Harold Nyasha Chiunda

Slowly is the fastest way to get where u want to be

[Hon Zivhu @killerzivhu1]

Stop diluting fuel to enrich individuals. Undiluted fuel is cheaper in the region. We complain about U.S. sanctions, but this government is effectively placing its own citizens under sanctions by diluting fuel. Engines are being damaged by this useless fuel

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Four-day extreme heat warning issued - as temperatures set to hit 38C

https://t.co/1vTgl5IuFN

[Peter Ndoro @peterndoro]

This is a fair observation, and some would say a clever legal argument. However, the Constitution appears to anticipate precisely this point by focusing on the EFFECT of an amendment rather than merely its label.

If the current constitutional framework provides for two five-year terms, the maximum period a President may hold office is 10 years. If that framework is amended to two seven-year terms, the maximum period becomes 14 years.

While the term limit remains "two terms", the EFFECT of the amendment is to increase the length of time a person may hold office from 10 to 14 years. That is exactly the type of benefit the Constitution's "no-benefit rule" was designed to prevent an incumbent from enjoying.

The real constitutional question is not what the amendment is called, but what it allows an incumbent office-holder to DO in practice.

[Robert Tapfumaneyi @rtapfumaneyi]

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[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is officially set to resign as Prime Minister

Several media reports say he'll outline a resignation timetable on Monday after consulting with his wife and family today

[Brighton Mutebuka @BMutebuka]

The Telegraph says ED is facing a Chiwenga led coup via Muchena & others as his proxies, and predict a looming showdown.

It also refers to Chiwenga's Hezekiah satire, while questioning the extent of his military tentacles after ED strategically dismantled his network over time.

It also challenges the feasibility of that coup under current conditions.

These are themes that I have regularly addressed in the past.

Mugabe’s strongman faces a coup of his own in Zimbabwe https://t.co/heXc17TiwE

[Thuso van Zyl 🇿🇦 @Thuso1Africa]

Africans don’t hate us South Africans as a whole. They hate xenophobia and South Africans who are xenophobic. Xenophobia is hate crime, you should hate it too.

[Thuso van Zyl 🇿🇦 @Thuso1Africa]

So, you refer to South African immigrants as South Africans in the diaspora. But Africans living in South Africa you call them derogatory names like illegal aliens, kwerekwere, criminals etc? We see you

[Brighton Mutebuka @BMutebuka]

With the greatest of respect, this is simply a flawed analysis Chofs.

ZANU PF has structures, a Constitution & established protocols which were clearly brazenly breached right under the noses of supposedly powerful stalwarts like Chiwenga.

The national Constitution has clearly been vandalised not withstanding it's clear filibusters which prevent ED from benefitting from any amendments as an incumbent while also requiring two referendums in the process.

A constitutional precedent was unlawfully set when Judges extended their own tenures & presided over their own case while setting aside an unfavourable High Court judgment, which created a constitutional crisis at the time.

Even after that, Judges unlawfully received inducements from the Executive.

We have just had 2 compelling cases conveniently dismissed by the CC on technical grounds & you also recently saw the extraordinary spectre of a recently retired CJ receiving personal perks / trinkets from an incumbent.

In November 2017, we also had a coup taking place, as popular as it was, it was still a coup.

You must analyse the issue holistically, looking at our political economy in its full glory, warts & all.

Flowing from that, it stands to reason that even if your proposition was to be taken as unimpeachable in its merits, at its core, it cannot come anywhere near demonstrating that - it would have been sufficient to derail a clearly determined malign actor to launch an unprecedented assault on the Constitution.

What history will show is that ED is in a class of his own in that regard.

He simply succeeded in capturing all key state institutions ahead of time & regional ones as well, such as SADC.

To lay all that on Chamisa's shoulders is conveniently appealing but materially & monumentally flawed.

It's a convenient if not almost perfect scapegoat which absolves ED of culpability!

[Brighton Mutebuka @BMutebuka]

As predicted, all the Anti-CAB3 platforms failed to gain traction not because of the absence of strategies, but due to constraints of the political environment.

