WHAT IS THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BILL No. 3 REAL ABOUT? HOW MANY ZIMBABWEANS
KNOW WHAT IT IS ABOUT?
The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that even after 46 years of blundering from pillar to post, the penny has not yet dropped. Many of us are still unaware we are a failed state much less do anything about it!
Here is chaos personified! A few moons ago it was Pamberi naChiwenga and now it is Pasi nagudo! So what was heralded a solution a few moons ago is now a danger; if this is not chaos what is?
Why ignorance continues to rule supreme in this day and age speaks volumes of who we are!
Theologians say God kept the Children of Israel in the wilderness for forty years to weed out the slave mentality out that nation. It has been 46 years since independence and yet ignorance remains. All the advantages of history and human progress that should have helped us to learn from our own mistakes and those of others have had no effect. None!
Chiwenga is not against CAB3 not because he knows what it is really about. He does not. He is against it because he believes it is his turn to be top dog just as in 2017 Mnangagwa believed it was his turn to be president. We are just going round and round in circles!
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Chiwenga is against CAB3 because it seeks to let Mnangagwa to stay in power beyond 2028. He believes it is his turn to be the top dog. It is clear he does not understand that Cab3 is just another mile stone down the disastrous road the nation had travelled these last 46 years. Cab3 is just a variation of Gukurahundi massacre.
All Zanu PF has ever cared about is securing absolute power and Gukurahundi massacre was one significant mile stone down the dictatorship. CAB3 is just the latest mile stone. All Chiwenga cares about is getting his share of the absolute power and this is why the bill is irrelevant to what Zimbabwe needed - to end the dictatorship.
@ TMG
“Imhosva here kufuma. Ataura wani kuti every election time aiwana funding uye achiita invest mari yacho. Politics is a business to Chamisa vamwe muchiyaura.”
When did he amass this wealth? More specifically MDC leaders sold out on implementing reforms during the GNU; did the generous bribes from Mugabe have anything to do with their failure to implement even one democratic reform?
Chamisa and his MDC fiends failed to implement even one token reform to stop Zanu PF rigging elections - the very task the people have risked all. Surely, SURELY, Chamisa & co. owe the nation an account for their failure to implement even one token reform in five years of GNU!
“Politics is a business to Chamisa vamwe muchiyaura.” What a stupid excuse to justify the insolence of sell outs who believe they are not accountable to ordinary mortals because they are demigods!
@ Mai Taku
The sheer stupidity of it all is shocking! Are you saying we must not hold Chamisa to account for what he did until we have held Mnangagwa, Chivayo, etc. for what they did? So it is ok for Chamisa & co. to sell out on reforms and con millions to participate in flawed elections for 30 pieces of silver because Mnangagwa is corrupt too!
No wonder we are a failed state now that Mnangagwa has found his Zanu PF team B in all but name we are stuck because we have nincompoops who will never admit MDC/CCC leaders are Zanu PF team B. They are too stupid to see that!
@ Tich
“Zimbabweans need a special doctor to treat a Blamentitis disease. It is cankerous and destroys the fabric of a true Zimbabwean. We no longer have the love that surpasses understanding. We are only full of subjective love. Needs a doctor.”
Nhamo inenharo kunyanya nhamo yokusafunga!
So now you want to justify you personality cult mentality that had you and millions of others conned into participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy because you believed Nelson Chamisa’s idiotic lies. Of course, it is stupid to believe idiotic lies especially given the dire consequences to the whole nation. And yet you still continue to defend Chamisa and justify your own stupidity as “love that surpasses all understanding”. Fcuk me!
How is it possible that anyone can be so dumb, thick and slow? And in this day and age!
https://www.facebook.com/wilbert.mukori.5/videos/1264422995862560
It is true that Mnangagwa was NEVER EVER elected by the people of Zimbabwe. NEVER EVER! He got into State House in 2017 on the cocktail of the November 2017 military coup and went on to blatantly rig the 2018 and 2023 elections. Both SADC and AU election observers have condemned the 2023 election process as flawed and illegal.
