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@RUMBIEPROPERTIE @edmnangagwa The fisrt three chimurengas were big fails. Just like post independence economic blue prints, they launch another chimurenga which will just pass by like a smell in the wind.

4th Chimurenga 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Hakuna nyika yakadai @edmnangagwa is in his own world! #ZimbabweWillRise

@buster_goldie You forget that Rhodesia was there for only 5% of the population. It was an economy based on unequal distribution of wealth.

Ian Douglas Smith the greatest prophet than your papa.The men was 1000% spot on.

@GeorgeCharamba2 The only plausible covenant is that one of "prosperity to all" , and that one fell through the net long ago. If you cant enrich the liberators, you can never enrich the populace.

Good message this 👏🏿

@gift_mugano @AEDS_ZW @ReserveBankZIM @ZimTreasury Dear Prof . Dont you think you will be more usefull if you present hard data on the optimal mix of: Ideal sizes of Population , Local Market & Export Market. High yield National Investment priorities A 3rd worlder copying 1st world economic blue prints simply does not work.

ZiG Talk with @AEDS_ZW Principal Research Fellow, Dr Nyasha Kaseke. ZIG is our national currency @ReserveBankZIM @ZimTreasury

@ZBCNewsonline Taking the national purse where Rhodesia dared not i.e. private pockets & rural populace (grown 3x since 1980) overwhelmed Treasury & led to increased poverty. Colonialists had 5% of populace to look after & a strong export market. Today we have no local & export markets

VICE President, General (Retired) Dr Constantino Chiwenga has reaffirmed that the sacrifices made during Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle remain the bedrock of the country’s development, calling for unity to safeguard the gains of independence. zbcnews.co.zw/vp-chiwenga-sa…

@nickmangwana @zimsecOFFICIAL You should be telling us how you will get the local education system from ECD to University recognised or accredited worldwide.

“Starting 2027, all schools must offer @zimsecOFFICIAL exams. It will be mandatory” Minister Moyo

@nickmangwana You must also tell Zanu PF that the next move will be to move their congress to 2030

Zimbabwe’s Constitution is evolving #CAB3

@ChatuBellamine Bro. You can never outdo your dad. He did everything. He dissed his own dad, couped Sithole, persistently cheated on his wife, murdered 20k, & another 300 & another 260 , dissapeared some, stole an election, stole farms, flew to Singapore for eye checkups, lost a country.

We, together with Mom, had the opportunity to meet President ED and express our profound gratitude for his unconditional support. He cautioned me against repeating any barbaric acts that could tarnish my dad's legacy. I'm committed to reform and become a well-behaved individual.

@jahman_adamski All the money and cars that he has been dishing out partly belong to Sonja. She should make them part of the divorce settlement as family wealth that was secretly squandered without her consent.

🚨‼️BREAKING Chivayo moves to get Sonya arrested Wicknell isn't fighting the law; he’s fighting the person who triggered it. Trying to get Sonja arrested at Highlands Police Station is a desperate 'Hail Mary' to force her to drop the freeze. When you can’t explain the money, you attack the witness.

@TembaMliswa You display all that is wrong in the country. Is it not a case of gross leadership failure, to protect a corrupt former leader even where evidence is glaring in the form of unexplained cash & property ownership. I am sure that family could pay our international debt if pursued.

Bellarmine is a very lucky young man such that today he gets another chance at life. He should indeed be thankful because ED has been very generous to their family after all that he endured at their hands. The current administration has ignored how they still have multiple farms, some which are leased out, despite the policy position for One Man One Farm and still the boys have failed to utilise that advantage. Personally, he insulted the same President and went to stay in SA but today he is back home again. Any other wise young man would change his behaviour for he has continually exhibited shameful behaviour. The other brother has been involved in drugs and it's staggering considering the legacy which their father left them. Mugabe is an African icon and his legacy deserves better behaviour from these boys. The violence and erratic behaviour should stop. Tofanira kubika doro kumusha kwanaGushungo because mhepo dzacho dzawandisa.

@FaraiMazhindu You are lost. The rural life & all those shit schools you see was the life forced upon 90% of the people by Rhodesians for 90yrs. Those who were in cities were there only because they provided labour which the White Rhodesians could not supply due to their small number.

