Ross Moyo

fitchlea primary ma favourite school ever!m a down to earth journo ful o fun& God loving person!full of life !

[Nick Mangwana @nickmangwana]

When it comes to the UN Security Council Non-Permanent Membership, Zimbabwe will be articulating the position of the Region and not individual positions. President @edmnangagwa

[Rutendo Matinyarare @matinyarare]

𝗗𝗥 𝗧𝗨𝗡𝗚𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗥𝗔’𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗔𝗜𝗟 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗭𝗜𝗠𝗕𝗔𝗕𝗪𝗘 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗞 𝗕𝗬 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗞.

Many people have enquired how Presidential Advisor Dr. Paul Tungwarara makes his money. Well, the man is a central cog in infrastructure development through Prevail Construction and Prevail Concrete Solutions, which operate in Zimbabwe, Dubai, and South Africa.

The man has a lot he can teach up-and-coming entrepreneurs, and he believes in empowering others. So if you do plumbing, solar, electrical, and other services, seek to partner. Visit https://t.co/G05CsEHABK for more information.

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

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We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa who has been in power since November 2017, following the military coup that removed President Robert Mugabe. He has now signed into law Constitutional Amendment No. 3, which, among many other things, extends his term of office to 2030, cancels the 2028 elections, extends the presidential term from five years to seven years, and removes the direct election of the President by citizens, transferring that responsibility to Parliament.

This is a massive controversial constitutional change, one that would ordinarily require a referendum. However, the President and his advisers have refused to subject these changes to a referendum. That fact alone renders the entire process contestable and places a dark cloud of illegitimacy over his presidency beyond 2028, when his term of office was originally supposed to end.

But this crisis will not wait until 2028. It began the moment he signed Constitutional Amendment No. 3 into law, as opponents of the Bill which is now law have already declared the process illegal because there was no referendum.

The real challenge facing President Mnangagwa is not so much the opposition, which he has effectively dismantled with the assistance of opposition leaders who have allegedly been bought or co-opted. The real challenge is the economy.

As Bill Clinton famously said, “It’s the economy, stupid.” The economy is what will create a wave of political discontent between now and whenever he eventually leaves office, assuming he does not die in office.

I have seen some of my South African friends mocking Zimbabweans over this development and saying it is a Zimbabwean issue that Zimbabweans must resolve themselves. One can only say that if one is ignorant of the interconnectedness of our region and the ripple effects that this constitutional change is likely to create.

South Africa’s illegal immigration crisis has been authored, in part, by the misgovernance in Zimbabwe, which successive South African governments and the African National Congress have tolerated and, at times, enabled. When the economy deteriorates in Zimbabwe, desperate people cross into South Africa by any means necessary in search of jobs and opportunities.

This should not be viewed as a Zimbabwean crisis alone. It is a regional crisis, one that has the potential to create political and social turbulence throughout Southern Africa. History has taught us that whenever there is a crisis in Zimbabwe, South Africa bears much of the burden.

But this post is not about South Africa. It is about Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans.

The culture of bootlicking leaders and hero-worshipping politicians cuts across Zimbabwean society, both in the ruling party and in the opposition. Part of the reason why the opposition has been emasculated by Emmerson Mnangagwa is because citizens continue to place blind faith in leaders who have delivered very little.
Those leaders continue to sell hope to the people, even when many Zimbabweans know that some of them have been captured or compromised.

We saw this decadence in the Parliament of Zimbabwe. Opposition Members of Parliament voted with ZANUPF. Only 42 voted against the Constitutional Amendment Bill. The rest supported it. That is a reflection of the deep crisis within the opposition itself.

Unfortunately, many Zimbabweans mistakenly think that Zimbabwe’s problems are exclusively a ZANUPF problem. They are not. They are a Zimbabwean problem that Zimbabweans themselves must resolve, and not sit and watch.

As long as Zimbabweans continue to hero-worship personalities instead of supporting ideas, institutions and principles, the crisis will never go away. There are people with ideas and solutions for Zimbabwe, but they are not popular enough. Populism has derailed the opposition and made it ineffective in pushing back against ZANUPF’s misgovernance.

The signing of Constitutional Amendment No. 3 into law is, in my view, the beginning of a new phase of resistance, assuming events themselves do not overtake any organic resistance to Mnangagwa’s rule.

