Mushoriwa issued "a blistering indictment on CAB3, a constitutional regression". Yeah, but to what end and purpose! W Mukori

 @ Edwin Mushoriwa

“On June 9, 2026, the floor of Parliament became the front line for the future of Zimbabwean democracy.

As the government moved to advance Constitutional Amendment Bill 3 (CAB3), Edwin Mushoriwa, the Member of Parliament for Dzivaresekwa, rose not merely to debate a bill, but to issue a blistering indictment of what he termed "constitutional regression".

In a speech that was both a legal defense and a moral plea, Mushoriwa argued that the proposed changes represent a move away from the hard-won gains of the 2013 constitution.

He challenged the government's narrative that the bill seeks to improve governance, asserting instead that it is a transparent effort toward the "accumulation and preservation of political power".

Mushoriwa's critique was particularly sharp regarding the proposal to extend parliamentary terms to 2030, a move he described as an "insult" to the voters of Dzivaresekwa and an infringement on the rights of future political challengers.”

Comrade sellout, please spare us the Judas Iscariot theatrical performances of love! You so-called “blistering indictment of constitution regression” is all meant to give CAB3 legitimacy. Your performance will not stop the bill being passed, that was never meant to be its primary purpose. Never! 

If you and your fellow CCC members wanted to end the Zanu PF dictatorship then you would not have participated in the 2023 elections in the first place. You all knew that participating was futile because:

1. 1) it would not stop Zanu PF rigging and winning because the process was so flawed the regime had all the opportunity to ensure it wins no matter what!

1. 2) you knew participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy because the regimes present the participation as proof the election was free, fair and credible - why would the opposition participate otherwise!

1. 3) Zanu PF has offered a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate no matter how flawed and illegal the process got. It was the same greed that stopped MDC leaders implementing the reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. 

1. 4) MDC/CCC leaders have conned their brain-dead supporters to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and earning themselves the 30 pieces of silver from the regime with the idiotic lies of opposition winning the rigged elections. Chamisa even evoked the name of God Almighty in his lies. “#Godisinit!” became his signature mantra.

1. 5) Both SADC and AU election observers condemned the 2023 Zimbabwe election process as flawed and illegal. Mushoriwa, Coltart, Mahere, Jameson Timba and the rest of the CCC winning candidates stopped SADC and AU denying Zanu PF legitimacy by insisting on taking up their gravy train seats! The fact that many of these leaders lost their seats soon thereafter to the Sengezo Tshabangu recalls, is another story. The damage of giving Zanu PF legitimacy was done by participating in the flawed elections and the winning candidates disregarding SADC and AU condemnation to take up their gravy train seats.

1. 6) the price of participating in these flawed elections was to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship and the nation’s suffering. This CAB3 is just the dictatorship flexing its tyrannical powers and dragging the nation deeper and deeper into the abyss. Mushoriwa & co. are playing their part of participating in the amendment bill process, giving their blistering speeches full of sound and fury signifying nothing. Nothing, that is except giving the process legitimacy. 

All the opposition leaders have known of the six points above. David Coltart confessed of the futility and the opposition greed. 

“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 (2013) 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.

Yes the breathtaking incompetence and greed of the opposition has always had the better of them and hence the reason they have participated in the flawed processes, “so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw”. Incompetence and greed trumping logic! 

MDC/CCC leaders are Zanu PF team B in all but name; playing for team A to win and to have legitimacy. 

The brain-dead opposition supporters have yet to realise they are being conned to participated in flawed processes to perpetuate the dictatorship and their own suffering. Of course, they are brain-dead - how else can one explain why these people have failed to realise that MDC/CCC leaders have not implemented even one token reform in 26 years and counting! 

CAB3 will extend Mnangagwa’s stay in office to 2030 and grant the Zanu dictatorship even more dictatorial powers. The future is grime. There will be a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth! Knowing that all this suffering could have been easily avoided if the MDC/CCC leaders had not connived with the Zanu PF thugs sold out is the heaviest burden to bear.