Kennedy Chikuse

➡️ There is no longer any doubt, after this weekend, that Chivayo owns ZANU PF, and is therefore the defacto Head of Government. All the appearances we've see of him upstaging Chiwenga, ED and Government officials, at event-after-event, spoke LOUDLY - and now the message is indubitable. 🤷🏾‍♂️ ED is a sock puppet, controlled and manipulated through the hazy throes of greed and dementia. The so-called "Revolutionary Party" now proudly and publicly OWNED - lock, stock, and barrel, by thieves. 😄😄 The Comrades have willingly, tongues drooling, sold their history for 30 pieces of silver. 🤦🏾‍♂️ Pathetic.

South African diplomacy is sophisticated business, light years more mature than Zimbabwe’s. Ramaphosa came to Zimbabwe to warn Mnangagwa of an uncertain future if he goes ahead with his plan to extend his term. What they do with that information is their problem

Now we see it clearly. Completely. Undeniably. Photographically. President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in Zimbabwe..No formal government reception. No Cabinet ministers lining the tarmac. No official state protocol. Straight from Pretoria to Precabe Farm Welcomed not by the Vice President. Not by the Foreign Affairs Minister. Not by any constitutionally appointed government official. But by the corrupt elite.Tagwirei and his cartel. In their private capacity. On a private farm. Conducting private business using a South African president as their prop. To our fellow South Africans Hear This. You wonder why Zimbabweans flood your borders. Why they sleep under bridges in Johannesburg. Why they queue at Home Affairs in Pretoria. Why they risk xenophobic violence rather than return home. This is why. Because the system that drives them out just got photographed with the South African president.The corruption that collapses their economy. The constitutional manipulation that extends one man's grip on power. Your president just flew to Zimbabwe and endorsed it. Not with words. With his presence. With his photograph. With his body at Tagwirei's farm table. That photograph tells every Zimbabwean exactly what their suffering is worth to the region's most powerful leader.Nothing. Zimbabwe is in the middle of a constitutional crisis. CAB3 the Constitutional Amendment Bill designed to extend Mnangagwa's term from 5 years to 7 years is being challenged in the Constitutional Court.Section 328(7) stands as a constitutional firewall against this manipulation. The people are resisting. The courts are engaged. The war veterans are watching. And into this moment Ramaphosa arrives.Not to support constitutional democracy Not to stand with the people of Zimbabwe. Not to defend the regional principle that term limits are sacre .But to sit at the farm of the man financing the term extension That is not a state visit. That is an endorsement..To the People of South Africa. Your president Ramaphosa did not go to Zimbabwe for you. He did not go for SADC solidarity. He did not go for bilateral trade that benefits ordinary South Africans. He did not go to strengthen democratic norms in the region.He went for Mnangagwa and his cartel Tagwirei. And in going for criminal Tagwirei he went against every Zimbabwean sleeping rough in Johannesburg tonight. Against every Zimbabwean mother who sent her child across the Limpopo because there was nothing left at home. Against every Zimbabwean who believed that South Africa Mandela's South Africa stood for something beyond the interests of the powerful. South African Parliament must ask questions. Civil society must demand answers. The ANC's own membership who fought apartheid for democratic principles must look at what their president did at Precabe Farm and ask Is this what we bled for? SADC has guidelines on democracy and elections. The African Union has charters on constitutional governance. The region has repeatedly at least rhetorically affirmed that term limit manipulation is a threat to African democratic progress.And then Ramaphosa sits at Precabe Mnangagwa's farm. While Mnangagwa uses that visit those photographs that proximity to tell Zimbabweans "The region endorses me. Africa endorses me. Your resistance is futile." That is what this visit has been weaponised to say. And Ramaphosa whether he intended it or not has handed Mnangagwa and Tagwirei exactly the ammunition they needed.Zimbabweans will continue flooding into South Africa. Not because they want to. Not because they prefer Johannesburg streets to Harare homes.But because the system that expelled them just got photographed with the South African president. Retired Lieutenant General Winston Sigauke Mapuranga.