@ D Mafa
“OPEN LETTER TO TENDAI BITI
An Urgent Warning to Zimbabwe
2 June 2026
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Mr. Biti, @BitiTendai
Today, on a public X Spaces, you said it out loud.
You said the Mnangagwa regime is now passing laws to stop the military from disposing of presidents who violate the constitution. You framed that as a problem. You said it as a man who wants the military to retain that power. You are not hiding it anymore. You are peddling it openly to ordinary Zimbabweans who are desperate, disillusioned, and waiting for Chiwenga to act.
Mr. Biti, you just made the case for another coup.
A lawyer. A constitutionalist. A man who has stood in courts and in parliament defending the rule of law. Today you told Zimbabwe that the military should retain the power to remove presidents. Today you told Zimbabwe that Chiwenga should clean up the mess he created. Today you joined the long and shameful list of opposition leaders who have decided that the gun is acceptable when it serves their interests.
ZEM puts this on the record today, 1 June 2026. You said it. Zimbabwe heard it.”
The military did NOT have the constitutional power to remove Mugabe in 2017. The most liberal interpretation of the constitution would say they army had the power to do so if elections were rigged and the president, per se, has no legitimacy. Zimbabwe’s army could never sustain such a position since they were involved in the vote rigging.
CAB3 is pretending to remove the power to stage a military that was never there. The pretence is important in that it creates confusion and uncertainty in the minds of those who are considering another coup.
The 2017 military coup set a dangerous precedence and that cannot be put right without challenging the 2017 George Chiweshe judgement - some thing neither Mnangagwa nor Chiwenga have the guts to do.
Tendai Biti said CAB3 could not go through without two referendums, as we can see, it is sailing through without even one referendum! Zimbabweans should have learned by now not to believe even half of what lawyers/Politicians like Tendai Biti, Chamisa, Coltart, Chinamasa, etc. say especially given their well documented track record as sell outs!
Fcuk me! What else do these sell outs have to do before the penny finally drops that they are not to be trusted nor taken seriously. No wonder we are a failed state!
Ian Smith was right, we are incapable of self government because we have the knack “to walk on sewage and thing it normal!” We have a knack for believing everything our leaders say regardless how stupid the lie and how many times it has been repeated!
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1DxLddEbddYxm
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe cannot access cheap loans from the international banks because we are failing to pay off US$2.7 billion in debt arrears. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has tried to borrow from UK, Germany and Japan to pay the arrears. They all said no and rightly so too!
In a recent leaked audio Kudakwashe Tagwirei is heard boasting about his amassed wealth and that of the other leading looters in the country. He boasted of how Scott Sarupwanya alone was smuggling 1.5 tonnes of gold every month or US$1 billion per year - enough to pay off the arrears in less than three years!
Of course, the UK, Germany, Japan and every Zimbabwean out there with any common sense, especially Finance Minister Ncube; they all know that corruption in Zimbabwe has gone into overdrive. The country does not need a single dollar in loan much less aid. What we need is end the scourge of corruption behind the nation's criminal waste of human and material resources!
https://www.facebook.com/wilbert.mukori.5/videos/2142867376569174
ReplyDeleteZanu PF has denied the rural voters the title deeds to even a few acres of land on which their mud hut stand for selfish political reasons. Ian Smith denied rural povo title deeds for fear economically empowered blacks would demand political empowerment next.
After independence, Zanu PF could not deny the blacks the vote outright and so resorted to hollowing out the vote by denying the rural povo title deed, poor and in fear of Zanu PF reprisals for any dissent much worse for supporting the opposition.
Zanu PF has ruthless imposed its political dominance in the rural areas by making it no go-areas for the opposition and reducing the rural povo to nothing more than medieval serfs forever beholden to overbearing Zanu PF.
@ Isaac
ReplyDeleteRugeje spear headed the 2008 Operation Mavhotera Papi; trust me he was not donating mishonga then! He was punishing the people for daring to reject Zanu PF in the March 2008 elections because he, like Chiwenga and Mnangagwa who commanded the operation, believed Zanu PF has the divine right to rule Zimbabwe.
Chiwenga and Mnangagwa are fighting over which one of them should be the top dog in 2028. They are united in the belief Zanu PF must rule forever and will rig elections and even kill as they did in 2008.
Only a nincompoop like you, Isaac, refuse to see Mnangagwa and Chiwenga are two faces of the same coin! The nation is fighting to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and nincompoops like you are fighting to replace one dictator with another. Fcuk me! No wonder we are a failed state, we just have too many nincompoops amongst us.
@ D Mafa
ReplyDelete"You are correct on every point.
The military never had constitutional power to remove Mugabe. Not under any interpretation of the 2013 Constitution. The argument that they could act because elections were rigged collapses immediately when you note that the same military was instrumental in rigging those elections. You cannot be the disease and the cure simultaneously. The George Chiweshe judgment that retrospectively blessed the 2017 coup was the moment Zimbabwe’s constitutional order was formally captured — and as you correctly identify, neither Mnangagwa nor Chiwenga will ever challenge it because doing so would expose both of them to prosecution for treason and potentially for Gukurahundi.
That judgment is the buried landmine at the centre of Zimbabwean constitutionalism. Everything built on top of it — including CAB3 — is built on a foundation that has never been honestly examined.
Your point about CAB3 creating confusion and uncertainty is equally sharp. The bill does not need to actually grant the military new powers. It simply needs to make people uncertain about what powers exist. Uncertainty suppresses action. If potential coup plotters are unsure whether their intervention would be legally defensible, they hesitate. That hesitation is worth more to Mnangagwa than any specific constitutional clause.
And on Biti and the referendum — you are right and the record is clear. He said two referendums were required. CAB3 is sailing through without one. That gap between what lawyers and politicians say and what they deliver is not incompetence. It is a pattern. It is why ZEM insists on judging leaders by their record and their actions rather than their statements.
Zimbabwe has enough eloquent voices. It needs accountable ones.
Devine Mafa
Chairman, Zambezia Economic Movement
Zemia Republic | 2 June 2026."