During colonization and apartheid across most of Africa, native populations lived relatively comfortable lives. The education, healthcare, transport, and economic systems were wells-uited to support their well-being at that time. Townships featured fresh homes, clean streets, electricity, and running water. The standard and quality of that era's infrastructure are evident in the fact that much of it remains in use today, despite receiving no upgrades or development for decades, it remains in good condition. In contrast, school feeding programs, free education, and free healthcare are no longer easily accessible. Securing employment has also become difficult, even for those with extensive qualifications. While industry was once booming, farms thrived, and mines were lucrative, these sectors no longer benefit the public at large. Instead, their wealth has been privatized to benefit specific households rather than serving as national assets. While the political landscape has changed, the tangible erosion of basic services, stable employment, and functioning infrastructure suggests that the daily quality of life and economic security for the average person were substantially more stable in the previous era than they are today.

@CitizenWakura Chinamasa does not any liberation credentials. Time , little of it left will rid us of this poverty creating, kleptocracy promoting, dictatorshsip entrenching, incompetence tolerating, and intellectually degrading liberation credential narrative.

What was his Liberation War Name, and where did he fought! Loud mouth Binman

@RugareENGumbo1 @ZANUPF_Official @ChinamasaPA @mawarirej @GeorgeCharamba2 Chiwenga must make his position publicly known & if he is not ligned, he must resign from gvt & prty structures. It is time for him to show that he is brave & principled soldier & lay his cards on the table. He has failed to stop this in private & hence must support it or quit

Chiwenga should exercise caution and restraint when dealing with ED considering his experience and strategic thinking. Provocation, whether through words or actions, risks undermining both his personal credibility and the stability of leadership, ummm, this isn't the ZanuPF way.

@matigary You of all people should know that there is no point in dressing up oneself in primitive attire and then ride in a rolls royce. Traditions and culture wich have evolved cannot continue to be anchored in primitive loin skin attire and semi nakedness.

How did Mswati end up calling this royal attire? Inspired from Europe? Since when did African kings carry those swords?

@SajeniMapuranga @BlessedGeza @Devro_Amplified @Jamwanda2 @kerinamujati @LynneStactia @CatharineHoey @noto2030 @presmlo10 @mawarirej @MJairosi Wrong. There are no polls in 2028. There is no resistance to the 2030 agenda within Zanu PF structures. Zanu has finally outdone itself as overseers of a banana republic. It's insane but we can't do anything because the only remedy is a revolution which removes & bans Zanu PF

We are going to elections in 2028. As scheduled. As constitutionally mandated. As the people of Zimbabwe are entitled to. Not 2030 Madness. Not after a referendum that nobody asked for. Not after a constitutional amendment that removes the people's right to directly elect their president. Not after the machinery of CAB3 Nonsense has finished doing what it was actually designed to do. 2028. Full stop.When those elections come when the people of Zimbabwe walk into those polling stations with their ballot papers and their sovereign right the ZANU-PF candidate on that ballot will be General Constantino Chiwenga. I do not say this as a wish. I do not say this as a preference. I say it as a political reality that every serious person inside ZANU-PF, inside the security establishment, inside the diplomatic community, and inside the commercial networks that are currently funding CAB3 already knows.They know it. Which is precisely why CAB3 exists. Let me say plainly what CAB3 actually is.I am tired of watching this amendment being debated as though it is a genuine constitutional reform with genuine developmental intent. I am tired of watching grown men and women some of whom have liberation credentials, some of whom know better, all of whom should be ashamed of themselves stand on platforms and tell Zimbabweans that removing the direct election of the president is about Vision 2030 and boreholes and hospital refurbishments. It is not. CAB3 is a machinery deliberately designed, carefully engineered, and expensively financed to stop General Constantino Chiwenga from contesting the 2028 elections and replacing Mnangagwa as President of Zimbabwe and ZANU-PF First Secretary. That is its primary function. Everything else is packaging.Remove the direct election of the president General Chiwenga cannot take his case to the people. Transfer that election to Parliament Parliament can be managed, whipped, pressured, and in the Zimbabwe of 2026, purchased. Restructure constituency delimitation entrench the parliamentary majority that will be used to elect the next president. Extend the current term to 2030 buy two more years to complete the institutional restructuring that will make General Chiwenga's path to power permanently impassable. That is the architecture. That is the plan. That is what CAB3 is. And I will not pretend otherwise. Not for diplomatic courtesy. Not for party loyalty. Not for any consideration that outweighs my obligation to tell the truth.On who is behind this machinery.Let me say the second thing that needs to be said. And I will say it without the careful language that younger men use when they are protecting their futures. CAB3 is a project of cartels. Not a development project. Not a constitutional reform. Not a succession management exercise undertaken in the national interest. A cartel project. Designed by commercial networks that have captured Zimbabwe's economic architecture its foreign currency allocation, its fuel infrastructure, its banking sector, its mining concessions, its construction contracts and that understand, with the clarity of people whose survival depends on the calculation, that their continued access to state resources requires the continued political dominance of the faction that granted them that access. These cartels know what happens when General Chiwenga becomes president. They know that a man who has watched what has been done to Zimbabwe's economy who has seen, from the inside, how state resources have been redirected from national development into private accumulation will not extend to them the same arrangements that currently exist.They are not funding CAB3 because they believe in Vision 2030. They are funding it because they believe in self-preservation.

