Russell Choga

@LynneStactia @emms_emmah @matinyarare He has sh!t for 🧠....hudofo hwakamuwandira he is not strategic at all.

@emms_emmah @matinyarare Weak-Nail has weak brain cells, he doesn’t think 🤔

“He records videos with Presidents and uses them to threaten people.” ~@matinyarare

@Cde_Ostallos Well articulated

In moments where silence becomes convenient and conformity is rewarded, defending constitutionalism becomes both a moral and political duty. We do so because constitutionalism is the foundation upon which any democratic society survives. Once the Constitution ceases to be the supreme law of the land and becomes a tool manipulated for the convenience of those in power, democracy itself is placed in grave danger. The Constitution of Zimbabwe was born out of the aspirations and sacrifices of the people, not the ambitions of a tiny political elite seeking to extend its hold on power. No government has the moral authority to mutilate the national charter for narrow partisan interests while citizens are trapped in deepening suffering. It is both painful and tragic that in a country where millions are struggling to survive, the regime’s priority is not jobs, hospitals, schools, or economic recovery, but constitutional manipulation. Ordinary Zimbabweans are enduring crushing poverty, unemployment, collapsing public healthcare, and a devastating cost of living crisis that has pushed many families into despair. Half the population faces food insecurity, young people are without opportunities, hospitals lack basic medicines, and public services continue to deteriorate before our eyes. At a time when citizens are demanding dignity, accountability, and solutions to the economic crisis, the regime has chosen political self-preservation over national renewal. This is not leadership; it is abandonment of the people. It is for this reason that we have, against the tide and despite intimidation, firmly rejected the proposed constitutional amendment. It does not matter how much power the regime wields or how many voices it seeks to silence. They may persecute citizens, weaponise institutions, and attempt to suppress dissent, but history has no blank pages. It will record that there were those who stood firmly on the side of constitutionalism, democracy, and the will of the people. #NoTo2030

The fight is about liberating Zimbabwe, and anyone who makes a good call we all need to answer. We will answer to @DMwonzora @JamesonTimba to @ProfMadhuku to @BitiTendai to @Zinasuzim @ARTUZ_teachers to @DubekoSibanda and so on for as long as that call is genuine. The audio that have been released are very regrettable especially as we all fight CAB.