It is hearten that some Zimbabweans are rightly outraged that the illegitimate President Mnangagwa is now seeking to extend his stay in office by hook and by crook through this CAB3. Is the outrage too little too late?
No it is not! But only is the awakening is not just a handful of individual and it extends beyond the individual dictator. We should be smart enough to realise change, real change, will come from replacing the Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its corrupt and useless MDC/CCC side-kick with a healthy and functioning democracy. Swapping Mnangagwa for Chiwenga will accomplish nothing just as the 2017 swap accomplished nothing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTlDFMfwyFk
"Chamisa is rich. He cannot be bribed!" This is sweet music to the Chamisa chete chete brigade members who are desperate to hear what they want to hear even when they KNOW it is not true.
Chamisa and his MDC/CCC fiends have failed to implement even one token reform in 26 years including 5 GNU years and have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuated the nation's suffering. If Chamisa & co. were not bribed to blatantly betray the nation, then why did they do it?
Chamisa & co. did receive the E-Class Mercedes Benz, the generous salaries and allowances, the US$4 m mansion for Tsvangirai, etc. It is common knowledge that some of the MDC/CCC leaders farms and other high value assets from the Zanu PF regime. The only question that must be answered then is Was Chamisa one of the beneficiaries of these gifts from Zanu PF?
If so, then Jah Prayzah is bubbling nonsense to say Chamisa cannot be bribed when it was the bribes that made him rich in the first place!
@ KaMalunga
“If he's that rich, how did he make the money before he was a lawyer? Does it mean that donor funds for the party were indeed diverted for personal use as has always been alleged?”
MDC/CCC leaders sold out big time. Our problem is double edged:
1) We have leaders who are corrupt, incompetent and tyrants whose only care is to have absolute power and the wealth that brings. They really do not give a damn about freedom, rights and the suffering of the masses.
2) We have the people who are ignorant, naive and gullible, so naive, so gullible, they believe the leaders are infallible demigod who can do no wrong. The leaders have encouraged this mentality and exploited it for all the world!
There is no doubt that MDC/CCC leaders sold out big time. MDC was launched in 1999 on the promise of implementing the democratic changes to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. The party was named Movement for Democratic Change thus underlining the importance democratic changes. The primary purpose of the 2008 to 2013 GNU was to implement the democratic changes to stop the repeat of the blatant cheating and wanton violence of the 2008 elections.
There are only two explanations why MDC leaders failed to implement even one token reform in five years of the GNU; breathtaking incompetence and corruption. There is a mountain of evidence to support both reasons! Pick you pick!
@ Isaac
"Dear My fellow Zimbabweans
🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️
Today I realized that God is not a fool, and He always has a plan for our future problems. Just imagine if Chiwenga were not alive - what would Zvigananda be doing with Zimbabwe? Just imagine.
Yours Cde Isaac Makomichi."
You should stop evoking the name of God in your idiotic rantings. Was God with Chiwenga when he and Mnangagwa master minded the 2008 Operation Mavhotera Papi too?
Chiwenga is corrupt, incompetent, a vote rigging and murderous thug. Why would God have anything to do with a corrupt and murderous thug?
Why you keep wittering the nonsense of swapping one dictator for another? In 2017 Zimbabwe swapped Mugabe for Mnangagwa and look where that landed us. Only a village idiot would want to repeat the folly of 2017.
Komichi
"Wilbert needs to know an animal called Zanupf. Zanupf doesn't follow constitution. It's a bully with the gun.
Sadc condemned in 2008, 2013 , 2018 and 2023 guided by the Zimbabwe Constitution. Did they listen?"
MDC leaders failed to implement any meaning democratic reforms during the GNU because they are corrupt and incompetent and not because Zanu PF wielded a gun at them!