Even Chiwenga's military backed faction is also facing similar challenges!

[Peter Ndoro @peterndoro]

Prof Lovemore Madhuku explained to @channelafrica1 #Zimbabwe's parliament is being unconstitutional, as Section 328 of the Constitution (2013) reads: "If an amendment extends how long someone may hold an office (e.g. lengthening a term or resetting term limits), it does not apply to anyone who already held that office before the amendment took effect — a safeguard meant to stop sitting office-holders from using a constitutional change to extend their own stay in power."

[David Coltart @DavidColtart]

Mark this tweet #Zimbabweans. One day we will reverse all the undemocratic amendments to our beloved 2013 Constitution.

In future the only amendments to it will be those which enhance it - which build on its foundations- not those which undermine its very foundations.

When this will happen I can’t say but it will happen just as firmly as the end of white minority rule, the crashing down of the Berlin Wall, and all other events in history when tyranny ends.

As Barack Obama noted yesterday

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

Obama noted that although the phrase is often associated with Martin Luther King Jr., it actually originated with a Boston abolitionist preacher, Reverend Theodore Parker, in a sermon delivered more than 170 years ago.

Obama explained that Parker preached these words in the dark period following the Compromise of 1850, when the anti-slavery movement seemed to be losing ground and fugitive slaves were being returned to bondage. Parker acknowledged that justice often appeared absent in the world, but expressed faith that history ultimately bends toward justice.

The fuller quotation Rev Parker used was:

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one. My eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight. I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see, I am sure it bends toward justice.”

So too in Zimbabwe. Ultimately there will be justice and the rule of violent, cruel, corrupt and unprincipled men will end.

[Freeman @freemanchari]

Tshabangu is not the story. He has no power as an individual. He is projecting the monopolistic power of the state. No one would have been able to stop him without firing a gun. We are lying to each other that citizens would have stopped him. The state has power.

If it were that easy, ZAPU and ZANU wouldn't have been banned by the Rhodies in 1962 & 64 respectively. When the state decides to use its resources to destroy opposition, there is nothing you can do that doesn't involve force.

ZANU PF is known to use small proxies to destroy and humiliate. Do you remember when Tsvangirai realized his blunder on Locadia Karimatsenga? Some obscure Chief Negomo was given prominence just so a score could be settled. It doesn't mean Negomo had any legitimate power, he was tortoise on a post.

We need to study how other movements survived even in the face of relentless state pressure.

[Zlatan Ibrahimović @Ibra_official]

The studio will never forget

[iKomanisi☭ @DrSindane]

He's 83 years old. Although he's been president since 2017, he has been in government in since 1980. This Bill that extends his presidential term to 2030 means that he will be 87 years old when his term comes to an end. If successful, he'd have been in government for 50 years! 😐

[Gift Ostallos Siziba @Cde_Ostallos]

In Matebeleland, these were the elected representatives that were removed and replaced by regime imposters :
Hon Prince Dubeko
Hon Eric Gono
Hon Nicolla Watson
Hon Raphael Sibanda
Hon Toffa
Hon Ostallos
Hon Zana
Hon Morgan Ncube
Hon Vanya ( MHSRIP)
Hon Manduna
Hon Makaza
Hon Mlilo
Sen Shoko
Sen Tsepiso
Sen Ncube
Sen Mafa
Sen Sibanda
Sen Moyo
Sen Gabuza

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

Bill to extend President Mnangagwa’s rule passed by Zimbabwean Parliament
https://t.co/vC8u9vqdOe

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

A bill in Zimbabwe to scrap presidential elections has sparked backlash, with critics warning it could undermine democratic processes, according to reports.
https://t.co/WQo1Hr6hRr

[Doug Coltart ✊🏼🇿🇼 @DougColtart]

Please join me in thanking these 42 courageous women and men stood with the people. You are on the right side of history. It is not over! The struggle continues. Justice will prevail.

[nelson chamisa @nelsonchamisa]

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