WHY CAB3 takes away One Man One Vote by Doug Coltart Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 is a brazen attempt to reverse the gains of the liberation struggle and entrench a system of Minority Rule. In this article, and in the links attached, I am going to explain why. Now, because I have seen many mischaracterisations of my argument, I must state from the outset that my argument is not that an indirect system of election is inherently undemocratic, but rather that the specific system created by #CAB3 is inherently undemocractic. This is because it takes away the people's right to vote for the President and gives it to an undemocratic and unaccountable Parliament while simultanoesly creating an unaccountable President vested with vast unchecked powers. We need to understand CAB3 as a unified scheme, whose clauses operate together to take away #OneManOneVote. It does so in several ways: 1. It increases the President's control over ELECTIONS through taking key electoral functions (voter registration and delimitation) away from ZEC (which, although its execution has not always been up to scratch at least has legal safeguards) and gives them to two bodies appointed by the President (Registrar General and new Delimitation Commission). Rather than addressing the problem of disputed elections and ZEC's lack of independence, it exacerbates the proplem. Using the tools of gerrymandering, a non-independent Delimitation Commission could entrench Minority Rule through the manner in which constituency boundaries are drawn. It already began under ZEC in 2023, but clearly ZEC did not go far enough for the liking of some and so they want to move delimitation to an even less independent body. This means that the Members of Parliament who will be electing the President will NOT have been elected through a democratic process and may well representa a MINORITY of the population. For more: youtube.com/watch?v=u4S_Jy…. 2. It creates a Presidential electoral system that is institutionally vulnerable to capture by kleptocrats whereby someone who has ZERO mandate from the people (is not voted for by the people), who has NEVER been put to the people (is not required to be nominated at the time of going to the Parliamentary election), and may even have been REJECTED by the people (not required to be an MP), could become the President if they convince just 186 Members of Parliament to vote for them (a simple majority of a joint sitting of Parliament). In a political context where those with vast (unexplained) wealth flaunt their influence over State institutions (including brazenly defying the directives of State-institutions e.g. Wicknell "selling" vehicles for $100 in defiance of ZimPaper's directive to its employees), it is not far fetched to say that the Presidentcy may be for sale to the highest bidder. And CAB3 even builds in a monitoring and evaluation mechanism for the kleptocrat who wishes to buy state power: because the vote for the President is NOT required to be by secret ballot (like it is for the Speaker of Parliament) and so the kleptocrat who has bought 186 MPs can actually monitor whether they deliver on what they have been paid to do. Most worryingly of all, it opens the door even to foreign oligarchs or state's to buy a pre-paid President to deliver Zimbabwe's natural resources to them. For more: youtube.com/watch?v=lKCTX8… 3. It makes Parliament undemocratic by packing the upper house of Parliament (the Senate) with Presidential appointees, increasing the Executive's influence over the Legislature and ensuring that the ruling party would only need 30% of the vote to retain control. It does so in two ways: (a) Firstly, it gives the President unfettered power to appoint an additional 10 Senators who are completely unelected. These Senators have ZERO democratic mandate, because they derive their legitimacy from a President who in turn derives his or her legitimacy from the very Parliament they are being appointed to - this circular arragement is absurd! This clause is simply a backdoor to smuggle into Parliament people who were rejected by the people in their party (such as Ziyambi Ziyambi in 2023) or rejected by their constitutents (such as Mthuli Ncube in 2023). (b) Secondly, by stipping traditional leaders of the requirement that they must be non-partisan not only creates an untenable position for their role as quasi-judicial officers in communities, but it also strips them of the proptection that the requirement provided for them to represent their communities interests in the Senate (rather than the interests of their appointing authority, the President). Without that protection, the 18 Chiefs in the Senate essentially become political functionaries of the President. This means that the President would have undue influence over 28 out of 90 Senators, before even a single vote is cast. This means that the President's party only needs to win 18 seats of the Senate's 60 democratically elected seats to gain control of the Senate. These 60 seats in the Senate are elected via proportional representation based on the vote cast for the National Assembly seats. To get those 18 PR Senate seats they need to control the Senate, ZANU PF would only need about 30% of the vote cast for National Assembly MPs. Now, when you combine that with the President's control over the voters roll and delimitation (see point 1), this means that the President's party could retain control of Parliament as a whole (and then by extention the whole of the Executive, and the Judiciary, and the entire State) with a mere 30% of the vote cast at an election. 4. How would they secure control over the Judiciary too? Well, CAB3 answers that too: it gives the President unfettered power to appoint judges. It removes the requirement that the public, you and me, must be involved in the appointment of judges - through public nominations and public interviews and a closed list from the JSC from which the President must choose judges. Instead, it gives all the power to to appoint judges to all-powerful President NOT elected by the people, but by an UNDEMOCRATIC Parliament. This strikes are the core of judicial independence! 5. Scariest of all, is that we may never even have another election again! Why do I say so? Because Parliament has no power to extend its own mandate -- and the Constitution explictly says so -- yet, through CAB3, Parliament is attempting to extend its own mandate from 5 years to 7 years (as well as the mandate of the President and Councilors). The Constitution says incumbants can't benefit from such an extention and that if you want to change that rule it must go to a referendum, but Parliament is attempting to deprive the people from having a say through a referendum using an "ouster clause" which effectively says "We know the Constitution says we can't do this, but we are gonna do it anyway". If they get away with that, what will stop them from extending their own mandate (again) in 2030 without going back to the people (again)? What will stop them from never coming back to the people ever again? Therefore, when taken together, CAB3 creates a system of Minority Rule and is a complete reversal of #OneManOneVote. It strikes at the very core of the ideals of the liberation struggle and it takes us back to a system of governance in which an economic elite hold all the power and wealth to the exclusion of the vast majority of citizens. Our current system far from perfect. We are already deep in a hole of bad governance. But rather than being a ladder (providing solutions to get out of the hole we are in), CAB3 is a jackhammer (taking us even deeper into the depths of bad governance when we thought we had already hit rock bottom)! Zimbabweans must come together from all walks of life to say NO and to cast a VISION of a Zimbabwe in which we ALL have a say, in which we ALL have opportunity, in which we ALL can pursue a better life. Whether you are old or young, a supporter of ZANU PF or the opposition, from urban areas or rural areas, black or white or Shona or Ndebele (or any other ethnic group), we all need to come together for the sake of our nation and for our children's future. Churches need to find their courage, trade unions need to tap into their organising capacity, civil society needs to find its voice. And we, the people of Zimbabwe, need to use our Constitution to defend our Constitution; we need to use our rights to defend our rights. There is HOPE! Our Constitution provides us with all the tools to defend it -- principally, section 59. We must just find the courage to do so. And the God of justice still sits on the throne! He sees, he knows, he'll judge. He will still be on the throne whether we defeat CAB3 or not. And the duty to continue fighting for justice will continue whether we defeat CAB3 or not. God is working out his purposes throughout history -- through people who are willing to listen, and to follow him, to pursue his path of peace, justice and righteousness, no matter the cost. May God give us courage and guidance. #NoToCAB3 #NoTo2030 #ZimSaysNo YES to PEACE! YES to JUSTICE! YES to RESPECT for the PEOPLE!

