Chitandare Makombe

I've my favorite statement that we use to refer to each other in Zimbabwe "mhuri yeZimbabwe"! We're family!!! Let's cover each other's behind! We've one Zimbabwe! Let's build it together! #OneLoveZimbabwe!

No matter how much you sanitise it, the President cannot be appointing his own sons to critical positions. It’s nepotism. I once attended an interview where one of the interviewers was one of the candidate’s mum. We spent the whole day locked up for transparency but she got the job!

.. @nickmangwana that’s a weak and historically lazy argument from @richardrmahomva. We are not in 1923 Rhodesia, we are in a modern, independent Zimbabwe. You can’t cherry pick colonial-era logic to justify present day constitutional regression. Unless he’s comfortable endorsing the exclusion and disenfranchisement of that era, his position collapses under its own weight. CAB-3 doesn’t modernize democracy, it undermines it simple!

Koo zvatato chena misoro takanga mirira! Dai zvakaitwa muna 1980 chaiyo!

#dandarostreets The Zimbabwean government has unveiled plans to rename more than 60 schools across Harare, targeting colonial-era identities in favor of liberation icons and local figures. Under the proposal, Prince Edward High School would become Murenga Boys, Queen Elizabeth School renamed Sally Mugabe, and Lord Malvern High rebranded as Waterfalls High. The move, affecting at least 20 secondary and over 40 primary schools, is part of a broader push to reshape national identity through education. Follow Our WhatsApp Channel: whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va…

Yes! Zimbabwe/Africa must replace colonial names to reclaim it's lost identity, culture, heritage, and sovereignty. You must reverse the psychological and historical damage of European subjugation. Names have power, they're a foundation of identity and places.

@nickmangwana @richardrmahomva Our own President in 1987 as the State Security Ministers gave reasons why direct selection of the President was the aspiration of the people over indirect election.

𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗔 𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗜𝗡 𝗭𝗜𝗠𝗕𝗔𝗕𝗪𝗘? The other day, I read a very interesting write-up by Brian Mari explaining that we need to focus on CAB3’s inception, who initiated the Bill and interrogate whether the process followed the governance processes laid out in the constitution. In his analysis CAB3 is null and void ab initio (from the beginning) and here is why: 1. The only body in Zimbabwe that can change the Constitution is the Legislature and not Parliament. The two are different in Zimbabwe. 2. The Legislature in Zimbabwe is not Parliament, as is in most other countries. In Zim Legislature is the President and Parliament together (see s117). BUT here is where it gets tricky: 3. When you look at the functions of both Parliament (s118) and the Presidency (s110(1)), neither is given the power to change the Constitution individually, more so initiate a Bill, worse still change Presidential powers. CAB3, in its own inception and intent, changes the prescribed powers and functions of the President in constitution. 4. On this note, many of us have focused on conflict of interest in Cabinet introducing the Bill, instead of questioning whether the Cabinet or Presidency have the authority to initiate a Bill. 5. What this means is that our President or his Cabinet, in initiating Constitutional Amendment Bill 3, have assumed powers that the Constitution never gave them, to initiate a Bill. 6. And when a President or any branch of government exercises power it was not given to them by the Constitution, it is in breach of the constitution. I challenge you to look at the functions of the President and Parliament and show where they get power to initiate a Bill or change Constitution. Even the Legislature changes constitution but does not initiate a Bill to change constitution. 7. The President may sign a Bill, call for an election, refer a Bill to the Constitutional Court, call a referendum, etc., but nowhere is he or the Cabinet empowered to initiate a Bill according to their outlined functions. 8. So this means that CAB3 is null and void ab initio, because Cabinet initiated it without authority. 9. So how did the President and Cabinet initiate CAB3 and all other amendments previously — CABs 1 & 2? In the same way—making them invalid too. So this got me thinking: 10. How should these Bills have been initiated in the first place if we follow Brian’s constitutional governance and authority processes? 11. The only time that the Legislature (President and Parliament together) can change the Constitution is when “a Bill” is initiated by the AUTHORITY from which they derive power. 12. Who is that authority? The people of Zimbabwe, or “vene vayo” are the only ones who can initiate “a Bill” or petition parliament to change legislation or the constitution according to s149. 13. So how should CAB3 Bill have been initiated by vene? 14. Through a party—in this case, the majority party (ZANU PF)—deriving a mandate through resolutions properly made through its internal processes. So in this case, Congress, not Conference, must pass a resolution for ZANU PF MPs to:
(ii) raise a motion in Parliament and get majority vote,
(iii) then President as part of the Legislature with Parliament calls for a referendum see s110(f), since the Legislature may change the Constitution but can’t initiate A Bill,
(iv) the referendum then confirms the AUTHORITY from all Zimbabweans and not just ZANU PF who initiated the petition. This is why the Constitution gives the President and Cabinet the responsibility to call for a referendum on any matter in line with the law. 15. So referendums are not just held only when Constitution stipulates, but they must be held whenever the President needs to confirm that the people want a change to the Constitution. This is why Mugabe called for two referendums in 2000 and 2013 for our constitution, yet the constitutions didn’t mandate it.

CAB3 should be rejigged to "Chiwega Constitutional Amendment". It is an amendment enacted to stop Chiwenga from succeeding Mnangagwa.

After march what next or achievements?

We still have a long way to go as Africans .

If you have to convince a woman that you are the right man for her then she is not the right woman for you. Lady says

Hezekiah‼️

@bla_bidza African Union headquarters, Parliament of Zimbabwe and many more pillars of our independence are financed by foreigners.

China has formally handed over a newly completed US$56.5 million headquarters complex to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abuja, marking one of Beijing’s most significant institutional investments in West Africa. This development raises an important question: could the 15 ECOWAS member states, including Nigeria, not have mobilised the resources to finance and construct such a facility independently?

Watch the same xenophobe with room temperature IQ kneel before white baas Van der Merwe or whatever the name is. He is on his knees, as if he will lick her shoes. Now you see who is running things from behind neat boardrooms 😭

Watch this video carefully of one of the leaders of the xenophobic attacks in South Africa. This is what happens when idiots and numskulls get a microphone, they expose themselves as the ignoramuses they are. But underneath the nonsense lies the fundamental problem of South Africa - high inequality levels. These people think the GDP of South Africa entitles them to a payment of R1 million (~US$63000) a year for each South African while they are chilling at home. They love free stuff. No one told them that GDP is kinda a proxy for actual work / production. They have a warped propensity for free things, both men and women. This is why it’s so easy for them to just take a gun and rob someone. Sad this 😭

This is comedy at its peak!!! South Africa 🇿🇦 will learn today!

Ndiri kunzwa kuda kuvukura!

We’ve normalized broken homes and glorified dysfunction, then act shocked when children grow up angry, bitter, and emotionally unavailable. You cannot raise healthy adults on the scraps of fractured families and expect them to flourish.

@KMarazanye Boycott South Africa & nationalize SA companies across Africa. SA thinks it's an island. Let's fix our countries by retaining profits within our countries. No profit repatriations to SA.

Never take abuse lying down. Take stand as a nation