Richard Garwe 🇿🇼

Am a #Zimbabwe Political Analyst, "#Zimbabwes Political Inner Eye". My opinions are my own! I am not a neutral! Simpu!

[Richard Garwe 🇿🇼 @RichardGarwe]

The CURRENT POLITICAL CLIMATE in #Zimbabwe is such that people THINK they should FIGHT if they have differences of IDEAS and POLITICAL inclination. This is the POLITICAL status quo I wish #Zimbabweans should abandon especially after 46 years. We should be able to AGREE
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@bla_bidza The inverse is that #Zimbabweans are demonstrating that they can MANUFACTURE. If I was the minister I would fund them to do things the right way!

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It's ironic how many #Zimbabweans who are involved in extramarital affairs and prostitution don't want a cat to be called pussy!

[Hon. Takudzwa Titus Nyanhanga @SirTitusVeTech]

It’s embarrassing that this is the kind of reporting we’re getting from this outfit.

[Richard Garwe 🇿🇼 @RichardGarwe]

#Zimbabweans DON'T call a cat a pussy!

[ZimLive @zimlive]

Pussy eludes court officials after disrupting murder trial

https://t.co/YStILyQmPP

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ASTRONAUTS ON INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ORDERED TO SHELTER IN SPACECRAFT, PREPARE FOR EVACUATION OVER WORSENING AIR LEAKS ON RUSSIAN SEGMENT - NASA

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How many #ZanuPF supporters meet and talk to Chamisa? Out of a flawed survey he wants a transitional government! Make it make sense!

[Richard Garwe 🇿🇼 @RichardGarwe]

Raj is like a lot of #Zimbabweans I know.

It is important that I ignore them.

[Richard Garwe 🇿🇼 @RichardGarwe]

Temporary Effect: Despite the dramatic initial success, the tumors did eventually regrow in the treated patients.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A single dose of a new cancer drug made a brain tumor almost disappear – in just five days.

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital reported “dramatic and rapid” tumor regression in the first patients treated with a next-generation form of CAR T-cell therapy for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive brain cancers known.

The therapy, called CARv3-TEAM-E, was developed to overcome a major hurdle in treating solid tumors: their ability to hide from the immune system.

The personalized treatment reprograms a patient’s immune cells to attack the tumor, and in one extraordinary case, nearly eliminated the cancer within just five days. This novel therapy is designed to target multiple features of the tumor at once, a strategy that may help overcome the common challenge of treatment resistance in solid tumors like glioblastoma.

Although the tumors eventually returned, the early outcomes were described as unprecedented. One patient saw a 60% reduction in tumor size that lasted for half a year—an impressive result in a cancer known for its aggressiveness.

The trial’s success marks a major step forward for immunotherapy in brain cancer and raises new hopes for long-term control or even a cure. Researchers are now working to refine the treatment and extend its effects, with the ultimate goal of turning a once-terminal diagnosis into a survivable condition.

[Richard Garwe 🇿🇼 @RichardGarwe]

Reminds me of the fireside stories by @adv_fulcrum during the 2018 presidential election challenge by Chamisa! You would think they had a strategy!

[ZVAMAINGA MUHONDO @Muswatadzi]

OF #CAB3: I want to walk you through something. Not the passive, empty commentary of the propagandists. Not the soothing lies about a lawful process sailing through a willing Parliament. The live wire situation. The strategic reality beneath the headlines. The war of attrition that is unfolding while the Cabal's mouthpieces tell you to relax and let democracy take its course.

Ignore them. They are lying to you. What is happening is not normal legislative business. It is a legal encirclement, a race against the clock, and a constitutional siege. Let me lay it out.

PART 1: THE ENCIRCLEMENT

All 210 Members of the National Assembly have been served with Constitutional Court applications by voters from their own constituencies. Let that number settle. 210. Every single MP. This is unprecedented in the history of this Republic. Parliament is no longer merely debating #CAB3. Parliament is the subject of a mass constitutional complaint by the people it claims to represent. The chamber has become the dock.

Each application is filed under Section 85 of the Constitution the citizen's gate to the court. No personal injury is required. No special standing. Only an allegation that a fundamental right has been violated. The right at issue here is the right to democratic participation under Section 67. The voter is saying: my MP is about to vote for an amendment that extends their own term & the President's term without my consent, in defiance of Section 328(7). That violates the Constitution. And by violating the Constitution, it violates my right to be governed under a constitutional order.