@CucsmanE @daddyhope Akatengesa mkomana....he can deny it but we all know his position now This is a political hatrick of own goals...coming back from this will be a daunting task

@daddyhope Ndinofara kuti ndakakasika kupepuka😂

The question is this: why did your homeboy not openly support Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 3 instead of attacking those who are defending the Constitution? Why does Jameson Timba need permission from anyone to defend the Constitution? In any democracy, defending the Constitution should be a duty, not something that requires political approval from individuals or factions. If someone disagrees with those opposing Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 3, then they should come out openly and defend the bill itself instead of attacking citizens and political actors who are resisting what they believe is an assault on constitutionalism.

A president who vanishes without telling the nation, sneaks back under the cover of darkness, & brags about it is telling us exactly what he wants to be, a king, not an accountable leader. Zimbabwe didn’t liberate itself so one man could cosplay royalty while dodging transparency

Mr President @CyrilRamaphosa — if you endorse Emmerson Mnangagwa and his cartel's plans to capture the Zimbabwean state, even by accident, get ready to receive far more Zimbabweans at Beitbridge. State capture is a phrase you know intimately. You built your authority on opposing it in South Africa. Yet at Mnangagwa's farm you were photographed alongside the very men engineering its replication in Zimbabwe. You face a simple choice. Stay out of our affairs and let Zimbabweans solve this ourselves. Or use your SADC chairmanship to back the rule of law and constitutionalism in Zimbabwe. There is no third option. We have long stopped waiting for SADC, the African Union, or any foreign capital to rescue us. We are on our own. And in a strange way, that knowledge is liberating. The world owes us nothing. The work of liberating Zimbabwe is ours. We are ready for it. You cannot help us by helping those who are suffocating us. Read the full Open Letter ↓ allthingszimbabwe.substack.com/p/open-letter-…

Let me educate you, @duri_n63212. ED is not the nation of Zimbabwe; he is a Zimbabwean citizen who holds the highest office in our country. Because he holds that office in our trust, he is not a permanent feature and is subject to public scrutiny. We reserve the right to hold him accountable. Let that SINK IN !

