Amendment 2026 is a decoy, false choice, focus on implementing reforms. Do it and Zanu PF would be history! W Mukori

 To a mouse the choice of black mamba or cobra is a false choice because either snake will kill it. The real  choice for the mouse is DEATH or LIFE. The mouse will instinctively choose life, escape from both black mamba and cobra.

The easily with which Zanu PF has presented the people of Zimbabwe with false choices again and again and the people have again and again fallen for it is unbelievable.

November 2017 military coup presented the nation with the choose of either to support the military coup and Mnangagwa as the new dictator or be stuck with the old dictator Robert Mugabe. There was never any doubt that the two are dictators, snakes, and per se false choice. 

Some people ave argued that there was no other course of action. The mouse would never ever think that way because it recognised both snakes as one choice DEATH and did not need anyone to prompt it to know the alternative to death is LIFE. Of course, nation had an alternative course of action - fight to end the dictatorship.

Indeed, it was the nation's growing restlessness for meaning political change that made the 2017 military coup possible. It is no secret that the economic meltdown, the political oppression and the sheer hopelessness pervading society and the situation unsustainable. The military coup offered to remove Mugabe and relief the growing pressure. I worked the people accepted the false choice. 

Mnangagwa promised to stamp out corruption and hold free and fair elections; he was sugar coating the bitter pill. Corruption under Mugabe was bad under Mnangagwa it has gone into overdrive. Zanu PF blatantly rigged  the 2018 elections.

Mnangagwa got 32% of the vote and the Army top brass (some of whom had resigned their Army post to take up civilian position in government) who pulled all the strings behind ZEC rigged the vote count to ge Mnangagwa over the winning line. "We did not stage the coup to let the opposition win!" the generals argued, according to Jealousy Mawarire, a political insider. 

So within a few months many people realise that what they had thought was a meaningful choice was indeed a false choice. But it was too late to change  and so have lived with he consequences of that foolish decision for 9 years and counting. 

Mnangagwa blatantly rigged the 2023 elections making him illegitimate. He got away with it because Chamisa had conned millions of his followers to participate in the flawed elections. This should have galvanised the nation to end the illegitimacy and/or ensure the folly of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy is never ever repeated again. 

The call for Mnangagwa's stay in office beyond the stipulated maximum two terms, ED2030 Agenda, was thrown in the ring soon after the 2023 elections. The regime knew this would draw all attention from the rigged 2023 elections and the consequences there of. It worked! Another false choice! 

Constitution Amendment 2026 is a follow on to ED2030 Agenda, a decoy to draw the nation's attention from the fact that the regime has not implemented even one token reform since the rigged 2023 elections so the next elections will be no different. Amendment 2026 is proposing even worse electoral fraud than in 2023 and the nation has once again panicked. People are rallying to defend the constitution - the same constitution that has failed to deliver free, fair and credible elections and giving them this illegitimate Mnangagwa dictatorship.

Yet another false choice: either accept the present status quo and get a new Zanu PF dictator or Mnangagwa will remain in power with additional dictatorial powers. 

Ignore amendment 2026 because it is a decoy focus on demanding the implementation of democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections. Indeed, if the reforms had been implemented we would not have this weak and feeble constitution nor the Zanu PF dictatorship!