The procedure is Rule 26(2) of the Constitutional Court Rules 2025. The MP has 10 days to file a Notice of Opposition. If they do not - if they ignore the papers, if they take the bribe & 2 stay quiet - the application proceeds unopposed. The court may grant the order without hearing them. And that order will declare that the MP's participation in #CAB3 is unconstitutional.

Now understand the consequence. Once that order exists, voting for #CAB3 is no longer a political choice. It is contempt of court. It is a personal legal catastrophe dressed in a parliamentary vote. The MP who defaults cannot simply proceed as though nothing has happened. They are legally barred. And if they vote anyway, they face the full weight of a Constitutional Court contempt finding.

PART 2: THE ATTRITION WAR

The strategic genius of this intervention is multiplication. The Cabal's legal machinery, formidable as it is, funded as it is, lawyered as it is - was built to fight one battle. A single challenge in the ConCourt. Perhaps two or three. The full resources of the state legal apparatus, deployed to defeat them. That is what the Cabal prepared for!!!

It was not built to fight 210 simultaneous battles. It was not built to file 210 opposing affidavits within 10 days, each one tailored to a specific constituency, a specific applicant, a specific respondent MP. It was not built to coordinate 210 individual legal defences while simultaneously whipping the same MPs through a parliamentary vote, managing a national propaganda campaign & keeping the provincial chairmen in their new vehicles.

The strategy overwhelms by numbers. It dissolves the collective anonymity that the whip relies on into individual legal exposure. Every MP must now decide, personally, whether to oppose, default, or break ranks. The Cabal cannot decide for them. It cannot file a single affidavit for all 210. It cannot consolidate the cases without the consent of every applicant - which will not be forthcoming. The machine is drowning in process. And that is precisely the point.

PART 3: THE LIABILITY

Let us now speak plainly about what each MP faces. They have 3 options, and none of them is safe.

Oppose. File a Notice of Opposition. Enter an affidavit under oath. Defend the constitutionality of extending your own term without the people's consent. Every word becomes a public document. Every argument is tested, scrutinised, and entered into the permanent record of the Republic. That affidavit follows you into the next election. It follows you into history. It follows you into the reckoning.

Default. Do nothing. Let the 10 days lapse. The application proceeds unopposed. An order is granted. You are now legally barred from voting for #CAB3. If you vote anyway, you commit contempt. The bribe of USD50,000 will not cover the cost of a contempt finding. The whip will not protect you from a court order. The President's "whoever wins, wins" will not save you from the judiciary.

Break ranks. Announce that you will not vote for #CAB3, or that you will vote against it. The application against you becomes moot. The legal jeopardy lifts. But the political jeopardy of crossing the Cabal descends. You must weigh the whip against the writ, the bribe against the bench. And you must do it alone.

There is no collective shield. The anonymity of the caucus is dead. Every MP stands alone, named, served, and watched by the constituents who took them to court.

PART 4: RACING THE CLOCK

Now you understand why Ziyambi Ziyambi moved his motion today. #CAB3 entered its Second Reading, and immediately the Leader of the House requested that all other government business be suspended so that the House could debate #CAB3 into the night. An opposition legislator challenged this, citing personal security and the dangers of moving through the city after dark. The challenge was procedurally valid but strategically insufficient. The motion will likely pass. The night sitting will proceed.

Why? Because the Cabal is racing against the 10 day clock. The applications were served around 2–3 June. The opposition window closes around 12–13 June. Default orders could begin issuing shortly thereafter. If the parliamentary vote takes place after those orders are granted, every MP subject to an order who votes yes commits contempt. The 2/3 majority becomes mathematically impossible if even a modest number of MPs are legally barred.

The Cabal must complete the vote before the defaults crystallise. Speed is the only advantage left. The legal arguments are weak. The political legitimacy is evaporating. The Generals have warned. The voters have sued. But speed can still win if the vote is gavelled through before the court process catches up.

The night debate is not deliberation. It is exhaustion. It is a tactic designed to grind down opposition, to push the vote through when the nation is asleep, when the cameras are off, when the people cannot watch their representatives sell them out in real time. The suspension of all other government business is a confession. It tells us that nothing else matters - not the economy, not the health system, not the currency - except the extension of one man's term. The nation is being held hostage so that Mnangagwa can be made a tenant beyond his lease!!!