SADC was the guarantor of the 2009 GPA and if Zanu PF was being disruptive in the implementation of the reforms MDC leaders should have taken this to SADC. They never did.
Indeed, it was SADC, notably SA's Lindiwe Zulu who was constantly nagging MDC leaders to implement the reforms. Mugabe called her "street woman" after MDC leaders told him about her nagging.
MDC leaders sold out big time but only a few of them have ever admitted it. Historic facts do not change just because some one denies the truth!
MDC/CCC leaders have copied many of Zanu PF’s dirty habits including denying all wrong doing and always finding a scapegoat for all their failures even when there is overwhelming evidence it was their fault!
@ Wilfred
“Tsvangirai's house was about $1 m where does the $4m come from Social media spreading inaccurate information.”
Where does the US$1 m come from? The exact figure will probably be never known just as the exact figure of Mugabe’s Blue Roof Manson will never be known. The corrupt are smart enough never to keep records of their criminal activities.
Why are you obsessed with knowing what common sense tells you, you will never know?
What difference will knowing the exact amount make? A US$1m million bribe is as much a bribe as US$4m bribe if the end result is MDC selling out on implementing even one token reforms.
Focus on what matters!
@ Chivayo
Confirms his past relationship with Chiwenga.
Chiwenga is a Zanu PF thug through and through, played his part in the creation of the Zanu PF dictatorship and has had his fair share of the looted wealth. He fell out with Mnangagwa because the latter is refusing to step aside so he can be the top dog too. He has come out fighting against corruption, zvigananda, to gain the support of the naive and gullible who are easily fooled and conned.
In 2017 the naive and gullible swapped one dictator for another and they are ready to repeat the same foolishness again! Fcuk me!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3zHV-8pdIUA
Violence has been part and parcel of Zimbabwe political culture during the fight for our independence and for the last 46 years since. Our failure to deal with the violence each and every time it has happened has added the culture of impunity and thus empowered the thugs to continue.
Divine Mafa, a Zimbabwean write and professional based in USA, speaks to his own experience of the liberation war violence!
Full video available on YouTune, FaceBook and X title: "Zimbabweans have suffered and die by the law, law of violence. When will WE stop the madness?"
@ Bachipeneti
MDC leaders failed to implement the democratic reforms during, the emphasis is on DURING, the GNU. Ever since the GNU debacle they have conned the nation to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship. This has been explained to to you a thousand times and you still fail to comprehend anything!
The problem of sell outs like Chamisa conning the nation again is real as long as there are village idiots like you who have no clue what is going on. This is why the truth of Chamisa being corrupt, incompetent, a liar and a conman must be hammered into you empty heads 100 times a day, 100 000 times a day if need be.
You, Bachipeneti, you are just a village idiot. You believe leaders like Chamisa are demigods who can do no wrong and cannot be held to account. How any one can be so shallow, thick and slow; beggars belief! Zimbabwe would be a much better place if idiots like you were never born. Never!
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yKAPMQkNDzxb
"Ramaphosa told Mnangagwa to stop Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 and drop thoughts of firing VP Chiwenga" reported New Zimbabwe.
Very sound advice and one only hopes that Mnangagwa pays heed! Failure to do either or both could well trigger another military coup. The 2017 military coup accomplished nothing and so will this next one hence the reason why no ordinary Zimbabwean would well come history repeating itself.
Mnangagwa himself should be fearful of another coup because he may well lose more than the presidency!
Some people have argued that the rural people should come out in full force to reject the Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3) because if the bill goes through it will be a serious affront on "One man, one vote!" True enough, the bill will water down the little voting power that the people still had left given Zanu PF carte blanche dictatorial powers.
Still, the masses are largely indifferent to CAB3 because “One man, one vote!” was important to povo but no where near as important as the land issue, especially the right to own title deeds.
