Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court must invalidate Constitutional Amendment No. 3 because it undermines popular sovereignty and allows those exercising delegated authority to extend their own terms without securing a fresh mandate from the people, Dr Phillan Zamchiya argues.
In this detailed opinion, Zamchiya examines the amendment’s extension of presidential and parliamentary terms, abolition of direct presidential elections and expansion of executive influence.
He warns that constitutional safeguards must restrain not only today’s leaders, but also those who may inherit these expanded powers in the future.
The Constitution belongs to the people, he argues—not those temporarily entrusted with political authority.
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Our #KnowYourRights series begins with home demolitions and the CHITREST judgment on protection against arbitrary eviction.
Read the brief below and scan the QR code for the full judgment.
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How do you expect to lose a man while firing at unarmed defenseless refugees lured to a parade by crooks like Nyathi? You can celebrate good acting but you cant celebrate the horror that ensued. Everybody knows that 84 men wouldn't be a match to 5000 armed fighters. Their status as refugees was known before the attack. You did it anywhere.
Fay Chung is a Zimbabwean liberation war veteran, educationist and former cabinet minister.
Born in March 1941 into a third-generation Chinese-Zimbabwean family, she was raised by her grandparents after her mother, Nguk Sim Lee, died when Fay was three.
Her father, Chu Yao Chung, was a businessman.
Chung joined ZANU in 1973 and went into exile, working in Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique.
During the liberation struggle, she helped establish teacher-training programmes and develop curricula for schools in refugee camps.
After independence, she served as Deputy Secretary for Administration in the Ministry of Education from 1980 to 1988.
She became Minister of Education, Sport and Culture from 1988 to 1993, playing a major role in expanding access to primary and secondary education.
She later served as Minister of National Affairs, Employment Creation and Cooperatives and subsequently held senior education roles at UNICEF and UNESCO.
Chung is the mother of Zimbabwean-British actress and activist Chipo Chung, whose father is liberation veteran and politician Rugare Gumbo.
Her memoir, Re-Living the Second Chimurenga, preserves her first-hand account of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle and post-independence education reforms.
For actor and activist Chipo Chung, there is unique power in being a creative progenitor rather than just an interpretative artist. As she puts it, “Acting is other people’s passions you are involved in as a cog.”
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“The parts I get are usually idiosyncratic, quirky and different because of how I look,” says Chipo Chung, Actor and Activist, reflecting on the roles she has taken throughout her career.
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It’s been three weeks since my book came out and the support has been out of this world 🥹
We’re already preparing for a reprint! I honestly can’t thank you enough 😭
If you haven’t gotten your copy yet, please do 🫣🙏
It’s available in all major bookstores in South Africa, on Takealot and Amazon ZA.
In Bulawayo (+263 77 519 4557) and Harare (Bhuku Store +263 77 930 3621).
As an eBook on Amazon worldwide: https://t.co/q6h4gsfMpe
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From the coalfields of Hwange to the global stage in The Hague!
Zimbabwean MP @molokele has won the 2026 Senator Kimberley Kitching IPAC Human Rights Award, becoming the second recipient of the international honour recognising courage in defending democracy.
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The untold story of Gweshegweshe. . . How a workplace joke in the ‘90s gave birth to one of Zimbabwe’s most recognisable television characters
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