PART 5: THE NEXT MOVE - THE INTERDICT

The Cabal is sprinting. But a sprint can be stopped. And the law provides the mechanism.

The correct strategic response to a night sitting designed to pre-empt the judicial process is an urgent chamber application for an interim interdict. This is not speculation. It is the remedy the Constitution provides when a litigant seeks to protect the subject matter of pending litigation from being destroyed by one party's haste.

The application would be brought under Section 85, supported by a certificate of urgency. It would be filed with the Registrar of the Constitutional Court - even after hours, if necessary. The rules provide for a duty judge to receive urgent filings at any time. The papers would be placed before that judge, even at midnight. And the judge could issue an order halting the parliamentary process pending the determination of the 210 applications, or pending the delivery of judgment in the main Section 328(7) challenge.

The grounds would be precisely what Ziyambi has just done. Parliament is attempting to complete the vote under cover of night specifically to defeat the court's process. The 210 applications will be rendered meaningless if the vote is concluded before the 10 day window closes. The rule of law itself is under assault. A judge who receives such an application at 1 a.m., and who reads the Generals' warning, and who sees the President's "whoever wins, wins," and who understands that the chamber is being held overnight to outrun justice - that judge has the power to stop the clock. And the Constitution expects them to use it.

The court is always open for the protection of fundamental rights. The urgency of the night is not a shield for constitutional violation. An interdict granted at 2 a.m. is as binding as one granted at noon. And if it lands while Ziyambi's MPs are mid-debate, the entire spectacle collapses. The Speaker must halt the proceedings. The vote cannot proceed. The Cabal's timetable is shattered.

CONCLUSION: THE POT IS SIMMERING

This is not the time to relax. The overwhelming applications have changed the legal landscape. Ziyambi's night motion has confirmed the Cabal's desperation. The 10-day clock is ticking. The ConCourt is deliberating. The Generals are watching. And the archive is recording every minute.

The people have entered the courtroom. The law is in motion. And those who think they can outrun justice by debating into the dark have forgotten that the Constitution does not sleep!!!

[Richard Garwe 🇿🇼 @RichardGarwe]

South African Tsonga man sends warning to Zulus in Limpopo! The significance is that the South African authorities have not acted on other locals who are giving the exact same warning to foreigners! My opinion is that this is how the rule of law breaks down.

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@FlorenceMago @Leokoni @Sophie_Mokoena Its the types of you that DON'T know how Sanctions work who make such lame assumptions. Go read why we could not even get parts for the existing machines!!! Nothing to do with lack of money!!

[Richard Garwe 🇿🇼 @RichardGarwe]

@Leokoni @FlorenceMago @Sophie_Mokoena Due to #Zimbabwe's reintegration it is now able to buy machines like this!!!

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@Leokoni @FlorenceMago @Sophie_Mokoena You are missing the forest for the trees. For #Zimbabwe, its an achievement to be accepted overwhelmingly by the international community, through votes, after years of isolation. If you don't get it, you don't get it!

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@Leokoni @FlorenceMago @Sophie_Mokoena You are NOT voted in to be SADC chair. Just admit that #Zimbabwe was voted for overwhelmingly at the UN by other countries! Zvekuti haivhote mu UNSC ratova drama, EVERYONE KNOWS THAT!!!

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@Leokoni @FlorenceMago @Sophie_Mokoena Where does it say Germany would get Veto powers? Where does it say you are NOT VOTED for to actually qualify?

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@DivhaAfrica @matinyarare @matinyarare just like Mbudziyadhura is a NECESSARY distraction for some overzealous opposition supportes. He will keep them buzzy but get them nowhere!

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@FlorenceMago @Leokoni @Sophie_Mokoena You believe your own lies. Germany would not have got Veto power. Sit down!!

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@FlorenceMago @Leokoni @Sophie_Mokoena Chill. Votes don't come easy at the UNSC.

Germany blames Russia for 'bitter defeat' in UN Security Council bid

https://t.co/AqkmQdiKS8

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@Leokoni @Sophie_Mokoena You miss the forest for the trees. Getting votes is a BIG achievement at the UN!!

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@Jamwanda2 @KMarazanye She should be in China, Moscow is a bit tied up on cash right now!