Before independence, John Robertson, a renowned Rhodesian/Zimbabwean Economist and Banker, advised Prime Minister Ian Smith of economic advantages of granting rural povo title deeds to even a few acres of land on which their mud huts stand. Smith said NO! He feared that an economically empowered black masses would demand political empowerment next.
Soon after independence, John Robertson gave the same advice to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and he too rejected it for the same selfish political reasons. Zanu PF has continued to deny rural povo title deeds to even one acre of land to this day. The regime’s land redistribution of the seized white farms has benefited the Zanu PF rural elite and the cronies and not the rural povo!
@ Chicken Joint
"Land is still a political tool to control the masses. We also see what is happening to beneficiaries of land reform who are losing what they got from gvt once they become critical of certain policies."
It is a great pity that many Zimbabweans have failed to understand how Zanu PF has turned rural povo into medieval serfs for their own selfish political reasons! Forget CAB3 Zanu PF has always enjoyed carte blanche dictatorial power including its denial of rural folk title deeds of even one acre of land for purpose of controlling the rural voters.
@ Tich
"Mukori huya kuno ndimbogara newe pasi ndichikuonesa zviri pa ground. Come down on the ground like Sellaz. Mugaisi ari pama levels chaiwo.
Iwe urikuvukura uri ikoko wadya omeletti. Huya kuno titaure tichidya maputi kuti uone zvamazvirokwazvo. 🤔🤔🤔"
So kudya maputi as contrast to eating omelette is now a virtue, the pinnacle of human achievement guaranteed to turn everyone green with envy! No wonder we are a failed state; we really have some really stupid people!
A few moons ago you were defending Chamisa’s idiotic lie that he had plugged all Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes used to con millions to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. Now you praising Chiwenga to the high heavens, ignoring Chiwenga is a corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous Zanu PF thug.
"A little learning is a dangerous thing”warned Alexander Pope. He was right, Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have nincompoops and buffoons who know fcuk all and yet think they are God’s blessing to the nation.
We have buffoons who have rigged elections to stay in power for 46 years and counting because they believe they have the divine right to rule Zimbabwe. They are pushing Constitutional Amendment Bill No.3 to extend their stay in power beyond what is stipulated and to give themselves even more dictatorial powers. All under the pretext they will turn round the country’s economic melt down three fold in four years, vision 2030!
Zimbabwe’s curse is to have given the nincompoops the voice and the vote because, in their infantile stupidity, they are the ones keeping the sell outs and buffoons in power. The nincompoops had the “shallow draughts intoxicate the brain”, Pope warned, and are so drunk they now consider them to be Pierian spring from which others come and drink!
“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
A Little Learning
by Alexander Pope
@ Sellar
One does not need to be in Zimbabwe to know that Zanu PF has pointedly refused to give all Zimbabweans in the rural areas title deeds to even one acre of land for the same selfish political reason Ian Smith refused them the same thing!Why being on the ground is even an issue only goes to show the nincompoops’ obsession with trivial issues at the expense of the substantive issues!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITfz67UIAY4
President Cyril Ramaphosa visited Mnangagwa over the weekend, neither party has revealed the purpose of the visit. Some people say it was to advise Mnangagwa to cancel Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3. If this was indeed the case, then it was a wasted trip.
Mnangagwa has already invested a lot of political and economic capital in this project; he cannot withdraw now, not without losing face.
PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA AND HIS ANC GOVERNMENT KNEW THAT ZANU PF RIGGED THE 2023 ELECTIONS AND THEY TURNED A BLIND EYE. THIS ZANU PF MESS IS THEIR MESS - WHAT A MESS! WHATEVER HAPPEN IN ZIMBABWE ANC CANNOT WASH ITS HAND CLEAN! NEVER!
