@ 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."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMlVTn4_Ag
ReplyDeleteThere is no denying that corruption is Zimbabwe has gone into overdrive. When the stories of corruption are being told by MDC/CCC leaders like David Coltart, the Mayor of Bulawayo, the opposition hypocrisy stinks to the high heavens!
Coltart and his MDC/CCC fiends failed to implement even one token democratic reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when they had the best chance ever to do so. Ever since the GNU debacle, they have participated in flawed, "so flawed, so illegally, the only logical step was to withdraw". Participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuate the dictatorship. The soldiered on and participated out of greed.
It is an insult that Coltart & co. should be reminding us how much we are suffering and dying, the consequences of Zanu PF corruption and tyranny rule. When all the suffering and deaths would not be happening if they had fulfilled their promise and implemented the democratic reforms.
It is a tragedy that millions of Zimbabweans continue to believe in Coltart & co. idiotic lies and be conned to participate in flawed elections only to perpetuate their own and the nation's suffering and deaths. MDC/CCC have failed to implement even one reform in 26 years and still millions continue to follow them blindly like sheep to the slaughter!
The usual routine: first Zanu PF thugs cut off your legs and then the President, Mr Nice Guy, gives you a wheelchair gift with all the funfair, media coverage, singing and dancing. Like it or not, you are now helpless and forever a dependent on others especially the undependable regime that chopped off your legs in the first place!
ReplyDeleteThe only question that real matters here is how long are we going to let Zanu PF ride roughshod over us?
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This is just barbarism by a regime that is determined to keep as many Zimbabweans poor and fearful of the regime and denying them title deeds and property rights is one effective way of doing it. Zanu PF wants medieval serfs living in mud huts and forever beholden to the party.
Zanu PF has denied rural people title deeds, a carry over from Smith’s regime and for the same selfish political reason. Many of us have said nothing for 46 years and counting. Many have migrated to town and cities where one can get title deeds - at least in theory. Now Zanu PF has followed. The regime is failing to maintain decent roads but it has the heavy duty plant to demolish decent houses!
The people of Zimbabwe must stand up as one and demand that every Zimbabweans must have their right to own property secured and guaranteed. Stand up as one and the regime will be forced to take you seriously and concede. Rural folk and urban dwellers standing as one!
@ Divine Mafa
ReplyDeleteWilbert.
ZEM could not have said it better.
Zanu PF ichatonga kusvika madhokwi aneranyanga. ZANU-PF will rule until donkeys grow horns. That is not a political slogan. That is a declaration of permanent ownership over a people who never consented to be owned.
Mugabe believed he was ZANU-PF. He ruled for 37 years. Mnangagwa believes he is ZANU-PF. He is now engineering a constitution to prove it. Chiwenga believes it is his turn to be ZANU-PF. He is positioning a coup to claim it.
None of them believe in Zimbabwe. They believe in their turn.
And the MDC and CCC spent 26 years providing the democratic decoration that made the dictatorship look like a contest. Collecting salaries. Attending inaugurations. Filing defective court papers. Reaching for military shortcuts. Performing resistance while negotiating accommodation.
The people of Zimbabwe paid for all of it. In poverty. In exile. In mass graves in Matabeleland. In bullets on the streets of Harare on 1 August 2018. In a constitution being rewritten this week by MPs who were paid $50,000 each to betray the voters who elected them.
Wilbert is right. The curse is not ZANU-PF alone. The curse is the cycle. Liberators becoming oppressors. Oppressors producing the next generation of liberators who become the next generation of oppressors. Round and round. Generation after generation. While ordinary Zimbabweans are born into poverty, live in poverty, and die in poverty in one of the most resource-rich countries on the African continent.
ZEM exists to break that cycle. Not by producing another liberation movement that becomes another oppressor. But by building civilian institutions, constitutional culture, and economic competence that outlast any individual, any party, and any general.
No one has the divine right to rig and rule Zimbabwe. No one is above the law. Those are not slogans. They are the foundation without which nothing else ZEM is building means anything.
Madhokwi haana nyanga. Donkeys do not grow horns. And ZANU-PF will not rule forever.
But it ends when Zimbabweans stop waiting for a new liberator and start building the institutions that make liberation permanent.
That is the work. It starts today.
Devine Mafa
Chairman, Zambezia Economic Movement
Zemia Republic | 3 June 2026
#NoCAB3 #ReferendumNow #ZEM #ZemiaRepublic #CAB3MustFall #Zimbabwe #CivilianRule #MadhokwiHaanaNyanga #ZanuPFMustGo #2Terms5Years #MilitaryOutOfPolitics #Zimbabwe2026 #EndTheCycle #JusticeForZimbabwe #FreeZimbabwe #Wilbert #ZambeziaEconomicMovement."
I agree our curse is the political system that has the nation locked in a vicious cycle of today’s liberators becoming to morrow’s oppressors because they too cannot resist the temptation of seizing absolute power for themselves.
46 years of Zanu PF corruption has fostered a new culture in which corruption is accepted as natural as breathing itself. Zimbabwe society is corrupt to the core and the corrupt are now very powerful financially, politically and in every other way. The corrupt have an invested interest in maintaining the status quo and so bringing about change will not be a walk in the park.
What would you say is the first step, the foundation, in building the new Zimbabwe. The solid foundation, the load bearing fixture, on which the whole edifice will stand and, without it, the whole structure will fall.
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1aKbddBelmQJX
ReplyDeleteZimbabweans were warned that participating in the CAB3 process was foolish. Mnangagwa blatantly rigged 2023 elections and would have no problem rigging Cab3! They did not listen.
Tendai Biti assured the nation that Zanu PF would require 2 referendums before it can pass CAB3 and it will never get the YES vote on the first let alone second. The people believed him and have participated in the amendment process with zeal.
Zanu PF says CAB3 does not require even one referendum.
The public hearing phase of the bill has been an insult. Those against the bill have not only been denied a voice, their resolve to be heard is now being misconstrued as approval. “Of the 470,117 written submissions received, 469,040 were in favour of the Bill, while 1,077 were against it!” it was announced.
CAB3 will pass, Mnangagwa and Zanu PF will have to additional dictatorial powers and the consequences of once again participating in the flawed process to give Zanu PF legitimacy will be felt for generations to come. When will we ever learn!