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Why the Fear of General Chiwenga Runs Deeper Than Politics
.There is a word being whispered in Harare's corridors of power with growing urgency, and that word is dynasty.
Not spoken openly, of course those closest to the current administration know better than to say it aloud but it is there, in the manoeuvring, in the reshuffles, in the quiet sidelining of those who once stood shoulder to shoulder with the liberation struggle's living institutions.
I have worn the uniform of this country. I have sat in rooms where succession was discussed in whispers long before it reached the newspapers.
And I say to you plainly what is being attempted is not succession planning. It is an attempt to close a door that many believe should never have been closed.
General Constantino Chiwenga is not merely a political figure to be managed.
He is, to a significant constituency within the security services, the war veterans, and the ordinary citizen who remembers 2017, a symbol of an unfinished promise that this would be a government of renewal, not a government of replacement dynasties.
It is this symbolism, more than any single policy dispute, that appears to unsettle those closest to the Presidency.
Why the hostility? Ask around Harare and you will hear the same theory repeated in different words: that a genuine transition to General Chiwenga would not merely cost certain figures their positions it would expose them to scrutiny they have spent years trying to avoid.
Insiders describe a climate in which loyalty is measured not by service to the nation but by one's usefulness in keeping the current arrangement in place indefinitely.
Whether that translates into formal accountability for abuse of office, only Zimbabwe's institutions not this column can determine.
But the anxiety around that possibility is, by most credible accounts, real, and it explains far more of the current political theatre than any public statement has admitted.
This is why the language of “constitutional amendments,” “party consensus,” and “continuity” has become so prominent in recent months.
Dynasty-building rarely announces itself as such. It arrives dressed as stability, as unity, as the avoidance of disruption.
But Zimbabweans have seen this play before, and they are not as easily persuaded as some in the corridors of power seem to believe.
General Chiwenga's own public discipline throughout this period his refusal to be drawn into public confrontation.
His continued presence at state functions, his insistence on constitutional process has, if anything, sharpened the contrast.
It is difficult to cast a man as a threat to stability when his conduct has been the very model of it.
That contrast is, I suspect, precisely what unsettles his opponents most.
Let me be clear about what this column is, and is not.
It is not a claim of proven wrongdoing against any named individual those are matters for Zimbabwe's courts and constitutional bodies, not for a newspaper column.
It is an observation, informed by decades in and around the security establishment, that the intensity of resistance to a General Chiwenga succession is itself the clearest evidence of what some believe is at stake for those resisting it.
When the reaction to a possibility is this disproportionate, it is worth asking what, precisely, is being protected.
Zimbabwe does not need a dynasty. It needs the constitutional succession its people were promised.
Whether that promise is honoured, or quietly buried under the language of continuity, will say more about the character of this government than any speech ever could.
Rtd. Lt. Gen. Winston Sigauke Mapuranga.