@matigary The only country in the world were the majority complain about racism against them, and this is 32 yrs after seizing political power.

Guess in which country this looting of a delivery truck is taking place. Just post the name of the country in the replies, I want to see something. Hint: it starts with an S…

@NewsHawksLive Perhaps we are being taken down a road of deceipt. Constantino has no pilitical capital. Zanu could be doing this to get him two poll-less years test run from 2028 to 2030. He then secures easy mandates through delimination of constituencies which favours zanu strongholds.

By Lieutenant General Winston Sigauke Mapuranga General Constantino Chiwenga is the next President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. Not maybe. Not possibly. Not if circumstances permit. Not subject to amendment bills, parliamentary arithmetic, or the preferences of commercial networks that have confused their bank balances with political permanence. Next. Full stop. And let me be equally clear about the timeline. 2028. Elections. As scheduled. As constitutionally mandated. As the people of Zimbabwe are entitled to. Not 2030 nonsense. Not 2031. Not after a referendum that nobody asked for, nobody wants, and that over ninety percent of Zimbabweans have already rejected in their hearts even before the ballot paper is designed. The Constitution of Zimbabwe the same Constitution that CAB3 is designed to mutilate is unambiguous. Section 328 is unambiguous. The two-term limit is unambiguous. The requirement for a referendum to extend a sitting president's term is unambiguous. 2028. Not a day later. On what CAB3 nonsense actually is. I have said this before and I will say it again until it is heard in every corner of this republic. CAB3 is not a development instrument. It is not a continuity agenda. It is not about Vision 2030 or boreholes or solar panels or hospital refurbishments worthy as some of those programmes are.CAB3 is a blocking mechanism. It has one primary political function to prevent General Constantino Chiwenga from ascending to the presidency through the direct popular vote that he would win. Everything else the economic arguments, the development continuity narrative, the liberation history revisionism we heard from Chinamasa is dressing. It is the packaging on a product whose contents are the permanent postponement of Zimbabwe's constitutional succession reality. The architects of CAB3 know that in a free, direct, popular election in 2028, General Chiwenga wins. They know it because the people know it. They know it because the security establishment knows it. They know it because even inside ZANU-PF behind closed doors, away from the cameras, in the conversations that happen between people who trust each other the succession reality has one name.And that name is Gwneral Chiwenga. "You do not spend this much political capital trying to change an election system unless you already know you cannot win under the existing one." On Operation Restore Legacy. November 2017 was not a coup. I will not call it a coup. The courts did not call it a coup. The people who came into the streets in their hundreds of thousands did not call it a coup. They called it liberation. They called it correction. They called it the moment Zimbabwe got a second chance. Operation Restore Legacy made promises. Explicit, public, witnessed promises to the people of Zimbabwe, to the region, to the international community, and to history itself. It promised constitutionalism. It promised the rule of law. It promised that Zimbabwe's democratic institutions would be respected and strengthened. It promised that the era of one-man, permanent, unaccountable rule was over. Every one of those promises is now under assault by CAB3. Let me say that with the full weight of what it means. The men who stood in that television studio on the 15th of November 2017 who read that statement, who put their stars and their freedom on the line, who asked Zimbabwe to trust them those men made a covenant with this nation. That covenant is not dischargeable by gazette notice. It is not amendable by parliamentary majority. It cannot be revised because the political convenience of 2026 conflicts with the political promises of 2017. Operation Restore Legacy is not over. It is not over until constitutionalism is genuinely restored not performed, not simulated, not dressed up in development language while being systematically dismantled.

