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@ZimNewsUpdates @dngaru @zanupf_patriots Wording which put down this madness ,is the effect of Amendments which seeks to extend one’s time in office,which /she knows was limited to maximum by those who voted him

MDC President Douglas Mwonzora has dismissed Paul Mangwana’s assertion that the proposed constitutional amendments do not require a referendum, calling it incorrect and misleading. @zanupf_patriots

@Blue_Footy The following players can transform @ChelseaFC into World contenders We need natural foot balance in squad mid sell Enzo bring in Wharton left footed Yildiz Minteh offload Garnacho ,Delap & Gittens Defense Offload Fofana ,Badiashile,Disasi bring Murrilo,difficult Hujsen

Very well said. 🤝

🔴 Ahmed Hossam Mido, former Egypt international, reacts strongly to the AFCON verdict: 🎙️ “Stripping Senegal of the trophy and awarding it to Morocco is the biggest scandal in football history. This will divide Africa and we look like a corrupt continent. Africa deserves better than this.” 🎙️ “There must be a revolution in African football. These people must leave today, not tomorrow.” 🎙️ “I have nothing against Morocco. I love the country and its people. But the reality is, the game was decided on the pitch. Senegal were the best and deserved the title.” 🎙️ “I wanted to congratulate my Moroccan friends… but I cannot congratulate something that was won in offices, not on the field.” 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬? 👀 #AfricanFootball

CAF represents how African governments operate.

"Its an absolute embarrassment for CAF... It's another reason where people will talk down on this competition." Nigel Reo-Coker shares his thoughts on CAF overturning the result of the AFCON final 🗣️

@goal Nonsense the referee instigated the protest Taking away Senegal goal & awarding forced penalty

Moroccan FA reacts to CAF bombshell ruling overturning AFCON final result 🏆🇲🇦 Read full statement 👇 goal.com/en/lists/moroc…

🚨 “THE TROPHY WILL NOT LEAVE THE COUNTRY!” ❌🏆 🇸🇳 Abdoulaye Sow, Secretary General of the Senegalese Federation, reassures the nation: 🗣️ “CAF is rotten — the reactions around the world after this decision show total outrage. 😤 The Federation president is in discussions with all parties involved. THE FIGHT IS FAR FROM OVER. 💼🔥 I want to reassure all Senegalese people. Senegal has the right — and the victory — on its side.”

🚨💣 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄: Senegal have refused to return the AFCON trophy and medals — and they will never consider doing so in the future 😳❌🇸🇳 Despite CAF Articles 83, 84, and 8, Senegal argue these clauses should have been applied during the incident itself. — The federation is reportedly ready to withdraw completely from CAF — They will never participate again if forced to hand back the trophy and medals “Football is for the fans, not for politics.” Saga milestone loading… 🤯

@CAF_Media @dngaru That’s stupid from these @_AfricanUnion like organizations who rob you when you protest the will charge with breach conduct Election are being stolen citizens asked to exhaust internal remedies which are local courts overseen by same people who stole election 😴

The CAF Appeal Board decided that in application of Article 84 of the Regulations of the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), the Senegal National Team is declared to have forfeited the Final Match of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Morocco 2025 (“the Match”), with the result of the Match being recorded as 3–0 in favour of the Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football (FRMF). cafonline.com/news/caf-appea…

@chidawaTee What is being said is not logical extending length to 7 years were it is possible to fit in 2 terms of 3years x2 =2 terms in (1 term length of 7years proposed ) Word limit applies to both length & term intervals that’s why it was stated in distinct figure 5year YOU A TOO PLAYFUL

Can the Constitutional Amendment Bill no.3 be passed without a referendum??

@KMutisi Pamwe tinenge tichi munofunga What is being said is un logical extending length to 7 years were it is possible to fit in 2 3years x2 =terms in (1 term length 7years proposed ) Word limit applies to both length & term intervals that’s why it was stated in distinct figure 5year

This gentleman did it better than most of us… He clearly EXPLAINED the issue of TERM LENGTHS & TERM LIMITS in a simple but BRILLIANT MANNER. For the benefit of those who do not understand Shona, let me try to Anglicise his explanation. x.com/chidawaTee/sta… He said: The law when being interpreted rests on what the LEGISLATURE (or framers of the Constitution) had in mind when they wrote the law. In the case of Zimbabwe, there is a clear distinction between term limits and term lengths. For instance, a person who serves 3 years as President, & get recalled by his party will be deemed to have served a FULL TERM. If he comes back again with a new party & serve 4 years before being recalled, the law will say he has served 2 TERMS and is no longer eligible to serve as president again. This means the person only served a total of 7 years but the law says he served 2 terms. Yet, the same constitution, also allows someone who was president for a year or 2 to serve another 2 five year terms because the 2 years won’t count as a term. In this instance, the person will serve for a total of 12 years but the law will regard it as 2 terms. What this implies the limit imposed by the constitution were not defined in terms RIGIDLY as the number of years but the number of terms which are 2. Changing this requires a referendum. However, changing the length of the term from 5 years to 4 years or from 5 to 7 years doesn’t require a referendum. The number of years (term length) is very different from the number of terms (term limits). Another analogy: A truck owner says to his drivers: Per day, you can only do trips & go home. No one is allowed to do more than 2 trips. As much as the trips are defined in terms of distance from one point to another, a driver going a shorter distance will be deemed to have done the two trips just like the driver who went to a far away place. In this case, the limit imposed by the Truck Owner is THE NUMBER OF TRIPS, not the overall distance travelled. *************** These analogies clearly capture what Zimbabweans are facing now. The framers of the Constitution LEFT ROOM for changing the term length, but they RIGIDLY SET the “number of terms at 2.” You may not like that, but that’s the reality. And as such, there is no legal requirement for a referendum in this case.