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1qKDzPyEMwwJV
Doug Coltart, remember the white guy who had his mobile phone at CAB3 public hearing and got international media coverage and his father is the CCC Mayor of Bulawayo, has vowed to produce video condemning the evil CAB3 will bring. He KNOWS as does his father that the amendment process is flawed, "so flawed, so illegal, the only logical step is to withdraw," as David Coltart confessed. David did not withdraw in 2013 or ever because he also knew that Zanu PF was giving away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate no matter how flawed and illegal the process got.
Young Coltart is following in his father's foot steps. David Coltart played his part in defending white supremacy - damn the blacks. Father and son have joined forces in defence of the ruling elite, CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name playing for team A to win and to have legitimacy, and once again povo be damned!
@ Tshabangu
Chamisa must account for over US$2 donated by the EU for 2023 elction expenses.
We cannot pretend that there is no corruption in the opposition and it is naive to say the least to pretend that the opposition’s failure to implement even one token reform in 26 years has nothing to do with them being corrupt!
If we are serious about ending the Zanu PF dictatorship then we must start by cleaning the opposition - the people entrusted the task of implementing the democratic reforms.
https://www.facebook.com/wilbert.mukori.5/videos/944969444832741
The right to own property is a fundamental right and to the rural masses, this is the one right that means everything to them. And yet here we are 46 years after independence millions of our people continued to be denied this fundament right.
Land was the NUMBER ONE in the fight to end white colonial rule. Smith denied the rural folk the title deeds to land preferring communal ownership creating Tribal Trust Lands. Ever when Smith was presented with the economic benefits of granting title to even a few acres of land on which the rural folk's mud huts stood. He still refused because he feared economic empowerment would lead to demands for political empowerment.
Zanu PF has denied title deeds to povo for the same selfish political reason! How sickening that title deeds are now being dangled as a carrot to the ruling elite to approve CAB3!
Part 1 of 2
WHY I, AS A WOMAN AND A SCHOLAR, AM ENDORSING CONSTANTINO CHIWENGA FOR PRESIDENT. I do not make political endorsements lightly.
As a political scientist I am trained to analyse, to interrogate, to hold all positions at arm's length and subject them to the cold discipline of evidence. Endorsements are for activists, I was taught. Scholars observe. But there are moments in a nation's history when the scholar's detachment becomes its own form of complicity. When silence in the face of a clear and urgent choice is not neutrality it is abdication.
This is one of those moments.
And so I am setting down my analytical framework for a moment and speaking plainly as a Zimbabwean woman who has studied power, who has watched this republic navigate its most consequential crossroads, and who has arrived through evidence, not emotion at a conclusion I am no longer willing to keep to myself.
Zimbabwe needs Vice President Constantino Chiwenga at the helm. And it needs him now.
I want to be precise about what I mean when I say evidence.
I do not mean proximity to power. I do not mean party affiliation. I do not mean the performance of patriotism that our political culture has elevated into an art form the loudest voice at the rally, the most extravagant praise song, the most theatrical declaration of loyalty.
I mean demonstrated conduct under pressure. I mean institutional behaviour across time. I mean the record that remains when the noise is stripped away.On every one of these measures Vice President Chiwenga's record is remarkable and remarkably consistent. In November 2017 he was offered the presidency. Not metaphorically. Not as a distant possibility. He was offered it directly, by the man whose removal he had just facilitated. He declined. He deferred to hierarchy. He said it was another man's time and stepped back.
In the years since he has watched that decision be repaid with marginalisation. With the gradual contraction of his access and influence. With the quiet rearrangement of the inner circle to exclude the man who made the inner circle possible.
He has not responded with bitterness. He has not responded with public theatrics. He has continued to engage. To speak on substance on health policy, on the exploitation of Zimbabwean workers abroad, on the structural challenges facing this nation while others perform.That is not weakness. That is the rarest quality in African politics:
Discipline in the face of provocation.
Part 2 of 2
Discipline in the face of provocation.
I want to say something that my male colleagues in political science rarely say, because it requires a kind of vulnerability that academic culture does not always reward.
Zimbabwe's women are exhausted.