@eNCA They have always aligned themselves with the Afrikaner. Consistently denying the ruling party their vote has consequences in the long run.

Coloured South Africans were 'not white enough for apartheid, not black enough for democracy'. Ismail Joosub from the FW de Klerk Foundation believes the community has been systematically neglected. Are Coloured people SA’s forgotten community? Tune in to #WeTheNation with @BraDanTMoyane this Sunday at 8pm for more on this discussion. #eNCA #DStv403

@daddyhope The conduct of the police is shameful. But why do all those opposition party lawyers play victim. Are they not the best brains to have this peace of law tested in court for alignment with the constituttion. It is after all the right protest which is being suppressed here.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants to extend his term of office from 2028 to 2030. His term is supposed to end in 2028, and under Zimbabwe’s Constitution he cannot run again after serving for ten years. He wants to serve for 12 years and probably die in office if he can. If it is to have any legitimacy, he must go to the people and make his case, then subject it to a referendum. Citizens must be allowed to debate it openly, in public meetings and through submissions to Parliament. Those in favour of extending the term of office, removing the direct election of the president by the people and handing that power to Parliament, and pushing through the many other changes contained in Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3, are free to campaign and make their case. But the tragedy is that those opposed are being stopped. The government, using the police, is blocking dissent. As you can see from the latest notice banning the Constitutional Defence Forum from meeting in Mutare, there is no level playing field. The CDF leader and convenor, Tendai Biti, was arrested in Mutare a few weeks ago and is on bail for doing exactly what ZANUPF is freely allowed to do everyday. The president must understand this. The moment you silence the opposing side, you destroy the legitimacy of the entire process and make the law discredited. Whatever comes out of it becomes contestable and illegitimate. If he had allowed those against his amendments to engage freely, as his supporters are doing, he could at least claim fairness. Right now, he cannot, the behavior by his supporters and state security institutions barring those opposed have made the whole process contestable by those not only opposed from outside ZANUPF, but those inside too who disagree with it. The second issue is the constitutional prescription of a referendum. The president does not want one, yet the Constitution requires it. That matter is before the courts, and the courts will determine it. But the principle is simple, you cannot rewrite the rules of the game while blocking the other side from speaking, and bending the constitution by removing the referendum. More dangerously, by shutting down dissent, he is creating a pretext, a plausible excuse. If, by any chance, elements within the military decide to intervene, he has handed them an argument. They can legitimately say they stepped in because the constitutional process was being manipulated, because citizens were denied their right to participate, because debate was suppressed, and because a referendum has been blocked. He is opening that door himself. The third reality is uncomfortable but true, and must be said and ventilated. Mnangagwa is going to push these amendments through by any means necessary. The opposition, as it stands, is weak, fragmented, and in many cases compromised. It is not in a position to stop him. The only person with real leverage inside the system is Vice President General Constantine Chiwenga. If Chiwenga does not act, then these amendments are effectively done. The only institution with the capacity to halt this process is the military. If it does nothing, then the outcome is predetermined. There is no point sugarcoating this. We must tell the truth so that when history is written, it reflects what actually happened, how it happened, and why it happened. Even if Chiwenga were to succeed in stopping Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe would still remain under ZANUPF. It would simply be a shift from one faction to another, from Mnangagwa’s faction to Chiwenga’s faction. There is no credible opposition alternative at present. So the reality is as citizens, we have been left with only one alternative, choose which ZANUPF faction is palatable. We have seen this before. In 2017, during the coup, the opposition as a political institution aligned themselves with the military intervention that removed former president Robert Mugabe. Those who opposed it, like Tendai Biti and Dr Alex Magaisa, had no viable alternative to rally behind because the opposition leadership itself supported the military coup process. Urban populations were mobilised into the streets by the official opposition, their safety guaranteed by the military, because there was a shared objective. Once that objective was achieved, the system reset to its default, anti-democratic state. If Mnangagwa succeeds now, the consequences will be long-term. The opposition, as we know it, will be effectively obliterated. Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 removes the direct election of the president by the people and shifts that power to Parliament. At the same time, it weakens key institutions, including those responsible for delimiting constituency boundaries. The result doesn’t need a rocket scientist, it is predictable. Areas where ZANUPF has support will gain more seats, and areas where the opposition has support will be diluted. We are then no longer talking about 2028. If the amendment passes, there will be no election in 2028. We are talking about 2030 and beyond, with power effectively secured for a generation unless something extraordinary happens. That is the reality of Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3. Anything else is denial, deception, or comfort talk. The public has a right to know the truth, and to understand why certain things are happening. There is an unspoken reality in this debate, an ethnic dimension. Some people are quietly supporting this process because they believe it favours those from their own ethnic group. Others are opposing it because they see it as an ethnic project. This cuts across not just ZANUPF, but the opposition as well. I have spoken to former opposition leaders who openly say they will support the amendment because Mnangagwa comes from their ethnic group and it keeps power within that group. Others say they oppose it because it represents ethnic hegemony. These arguments are absurd and deeply regressive, but they are real. And if you ignore them, you fail to understand why certain people are silent, why some are not campaigning publicly, and why others are more vocal than the rest. This is the unfortunate reality in Zimbabwe. In 2026, in a world of AI, technological breakthroughs, and high-speed trains, we are still trapped in primitive ethnic calculations. It is embarrassing, but it is the truth, and it must be confronted without sugarcoating it. Let me end by being clear. If General Constantine Chiwenga does nothing, and if the military does nothing, then President Emmerson Mnangagwa will remain in power until 2030, and possibly beyond. And the opposition, as we have known it over the past two decades, will effectively cease to exist. Zimbabweans must understand this reality because it shapes the choices you will make about your future. The political direction of the next four years will determine how you position your life, your family, and your livelihood. So I will say it again. If Chiwenga does not intervene, and if the military does not act, it is a done deal. Mnangagwa will push through Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3. And once that happens, meaningful opposition will disappear. What will remain are token MPs from a few urban areas, but no real opposition. Even urban councils, which have largely been in opposition hands for two decades, will be taken. What you are witnessing is Zimbabwe coming full circle into a system where outcomes are predetermined, where elections are a formality, and where analysis becomes redundant because the script is already written. If General Constantine Chiwenga does not act, and if the military does not act, and this Constitutional Amendment Bill is passed, that is the end of Chiwenga’s path to the presidency. He will not become president unless he or the military moves to stop this bill. The two are inseparable, they work hand in glove. If that does not happen, then forget about a Chiwenga presidency. Power will remain within Mnangagwa’s camp, and after him, it will simply pass to someone else from his faction. Mark these words. If this amendment becomes law, General Constantine Chiwenga will be relieved of his duties, what we call in journalism, he will be fired. That will be the end of his political career. That is where we are going. Good weekend. Enjoy the sun if you are in England, enjoy the long weekend if you are in South Africa. If you are in Zimbabwe, do what you have to do, the days ahead are dark and life will be economically brutal. Prepare yourself and your family, because the road ahead will not be easy.

@nickmangwana You are changing the length of a term now and in future elections You want the incumbents to benefit from the changes You are scrapping the presidential ballot Those changes are far reaching a warrant a referendum

“Does the Constitution actually require a referendum for the changes being proposed? A careful reading of the Constitution of Zimbabwe (2013) suggests the answer is no. Section 328 is not a vague guideline. It is the Constitution’s procedural backbone for amendments. It sets out a two-track system. First, there are standard amendments. These can be passed by Parliament, provided there is a two-thirds majority in both houses and a 90-day period of public notice. This is not a loophole or a shortcut. It is the default mechanism deliberately built into the Constitution”#CAB3 iol.co.za/sundayindepend…