Cosmas M'manga

Leader, addict to change, believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

@bbmhlanga @CCCZimbabwe Good day @bbmhlanga,
If you read the CCC constitution as presented to the Court and ZEC you will have your answer. True leaders should reflect, account for their actions or lack thereof, take responsibility & focus on remedial action. Denialism& pride is arrogance & not smart!

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

@daddyhope @DandaroOnline Thank you so much @daddyhope for your kindness

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

@BrianRupiya What a tragedy. A constitution where the leader is Alfa and Omega!

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

@InnocentsFirst1 @daddyhope @nelsonchamisa Hakuna. Dai iripo Tshabangu aisa hijacker party CCC

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

It is deeply saddening that such a large number of passengers and crew were aboard the boat that capsized on Lake Kariba. Our thoughts are with those affected and their families during this difficult time. While we hope the ongoing rescue efforts will save as many lives as possible, this tragedy also raises urgent questions about safety preparedness:

Passenger safety:
Were all individuals provided with life jackets, and were they wearing them at the time of the incident?

Emergency response:
How quickly were rescue teams able to reach the scene, and were adequate resources deployed to assist such a large group?

Safety measures:
Was the vessel compliant with passenger capacity regulations, and were safety drills or instructions given before departure?

Future prevention:
What steps will be taken to strengthen oversight, improve equipment standards, and ensure accountability for passenger safety on public water transport?

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

@NewZimbabweCom It is a broken system which thrives on the pain of its citizens. These marshals are heartless!

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

@daddyhope What a moronic piece from this Mutebuka guy!

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

@Laque_davis Mukuru wemazuva! This is blasphemy

[Namatai Kwekweza🇿🇼 @namataik_]

🇿🇼Listen to Jessie Majome, the Chairperson of the @zhrc365, addressing inquiries regarding the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission's position on the public hearings for Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3. She shared that the commission observed violations of rights and reiterated that the Constitutional Amendments should align with local, regional, and international instruments. #DefendTheConstitution

[Gerrard Anko Ged Belts @MacBelts]

Out now in your nearest music store

[Doug Coltart ⚖️🇿🇼 @DougColtart]

And to all those who say that I am not Zimbabwean because of the colour of my skin, may you find healing for the hate in your hearts. I don't hate you back.

And I challenge you to a dance off!!!🕺😂 Name the time and place. @AlickMacheso please provide the music.🎶🇿🇼🖤🤎💛💚

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

@ibbosnr @MartinTarusenga NTA here senior. We just need electoral reforms and elections in 2028. You cant be fighting an ilegality whilst proposing another breach of the constitutionin the same breath

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

@Pachisolife A well researched presentation by Rutendo. Kudzai is all waffles and zero substance

[Leonard Koni🇿🇼 @Leokoni]

Vapedza Amai. I 💯 endorse this message. Let it go viral so that varakashi and other mipurwas can learn a lesson. We have intelligent people in the country. Her explanation is just simple and straight forward.

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

@maguranyanga @mamakaCleo Very sad

[Retired Lt General Winston Sigauke Mapuranga @SajeniMapuranga]

Some citizens who are one month old are, by Section 35(2), equally entitled to the right to regular elections. Not even children can be disinherited of this right.This is not a collective right that parliament can negotiate away on behalf of the people. It is an individual right yours, mine, that of every Zimbabwean child born under this constitutional order. Once that is understood, the cascade of protections that follows under Sections 44, 45, and 46 locks every arm of the state into compliance. No amendment, no matter how large a parliamentary majority supports it, can lawfully impair that right.

Attorney General, you represent Zimbabwe in international forums. You are a state party to the UN, the AU, and SADC. You understand what R2P means the heads of state at the 2005 World Summit unanimously agreed that where a state fails to protect fundamental rights of its citizens, the international community has not only the right but the responsibility to act. I am not raising this as a threat. I am raising it as a reminder of the weight of the office you hold.

III. Power Is Not Authority Know the Difference. Now we come to the question of referendum. I have listened to legal commentators invoke Section 328(6) as if it settles the matter. It does not. And I say to you and to those who advise you that the confusion you are spreading flows from a fundamental failure to distinguish between authority and power.Section 117(2)(a) confers upon the legislature defined by Section 116 as Parliament and the President acting in accordance with Chapter 6 a power to amend the Constitution in accordance with Section 328. Note carefully: it confers a power. It does not confer authority. Sections 88(2) and 162 vest executive and judicial authority respectively in the President and the judiciary. These are authorities derived directly from the people in terms of Sections 88(1), 117(1), and 162. Legislative power, by contrast, is delegated and circumscribed.

A two-thirds majority in either House of Parliament amplifies the weight of power. It does not transform power into authority. And Section 328 sits deliberately outside Chapter 6 which means that legislative action in accordance with Chapter 6 alone does not automatically validate constitutional amendment. The placement is not accidental. The Constitution's architects understood the distinction.
We are still, as a nation, thinking in Lancaster House terms a constitution that did not specify the source of governmental authority, and where a two-thirds majority was consequently conflated with unlimited constitutional power. That era is over. Our 2013 Constitution is explicit: all authority executive, legislative, judicial is derived from the people of Zimbabwe. The legislature was not given executive authority. It cannot act on behalf of the people in exercising their right to self-determination. You cannot give what you were never given.

IV. The Referendum Is Not Optional It Is the Law of Democracy
Let me be plain on this final point, because I have heard too many lawyers argue past it.
What triggers a referendum is not Section 328(6) alone. What triggers a referendum is this: the people have a vested right in the matter under consideration, and they are the original authors and authority behind the constitution being amended. The right to participate in determining how they are governed — Section 67(1)(a) as read with Section 3(2)(b)(ii) and Sixth Schedule paragraph 3(2)(e) — is non-negotiable and inalienable. It cannot be bargained away in a legislative chamber, however supermajority the vote.
Section 110(2)(f) directs the President to call a referendum on any matter where that is warranted. A bill seeking to alter the periodic cycle of elections is precisely such a matter. Once the people have declared that they demand a referendum on this bill, the state has no lawful basis to refuse.

[Chofamba @Chofamba]

Why worry about whether or not CDF will turn into a political party? CDF is a creature of the freedoms of association, assembly and expression that are enshrined in the Constitution that we have mobilised ourselves to defend.

Meaning no one can associate with what they’ve chosen not to. If CDF ever transforms from a Constitutional defence platform into something else, you’re free to dissociate from it.

It’s that simple!

So we reject the false characterisation that some paranoid people who are trying to gate-keep opposition politics are busy spreading on these streets.

We are citizens of Zimbabwe, and we are organising ourselves! We are using the tools available in this 21st century to attempt to build modern systems of organisation. We’re also creating platforms for volunteers who have wanted to contribute to the national effort to find space to do so and not be mere onlookers.

In this vein, the grand ambition is to build modern organisational infrastructure that would be useful for any civic or political cause, and allow for the broadest possible interactive engagement with citizens participating in collective action!

#DefendTheConstitution
#Noto2030
@cdfzim
@TereraiSithole @freemanchari @MakomboreroH @tapiwa_chiriga

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

@matinyarare Crystal clear.

[Cosmas M'manga @Cosmang]

One man one vote....Not Mps, not chiefs. Let the people vote!

[Alexander Gusha @ZEZURUROCKSTAR]

In the documentary Democrats, Douglas Mwonzora calmly reminds the room that a constitution is not a favor from power it is a restraint on it. Even when facing Robert Mugabe, the demands were clear: the law must stand above men.

Whatever politics say today, history records this Mwonzora has always been a constitutionalist. He fought for the constitution when it was hardest to demand it.