We are exhausted by leadership that performs strength while delivering chaos. We are exhausted by the big man politics that fills stadiums and empties hospitals. We are exhausted by the patronage culture that builds mansions for the connected while our mothers deliver babies in under-resourced maternity wards.
We are exhausted by Zvigananda. By the brazen, unapologetic looting of a nation's resources by men who have confused proximity to power with entitlement to everything the nation produces.
When I look at what Vice President Chiwenga has said about the exploitation of Zimbabwean health workers abroad nurses, our nurses, leaving not because they want to but because they have no dignified option at home I hear a leader who understands that governance is not abstract. It is the ward that is staffed or understaffed. It is the mother who delivers safely or does not. It is the child who receives treatment or waits.~Chipo Musarurwa Siziba.”
Endorsing Constantino Chiwenga for State Presidency!!!! How anyone, let alone, some calling herself a scholar can ever come up with such a load of bulls***t, beggars belief!
“When silence in the face of a clear and urgent choice is not neutrality it is abdication!” Really?
Chiwenga is corrupt, incompetent and a murderous Zanu PF thug who has played his part in creating and imposing the de facto one party Zanu PF dictatorship that has ruled this nation with an iron fist for the last 46 years. It was Mnangagwa and Chiwenga who orchestrated the 2008 Operation Mavhotera Papi, the electoral coup, in which the ordinary people were punished for having dared to reject Zanu PF in the March 2008 vote. The two thugs should have been send to jail for that and only a fool would want them rewarded with occupying the highest office in the land.
Chiwenga orchestrated the 2017 military coup to replace one dictator with another. The factional war in Zanu PF is over who the next dictator should be.
The nation is not interested is swapping one dictator for another and repeat to foolishness of 2017. What we want is to dismantle the dictatorship and replace it with a healthy and functioning democracy.
After 46 years of blundering from pillar too post and in this day and age one had hoped that the penny has finally dropped that the de facto one party dictatorship system of government has failed. Alas! No!What should be obvious remains a mystery of mysteries to millions of our people including “observing scholars”! Proof one can be celebrated scholar and yet will have no common sense. NONE!
Here is a scholar who does not have the common sense to stop repeating the same foolishness even after 46 years!
@ Marius Shumba
“There is no reason for calling anyone a ‘fool’ because you do not like her choice. We are a democracy, and let us respect each other’s choice. No one, unblemished, is going to come from heaven and govern Zimbabwe.”
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. The person repeating the same thing is, per se, insane. And saying the individual is insane is not insulting them because it is simply stating a fact backed by evidence.
There is a mountain of evidence to prove Chiwenga is corrupt, incompetent, a vote rigging and murderous thug. He was involved in Operation Mavhotera Papi and the 2017 military coup. Only a fool would consider a corrupt, incompetent and murderous thug a suitable candidate for presidential office - that is not insulting the individual because it is backed by facts.
Democratic choice has nothing to do with insanity or foolishness since the insane and fools too have a voice and a vote!
Indeed, Zimbabwe’s worst curse is that we have millions of fools who have the vote and are holding the nation to ransom. Some of the fools are even justifying electing thugs president, swapping one dictator for another, on the idiotic grounds “no one unblemished is going to come from heaven to govern”
If you have common sense then you will have no problem saying what the nation wants. The nation wants peace, justice, economic prosperity and an end to the madness of corruption, rigged elections and tyrannical oppression. You do not need to conduct a nation wide survey for that! You keep coming up with all manner of stupid statements - proof you lack common sense!
"In this group, we must tolerate a diversity of views. Mukori stop pretending to be more righteous than though. Stop it. Now!"
How naive! Chiwenga and Mnangagwa DID master mind 2008 Operation Mavhotera Papi for which they should have been send to jail. Send them to State House instead is foolish - that is a fact. Why you think it is being "self righteous" speaks volumes of your own stupidity! Stop making a complete arse of yourself!
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