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹, 𝗡𝗼 𝟯 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 Clerk of Parliament Mt Hampden. Sir, I am Advocate Eric Taurai Matinenga. I am a citizen of Zimbabwe. I am a registered voter. I have diligently exercised my political right to vote since independence in 1980. I reside at 38 Cleveland road, Greendale, Harare. My rural home is in Murambinda irrigation scheme, Buhera District. In 2008 I was elected and served as Member of Parliament for Buhera West till 2013. I voluntarily declined to stand for re-election in 2013 in the humble but firm belief that a short term in political office opened the way for new ideas and new perspectives. In February 2009 I was appointed Minister of Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs. I served in that portfolio until the dissolution of Parliament in 2013. During my term as Minister, I superintended the arduous negotiation and drafting of what has now become known as the 2013 Constitution, the Constitution. The Constitution was resoundingly approved by over than 96% of the people who voted. It is this Constitution which is subject to attack by Amendment 3 of 2026. These submissions strongly oppose, with respect, the Amendment as retrogressive, anti-people, anti proper governance and unashamedly brings back the Big Man Syndrome which the Constitution sought to banish from our political and governance psyche. HISTORICAL CONTEXT At independence in 1980 Zimbabwe had a constitution crafted at Lancaster House. It was not a popular constitution. It was amended several times . Consistent with emerging independence African countries, an executive president was introduced in the mid 1980s. The late Mugabe, who was president till 2017, became the first executive president, having been prime minister from 1980. The seeds of the Big Man Syndrome were cultivated and refined. Strenuous efforts, even before the executive presidency, were made to turn Zimbabwe into a one-party state. It failed. In the meantime, people were clamouring for a new constitution all the way into the 90s. The National Constitutional Assembly, NCA, took the lead. Government tried to wrest the initiative from the NCA. It introduced a constitution which the people rejected in 2000. The agitation for a new constitution continued. After the inconclusive 2008 election results, the government of national unity which followed was tasked with producing a people driven constitution. It delivered the 2013 Constitution. THE 2013 CONSTITUTION. The 2013 constitution is not perfect. However, it went some long way to curtail and address the scourge of the big man syndrome. It recognizes in the preamble that it is people centered and ‘recognizes the need to entrench democracy , good, transparent and accountable governance and the rule of law’. It introduced a two-term presidency, and, in section 328, ring-fenced the two term limit by requiring two referenda for any amendment seeking to temper with the term limit provision. That this was the understanding of all parties to the negotiation for a new constitution, and overwhelmingly approved in a referendum, was eloquently explained by Mr Patrick Chinamasa at the ZANU PF conference in Mutare (Bulawayo). The people nature of the constitution is again captured in section 88 which reposes executive authority in the people; a legislative authority derived from the power of the people, section 117; and section 162 recognizing that judicial authority is derived from the people. The constitution must be read holistically. The sections cited above are part of a wholesome cocktail of values, rights and of the people anchoring the executive, the legislature, the judiciary and Commissions set therein. Section 328 referred to above is a general amending provision albeit setting procedural and substantive requirements to give effect to certain entrenched provisions.

With respect, what you are presently engaged in cannot plausibly be described as PLURALISM. It has instead collapsed into an undisciplined and repetitive script of toxicity in which the steady escalation of hostile language substitutes for argument. Blocking you, therefore, is not an evasion of critique but a rational boundary that allows space for engagement with those capable of offering disagreement in a respectful and intellectually serious manner. As an academic, you would know,empirically and conceptually, that what you have now become in this bears no resemblance to pluralism, whose very architecture rests on principled contestation, mutual recognition, and the disciplined management of difference. What you display instead is a form of discursive degeneration that pluralism, by its very character and design, neither contains nor legitimizes.

@ParliamentZim IT’s is simple SAY NO TO 2030 ##YOUR SUBORDINATES WILL FINISH WHAT YOU THINK IS UNFINISHED # GVT SUCCESS IS A COLLECTIVE EFFORTS BAD LEADERS WANT TO EXIT OFFICE TO GRAVEYARD AVOIDING MESS THEY CREATED #GO HOME AND REST PRESIDENT @edmnangagwa PARLIAMENTARIANS SEEK RE ELECTION

Addendum to the Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 3 Schedule of Public Hearings

Everytime I see Scott Sakupwanya, I think of this guy.

@CucsmanE What’s wrong with someone who sees you as inconvenience blocks you for their peace of mind 🤧 An adult waffling about being block from a private page 😴🥱Even on Gvt setups innuendos imposing characters get reprimands

I can only imagine what they would do if they had state power🤔

Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa and his supporters want to extend his rule. But the country's retired army generals, war veterans and senior civil servants have written to the Speaker of Parliament to challenge this proposal. enca.com/news/zimbabwe-…

You failed your grade 7 subjects. How come you went on to pass your ordinary level? A failure in the past cannot hinder our future success.NEVER!

@ZimFirstLady @The_Tonga_Queen Thank you mommy for visiting incarcerated citizens .Kundly amplify plight of political prisoners @MadzibabaV like Godfrey Jails shouldn’t be for political opponents leaving real criminals roaming freely @edmnangagwa mustn’t relay on persecution

I visited Chikurubi Maximum Prison where I met Anymore Zvitsva following the horrific murders that left many families in Guruve traumatised and communities shaken. Listening to his confession was deeply disturbing, but it was important for me to understand how such violence could emerge within our society. My thoughts remain with the bereaved families who continue to carry the pain of losing their loved ones. No words can erase that grief. As a nation, we must strengthen our values, protect our communities and support those affected by such tragedies. I pray for healing for the families and peace for the communities still struggling to come to terms with these painful events.