Zimbabwe today is a hopelessly divided society. People are fighting one another, and there is little national unity. President Mnangagwa could have secured his legacy by uniting the country and fixing the economy. Instead, it is evident that his administration remains adrift when it comes to economic management.

This is, therefore, a moment for Zimbabweans to reflect on what they want for their country and how they intend to achieve it.

For neighbouring countries, particularly South Africa, this is not Zimbabwe’s problem alone. According to the South African government, around 70% of women who give birth at Musina Hospital are Zimbabwean. You cannot simply turn them away. They will continue coming because the Zimbabwean government has failed to build a healthcare system capable of serving its people.

An estimated 2,500 Zimbabwean women die every year while giving birth because of inadequate maternal healthcare facilities. The largest hospital in Zimbabwe still relies on a single maternity theatre built in 1977 by the Ian Smith government. That alone is a devastating indictment of the state of public healthcare in Zimbabwe, and a metaphor for the state of affairs.

With unemployment estimated at over 95% in the formal and informal sectors combined, it is not surprising that Zimbabweans are prepared to risk their lives crossing crocodile-infested rivers in the Limpopo to reach South Africa. They will continue doing so.

No amount of anti-immigration marches in South Africa will stop this reality. One either understands how crises create migration flows, or one lives under the illusion and delusion that Zimbabweans can somehow be prevented from seeking survival elsewhere.

As we speak, many large-scale farms in Limpopo employ significant numbers of undocumented Zimbabwean workers. If those workers were suddenly to disappear overnight, the consequences for agricultural production and food prices would be enormous.

This is not simply my opinion as an analyst or journalist. I have spoken to numerous farmers in Limpopo. I am a farmer myself and have access to many people within the agricultural sector, including some who are political actors in South Africa.

The reality is that complex regional problems cannot be solved by slogans, social media noise or emotional outbursts. They require honest conversations, competent governance and courageous leadership on both sides of the Limpopo.

As this law comes into effect, many people must reflect on the roles they played, directly or indirectly, in bringing Zimbabwe to this point.

Vice President General Constantino Chiwenga was one of the leading proponents of the idea that President Mnangagwa could and should rule for as long as he wished, as he stated in the video I have attached below. Today, he finds himself effectively locked out of any constitutional path to the presidency.

The opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, also bears a significant share of responsibility. He effectively dismembered the opposition by getting rid of key allies who brought talents and skills that he himself did not possess. He dismantled leadership structures and ran the opposition without a constitution, creating an environment that enabled ZANUPF to infiltrate the opposition through the political charlatan Sengezo Tshabangu, whose actions were aided by Professor Jonathan Moyo’s ideas.

Ultimately, the supporters of these two men must not live in denial by blaming everyone else while refusing to examine their own role in what has happened.

There is nothing contained in this constitutional amendment, which is now law, that was not predicted. Analysts who warned that these developments would occur were ridiculed. They were demonised on social media, insulted and called names by opposition supporters. That abuse continues to this very day. It cuts across the political divide, both in ZANUPF and in the opposition, where leaders deploy and sponsor people to attack anyone who raises uncomfortable truths about the realities of life in Zimbabwe.

One cannot help but wonder whether some of those who have spent years attacking people who brought genuine issues to the table have themselves been manipulated or even indirectly serving the interests of ZANUPF, because it beggars belief that people can be so self-contradictory and self-destructive in the manner in which Zimbabwean politics has unravelled since 2022.

In 2021, through Constitutional Amendment No. 2, the running mate clause was removed. That amendment effectively dismantled the constitutional mechanism that many believed would guarantee General Chiwenga’s succession within ZANUPF. The running mate provision had been an important part of the constitutional architecture established by the 2013 Constitution, which was negotiated during the Government of National Unity and endorsed by almost 95% of Zimbabweans in a referendum.

The Vice President remained silent. He was warned. I was among those who argued that the removal of the running mate clause was the beginning of what I called a “royal presidency”, one in which President Mnangagwa would accumulate so much power that he could potentially remain in office until his death.

All the mistakes that have been made, whether through deliberate action, political expediency or sheer ignorance, have brought Zimbabwe to where it is today.

Have opposition supporters finally understood that ideas matter more than bootlicking and hero-worshipping political leaders? I do not know. Their reaction to what is happening in Zimbabwe today will answer that question.

