President Mnangagwa has signed into law constitutional amendments to extend his term by 2 years until 2030. The amendments, which also replace direct presidential elections in favour of a vote by parliament, faced widespread resistance but universal support from Zanu PF MPs
On 11 March 1986, Lieutenant General Lookout Masuku was released from detention after more than four years in Robert Mugabe's prisons, but the freedom announced in the headlines had already been hollowed out by the state that held him until his body began to fail.
Four armed soldiers still guarded his room at Parirenyatwa Hospital, where one of ZIPRA's most senior commanders lay attached to two drips, his arms swollen from repeated attempts to find veins, his body weakened by years in Chikurubi and his mind carrying blank spaces from days of imprisonment he could no longer remember.
This was a man who had fought Ian Smith's Rhodesia and helped carry Zimbabwe towards independence, only to be imprisoned without trial by the government that independence produced.
The prison authorities claimed he had been examined by a specialist, yet the man was neither a specialist nor even a registered doctor, while Masuku understood exactly what had been done to him. He entered prison healthy, developed high blood pressure, then kidney disease and finally the illness that was killing him.
By early April, he had reached the only conclusion left.
They released me because they knew I was dying.
In his final days, one of his last requests was heartbreakingly simple. He wanted watermelon. Because there were none in Harare, Gift Masuku, Tshinga Dube, Joshua Nkomo and Zodwa Dabengwa searched across two cities for a single piece of fruit that might bring comfort to a dying liberation commander.
When it finally reached him, his face lit up.
When told it had come from Zodwa Dabengwa, he managed only one word.
Zodwa.
On 5 April 1986, Lookout Masuku died, and although the state denied him a hero's burial, Bulawayo gave him one anyway as tens of thousands gathered at Lady Stanley Cemetery to honour the man the government had tried to break.
Lookout Masuku survived Rhodesia, but he did not survive the Zimbabwe he helped liberate.
ZANU-PF destroyed him.
The video of a Mutare mushikashika driver beating up a police officer and speeding off has gone viral. Police responded swiftly by arresting the young man, who is likely to face abuse during investigations. For long, police have been selective on the cases they choose to pursue.
A video circulating online shows a father walking to the front of a church and pointing at church leaders over allegations that a pastor and another married man in the same church was proposing to his daughter. The incident has sparked a heated debate about whether it was right or wrong for him to confront them publicly during a church service.
What are your thoughts? Was the father justified in doing it in front of the congregation, or should he have handled the matter privately?🤔🇿🇼
🚩🚩🚩Ko munovarovereiko ? Vana vevhu vanoti kurohwa kunze kwenyika, voti kurohwa munyika yavo? Is this not violating Section 53 of the Zimbabwean Constitution? @PoliceZimbabwe
General Chiwenga is in another deep call to the nation through a sermon. He says our dear constitution, Lazarus, was sick through the #CAB3 attack by the #oligarchs in Zanu Pf. He was told to help save the constitution, Lazarus, but dis not do so on time. Lazarus died, and CAB
🔴"Ko murikutyei? Ko referendum munoityirei?".
These are authentic voices from young people who are genuinely active in constitutional matters.
Does Zimbabwe really need a change to the constitution to extend term limit years, or should we focus on fixing the country first?
#FixTheCountry #2030Musipo
This is the Bulawayo-Tsholotsho Road in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 those in power don’t care they are busy buying cars and sending
money to their bootlickers and those spreading propaganda on social media 💔
We can't extend the term of the office of the failures ,we can't. Mnangagwa has to go ASAP.
He has failed, Zimbabweans are all over the world looking for better life, because of @ZANUPF_Official.
😂😂😂😂What did I tell you about divide and conquer and treating your fellow brothers and sisters like humans.
Nanso ke indaba 😂😂😂
Unfortunately bhunu is saying painful truths and it needs sober and less emotional minds to digest.
This is a still photo of how South African March and March Afrophobic thugs used Stone as a weapon to murder Malawian street vendor Brian Mwanza, right in the middle of South Africa's Indian Ocean costal city of Durban, in the province of Kwazulu Natal.
Brain's only crime was being an African selling Fruits in the street to support his family in Malawi, when this young man met this dreadful end.
South Africans watched with unimaginable indifference to the sanctity of life, as this young man's brains was smashed to pieces and he lost consciousness, without anyone rendering assistance to him.