Prison Services personnel who carried out the heavy duty tasks of abducting and killing.
“What was won by the bullet cannot be undone with a ballot!” thundered Robert Mugabe, publicly endorsing Operation Mavhotera Papi.
Millions of Zimbabweans were forced to go into hiding, hundreds of thousands were severely assaulted. Some had their hands cut-off at the wrist or elbow - “long sleeve or short sleeve” their assailants would ask. Over 500 people were murdered or disappeared.
“Zanu PF has declared war on the people!” complained Morgan Tsvangirai and withdrew from the run-off.
Mugabe won the 2008 run-off, the one-horse race. And ever since Zanu PF has reminded the people the party will revive Operation Mavhotera Papi if they dared reject the party ever again. Operation harvest fear!
SA’s President Thabo Mbeki send out a team to investigate the election violence. One of the Generals on the team broke down into tears. “How can a liberation movement commit such heinous crimes against its own people!” he cried.
It was on the basis of the Generals’ report that the ANC government and the rest of SADC leaders refused to recognise Zanu PF political legitimacy forcing Mugabe to accept the 2008 to 2013 GNU.
The primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms to ensure the blatant cheating wanton violence of the 2008 elections will never be repeated ever again.
Alas! Not even one token democratic reform was implemented in the 5 GNU years. Robert Mugabe bribed Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti and the rest of the MDC leaders with the trappings of high office and with their snouts in the feeding trough their forgot about implementing the reforms.
“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” boasted one Zanu PF crony when asked why MDC leaders were not implementing the democratic reforms during the GNU!
The people of Zimbabwe have risked all to elect Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti and the rest of the MDC leaders these last 25 years on the understanding they will implement all the necessary democratic changes, reforms, to stop Zanu PF rigging elections, They named their party Movement for Democratic Change to underline what they were there for.
The MDC leaders DID have many opportunities to implement the reforms with the best chances coming during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. They have failed to implement even one token reform. Not even one! Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and they forgot about the reforms.
Ever since the GNU debacle the MDC/CCC leaders have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. They knew this and even conned their followers to participate on the basis of idiotic lies that the MDC/CCC would win the rigged elections.
“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.
Biti & co. are hell bent on participating in flawed and illegal 2028 elections just as they have participated in flawed elections in the past. Whilst in the past they have used the idiotic lies such as “plugged all vote rigging loop holes. #Godisinit!” this time they will participate “to stop Zanu PF amending the constitution to accommodate ED 2030!”
The truth is the real big fight is still implementing the reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections - the fight MDC leaders have avoided for the last 25 years including the GNU years. We cannot get any reforms implemented now but can do the next best thing stop participating to give the regime legitimacy.
If Chamisa & co. had not participated in the 2023 election in numbers, 2 million, both SADC and AU would have denied Zanu PF legitimacy. If the opposition does not participate in their millions in 2028 and Zanu PF is denied legitimacy and forced to go into a new GNU, the new GNU will refuse to have Mnangagwa imposed on them.
So even if Mnangagwa had managed to arm-twist this parliament to extend his stay in office beyond 2028. Zanu PF’s failure to get legitimacy in 2028 will stop all that rubbish.
Tendai Biti & co. are hell bent on participating in flawed 2028 elections; stopping them and the millions of their brain dead followers participating is the big challenge!
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True Zanu Pf has destroyed the nation but would the regime still be in power today if MDC/CCC leaders had not sold out on reforms, etc.? No! This is why exposing Chamisa as a liar and conman is important. CHAMISA IS A LIAR AND A CONMAN! this message will be hammered home. Idiots like you will be saying it in your sleep!
@ Lynet
“Never & that’s not just talk….Our determination b4 Congress is still exactly e same . No to 2030.”
Zanu PF has managed to rig elections and stay in power for 45 years and counting because the party has out manoeuvred the opposition again and again and again.
If there is one thing that Zanu PF has always feared the most it is holding free, fair and credible elections. By the late 1990s the party knew it would never win free and fair elections and so it blatantly rigged the elections. The regime has also came up with all manner of excuses and diversions to avoid addressing the issue of rigged elections.
The regime has always insisted that the West imposing the 2001sanctions to punish the party for seizing the farms from the white farmers. The truth is Zanu PF has never ever held free, fair and credible elections dating back to 1980!
If the issue of free and fair election took centre stage the regime force the land issue back on the table by stepping up the farm invasions accompany by some gratuitous wanton violence especially during election times. The farm invasion violence will then spill over into rural constituencies where povo supporters of the opposition will be attacked, accused of supporting regime change and giving the land back to the white farmers.
So instead of the nation focusing on making sure all Zimbabweans enjoyed their right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country it was fight over land. A convenient smoke screen behind which to hind the blatant denial of basic freedoms and rights.
Mnangagwa does not want to discuss that fact that even SADC and AU election observers condemned Zimbabwe’s 2023 election process as flawed and illegal and has used ED2030 Agenda to draw the nation’s attention away the damning report. The regime will committee all manner of dirty tricks to make sure the nation’s attention is focus on ED 2030 at the expense of the real important business of implementing reforms to stop the regime rigging 2028 elections and getting away with it.
Like it or not ED2030 is a decoy the real fight is to get the reform implemented or else refuse to participate in the flawed elections.
@ Munyaradzi
Mnangagwa is a buffoon but still he is smart enough to know there are people with the mentality of a dog; throw a bone at them and they will jump at it and forget everything else.
In 2017 the coup offered to end Mugabe’s rule and the simpletons for got that Mnangagwa was as much a tyrant as murderer as Mugabe himself. Chamisa lied about plugging vote rigging loop holes to con the simpletons to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
ED2030 is a decoy but not to the simpletons! It is a great pity that Zimbabwe has so many nincompoops, millions of them, and they have the vote. The nincompoops are holding the nation to ransom!
"Lets get things clear...no amount of writing will stop zimbos from voting. Zimbos are desperate for a change. It's their right to exercise the right." The nincompoops are even boasting about their foolishness! So it is your right to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation's suffering!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1VXHXVqD9c
The violence and brutal repression before, during and after Tanzania's recent elections rubbles on as the truth suppressed and/or denied comes out. The people of Tanzania and the world at large are shocked at the madness and are hardening in their resolve to have the truth uncovered and to do something to make sure this does not happen ever again in Tanzania or in any other African country.
Africa's dictators are worried and rightly so too; they know they are as guilty as Samia Hassan herself. The resolve to do something about the violence and madness in Tanzania is as much directed at Sania Hassan as at them!After decade of economic chaos and political instability there is a renewed collective will to end this madness and restore the human dignity of Africa and all those who call her home!
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