Our leaders have forgotten the graves of those who sacrificed everything to liberate us. Watch the full documentary on You Tube: WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE BONES OF NEHANDA. THE ZIMBABWEANS WE LEFT BEHIND. youtu.be/1OvYQ5ZzMuQ?si…

CAB3 will not be passed in 3 days because Parliament has been adjourned for two weeks. Why is no one asking why Parliament is adjourned for two weeks yet CAB3 is meant to be fast tracked?

We close the day at a local #bar. A nation's commanding thief gets into a bar, buys all the beer available, and asks people to drink for #free. What the people don't realise is, this is their money stolen from them! They thank the thief and start drinking... Good night!

🔸Love me or hate me, but I’m the real G ,and those who are close to me know that I am kind, loving, caring, and I love my country Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 with all my heart and soul 🫶♥️🤞🇿🇼

NEW EPISODE #OneManOneVote Here's a deep dive into how #CAB3 takes away YOUR right to vote for the President and gives it to a totally undemocratic Parliament. Find out why a kleptocrat only needs to buy off 186 MPs to become President and how ZANU PF (or rather a Zvigananda faction of ZANU PF) would retain power with just 30% of the vote. There is still time to make your submission to Parliament by emailing clerk@parlzim.gov.zw by 18 May. #NoToCAB3 #ZimSaysNo

How #CAB3 takes away YOUR right to vote for the President and gives it to an UNDEMOCRATIC Parliament. #NoToCAB3 #ZimSaysNo What the full episode on YouTube here: youtu.be/lKCTX85KQ3A?si…

@Crispen97922222 @LynneStactia But imbavha kaa kunyepa here? Why cannot you not br principled enough to call a spade a spade

@LynneStactia Team yavo iripairi because of him ....learn to appreciate imwi .....

Highlanders fans singing “ Chivayo lisela” meaning Weak-Nail imbavha yemakoko! 📍

@im_number06 @Am_Blujay Continue hating bro...it eats at YOU 😂🤣😂, high blood pressure will hit YOU, what follows is obvious...😂🤣😂 heart attack. WHY? Coz of hate? You need help...the day you refuse to be under the control of your emotions is the day you regain control of your life. Bookmark this...

@Russ_Wacho @Am_Blujay I hate a liar more than I hate a Zimbabwean.

Daughter Kills Her Mother Over Boyfriend: A devastating incident occurred in Lethlabile block C outside Pretoria over a boyfriend. The daughter stabbed her biological mother after allegedly confronting her daughter over suspicion that her own daughter was sleeping with stepdad. The daughter allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed her mother three times in her neck.she died from her injuries in the hands of her own flesh It is allegedly the daughter was sexually in a relationship with her mother's boyfriend for some time now and the two were spending quality time together neglecting the mother. She killed her so that she can have enough time with him . The police have since arrested the daughter.

@__Vigie @Shadaya_Knight Kurwariwa chaiko 😂🤣😂 Rabbi should stick to cooking slay queens n hoes....tangent yavanorova panhabvu nemusic kaa? Kudhara 😂🤣😂

@Shadaya_Knight Papengwa apa😂😂

Think what eats up the Kendrick Lamar fanbase is the same thing with the Lionel Messi fan base Despite Kendrick "winning" the beef, racking multiple awards & doing "real rap". Just like Messi winning the World Cup, multiple Balon D'ors & being "naturally talented" whatever the fvck that means And somehow Drake is more popular, outsells, dominates streams and the masses consider him a GOAT. Just like Cristiano Ronaldo, is more popular, people follow whatever League he plays & considered the GOAT That's the thing about life, it's not fair, you can't force people to love you

@im_number06 @Am_Blujay The hate you spew is disgusting you 'clean south african' 🤣😂🤣...you'll kill yourself with unnecessary high blood pressure 😂🤣😂....wtf bro? 😂😂😂

@Am_Blujay Letlhabile is in Brits not outside Pretoria wena dirty zimbabwean