THE PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTION MUST RETURN TO THE PEOPLE
I write in full solidarity with the courageous and principled position taken by my fellow retired generals, air marshals, and ex-combatants, ably represented by Retired Air Marshal Henry Muchena, in their letter to the Parliament of Zimbabwe. Their call is not merely procedural. It is a call rooted in history, in blood, in the very foundational grammar of the liberation struggle that brought this nation into being. I add my voice loudly and without reservation to that call: Constitutional Amendment Bill 3 of 2026 must be submitted to the people of Zimbabwe in a national referendum.
I)Power Derives From The People This Is Not Rhetoric, It Is Our Creed
In ZANU-PF, we have never wavered on this principle power belongs to the people. This is not a slogan borrowed from foreign textbooks. It is the conclusion drawn from the barrel of the gun, from the training camps of Mozambique and Tanzania, from the village meetings where the masses gave us their mandate to fight. The liberation struggle was prosecuted in the name of the people and only ever in their name.
It therefore follows, with the force of an iron law, that any fundamental restructuring of the constitutional architecture of this Republic including how its President is elected must return to those same people for their express approval. This is not optional. This is non-negotiable. Anything less is a betrayal of everything we claimed to be fighting for.
II. We Have Been Here Before And We Accepted The People's Verdict
My colleagues correctly remind Parliament of the constitutional commission process of 2000. Let the record be clear: that process was our brainchild. We invested in it politically and institutionally. We believed in the document that emerged from that consultative process. And when the people of Zimbabwe went to the polls in February 2000 and voted NO they rejected it.
We did not overturn that result. We did not circumvent it. We did not send it back to a parliamentary committee to be quietly repackaged. We accepted the people's will because that is what democracy demands. That was democracy at its most honest: uncomfortable, inconvenient, and entirely correct.
Those who now seek to amend the constitution through Parliament alone bypassing the very people who own it should ask themselves: are they more committed to democratic principle than the generals of 2000? Because we set the standard, and we held ourselves to it.
III. Parliamentary Voting on Presidential Selection Is A Return to Ian Smith's Qualified Suffrage
We went to war, in significant part, because of the obscenity of qualified suffrage a system in which a select, privileged few voted on behalf of the many. Ian Smith's Rhodesia operated on precisely this principle: that the masses were not fit to determine their own political destiny, that their votes could be mediated, filtered, and substituted by those deemed more qualified.
We find it deeply troubling and frankly, morally nauseating that any proposal should now emerge, under a ZANU-PF government, which would strip 17 million Zimbabweans of their right to directly elect their President, and vest that power in 280 Members of Parliament. What are 280 MPs in the face of 17 million citizens? They are a small, selected subset and their vote, however procedurally valid, cannot substitute for the voice of the nation.
Universal suffrage one man, one vote was the war cry. It was the promise we made to the masses when we asked them to feed us, hide us, and die alongside us. To now engineer a system that effectively cancels that promise through constitutional sleight of hand is to betray the graves of every freedom fighter who gave their life for this principle.
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