Two Years, President Mnangagwa What Exactly Is The Plan? I have spent decades in uniform defending a Zimbabwe I believed in. I have watched governments rise and I have watched them rot. I have held my tongue when discretion demanded it. I am holding it no longer.
Two years. That is the extension President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and the architects of Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 are asking this nation to hand over not in trust, not in partnership, but in blind submission. Two years to do what, precisely? That is the question no one in the corridors of power wants to answer directly. I intend to ask it anyway.
In any functional society, building is the bare minimum of the social contract. In Zimbabwe, we have lowered the bar so far that survival is mistaken for success. Let us be absolutely clear about what is happening here. We are being asked to amend a constitutional framework the supreme law of this republic not because the constitution is broken, but because a political timetable is inconvenient. That is not governance. That is the behaviour of a man who does not trust the people to freely choose him. And if a leader cannot trust the people, why should the people trust the leader?
I have watched, with growing revulsion, the culture of manufactured gratitude that has taken hold in this country. Ministers hold press conferences to announce that a borehole has been drilled in a ward that has been without water for three years. The State media applauds. Party commissars distribute the footage. The President poses for photographs.
A borehole is not an achievement of government. It is the correction of a failure. There is a profound difference, and our inability or unwillingness to draw that distinction is costing us our dignity as a people.
In a normal country, a collapsed power grid or a dry tap is a resignation-level event. In Zimbabwe, it is dismissed as a legacy issue or a shadow cast by sanctions.
In any serious republic in South Korea, in Botswana, in Rwanda a government official who presided over a constituency without functioning sewers for five consecutive years would face parliamentary censure at minimum and electoral annihilation at best. In Zimbabwe, he is promoted. He is given a ministerial vehicle and a new portfolio. And we wonder why nothing changes.
We have normalised brokenness. We have built a political culture so accommodating of failure that the citizenry has been socially conditioned to celebrate the absence of catastrophe as though it were prosperity. The lights were on last night? Wonderful. Praise the President. The tap had water this morning? What a blessing. Four decades of mismanagement sanitised into a daily miracle.
Every week, young Zimbabweans engineers, doctors, agronomists, IT professionals board flights to Johannesburg, London, Auckland, and Dubai. They are not fleeing Zimbabwe because they do not love it. They are fleeing because this government has made it structurally impossible to build anything here.
The supreme irony, which apparently escapes those in ZANU-PF's politburo, is that these same young people are maintaining the very infrastructure in foreign countries that they were denied the right to build at home. Zimbabwean nurses are keeping British hospitals running. Zimbabwean engineers are building the UAE's roads. Zimbabwean accountants are in the boardrooms of Johannesburg banks.
We have reached a point where politicians campaign on potholes, while the continent's brightest minds flee to maintain infrastructure in London and Dubai that they are denied the right to build at home.
ZIMBABWEANS ARE SPEAKING - THE TIME IS NOW! 🔥🇿🇼
In the ghettos, streets and communities of Chitungwiza, everyday Zimbabweans interacted with @BitiTendai, the @cdfzim convenor and delivered one clear, unequivocal message:
AMENDMENT 3 WILL ONLY DEEPEN AND PROLONG OUR SUFFERING!
Rampant corruption, ZANU-PF’s divisive politics, Crushing cost of living, Punitive taxation, Collapsed service delivery, Ruthless political repression,
This is ZANU-PF’s Unilateral Declaration of State Capture through Agenda 2030 Amendment 3.
WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND;
A Sovereign Referendum NOW!
One (Wo)Man, One Vote to be the final decider on Amendment 3.
Zimbabwe was liberated through sweat, blood and unshakeable resolve. Today WE THE PEOPLE are rising again to defend our hard-won freedoms and secure real economic dignity for all.
The spirit of defending OUR constitution lives in OUR hearts and streets!
#NoToAmendment3 #ReferendumNow #NoTo2030 #Gutsaruzhinji #OneManOneVote #ZanuPfMustGo #PeoplePowerZim
Ama2k are finally finding their voice, and we need to listen. While the roots are political, the reality is human: the average Zimbabwean is exhausted. This kid isn't just complaining; she’s describing a survival struggle that has become our 'normal.'🇿🇼
@TPTM@PhiriTofara I had the same experience and the driver was even rough saying munganyanyobvunza $2 iyoyo here. I think they have to be exposed these drivers. To me it wasn’t about whether the amount is big or small but kana wati ukudzosa change yangu dzosa!!!
@n_tad3 @CrimeWatchZim Exactly, our very own people do not stand a chance anymore. Engineers are working as general hands in these Chinese owned companies saka vanhu vadzoke kuzodii kana maChina ariwo ane upper hand. They should address the root cause not kungoti vanhu vadzoke.
@citezw Now you cannot blame Chinese when then loot our minerals. This is what they see on social media, if our own people can do this to us what more of Chinese people 🤦🏽♀️
@BevestZM@DandaroOnline Yes people are desperate for jobs. But on a more serious note, that food is not for human consumption. Woti kunetswa nemaChina woti salary ishoma apa chikafu hachiite futi haah vana vevhu vatambura
@BevestZM@DandaroOnline As it stands the company is providing them with food and they deserve to eat proper meals. If they dont want to provide food let it be known so that employees cater for themselves, its simple. So people should eat rubbish because its a privilege to get food?
@BevestZM@Madorofiya@DandaroOnline So what would one gain by lying about this?? There is no smoke without fire. So these pictures are lies, is that what you are saying?