Have members of ZANUPF who feel aggrieved by President Mnangagwa’s actions now come to understand that when people speak about constitutionalism, accountability and good governance, they are not necessarily being anti-ZANUPF? I do not know. Time will tell.

My thoughts, as I end this article, are with the millions of Zimbabweans who remain trapped inside Zimbabwe with little or no prospect of meaningful economic opportunities and who are unable to live normal lives in the way that citizens in functional countries do.

My thoughts are also with those citizens who spent years bootlicking and hero-worshipping politicians, unknowingly aiding this process and helping to create the very circumstances in which they now find themselves: unemployed, economically excluded and without hope for a better future.

And my thoughts are especially with those who cannot leave.
As the Jamaican reggae artist Buju Banton poignantly said in his song Untold Stories: “Those who can run, run away, but what about those who can’t? They will have to stay.”

That, perhaps, is the greatest tragedy of Zimbabwe: those with the means often leave, while the poorest and most vulnerable are left behind to endure the consequences of political failure, economic collapse and broken leadership. Their suffering should never be forgotten.

[ZimNewsUpdates @ZimNewsUpdates]

In the next few weeks, we are announcing national mass demonstrations and protests, signing #CAB3. Does not legitimately make him the president of the Republic of Zimbabwe, this can be reversed said @ProfMadhuku

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Addressing the press @ProfMadhuku explains the litigation and current court challenges that are seeking to reverse Mnangagwa’s #CAB3 assent

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[TechnoMag @TechnoMagZw]

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[mmatigari @matigary]

South Africans being chased away from Mozambique

[Kennedy Wandera @KennedyWandera_]

OFFICIAL: Zimbabwe's🇿🇼 President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, 83, has signed into law a legislation that extends his term in office by 2 years to 2030.

Zimbabweans will no longer vote for a president; instead, parliament will elect the head of state.

[Rutendo Matinyarare @matinyarare]

THE GREATEST THING I DID WAS FOCUS MY CONSULTANCY ON ZIMBABWE AND AFRICA WHEN SA CLOSED ITS DOORS.

Since 2019, I began to focus my marketing business on Zimbabwe and Africa after South Africa started closing off business opportunities to African investors.

What I can tell you is that Zimbabwe and Africa have been good to me. As I say this, it’s now June and most people have been focused on CAB3. But what have we done with the vast opportunities in Zimbabwe?

With so many opportunities coming out of Zimbabwe, I have to ask myself honestly: was my criticism of the government a fair assessment? Is Zimbabwe doing well because sanctions are gone, or because the Mnangagwa government has done well or both?

[ZimNewsUpdates @ZimNewsUpdates]

“This is the beginning of the end! Illegally Signing #CAB3 into law activates the citizens for national responds”said @BitiTendai

[Jamwanda @Jamwanda2]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Handisini; ndiSimiso!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[𝑲𝒖𝒅𝒛𝒂𝒊 𝑴𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒊 @KMutisi]

President @edmnangagwa’s motorcade en route to Parliament…. Do you see how beautiful Chairman Mao boulevard is???

The man built Zimbabwean infrastructure with very limited resources…. That’s why many Zimbabweans don’t mind giving him 2 MORE YEARS!

[Rutendo Matinyarare @matinyarare]

𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗭𝗔𝗡𝗨 𝗣𝗙 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗖𝗔𝗕𝟯. 𝗜𝗧’𝗦 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗, 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗧𝗦 𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘.

The difference between me and most others is that I don’t take things personally. Dr. Paul Tungwarara, Wicknell, other members of ZANU PF, and the Varakashi fought for CAB3 to go through. They put up a strong fight and succeeded. We lost, but it’s not the end of the world.

Yes, I did not support CAB3 from an ideological perspective, but now that it has been passed, we leave it to the courts while we as citizens unite beyond our differences and start to build our country.

What is ironic is that before and during CAB3, many business opportunities opened up for me in Zimbabwe over the past seven years, making the business trajectory bright. So despite differing ideologically, the Second Republic has made economic sense for me commercially.

So I have made a decision: Congratulations to the CAB3 team! It’s time we put our differences aside, unite, and build this commonwealth that we call Zimbabwe.

I refuse to die on the mountain of resisting CAB3, because this government has made doing business in Zimbabwe feasible. We have done all we could to contest differing political positions, but the reality is CAB3 is now law. It’s time to build Zimbabwe, which has honestly opened huge opportunities for those who want to make money.

[Ross Moyo @RossMoyo]

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