So at the end of the Zanu PF conference in Mutare, Ziyambi Ziyambi, the Zanu PF legal secretary stood up, read out the contentious resolution number one and instructed Ziyambi Ziyambi, the Justice Minister and leader of government business in Parliament to find a pathway to make sure the resolution was implemented.
When Ziyambi Ziyambi of the party instructed Ziyambi Ziyambi of the government—never mind that the same person was instructing himself—the party was in fact instructing the government to give effect to the brazenly unconstitutional crusade to extend Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term beyond 2028.
Put simply, Ziyambi Ziyambi instructing himself in Mutare was a crudely epic act of political masturbation by Zanu PF at a time when political masturbation has become the bane of Zanu PF politics.
Similarly, we are likely to see Jacob Mudenda, Zanu PFs new secretary-general writing to or even addressing the party’s parliamentary caucus to give effect to this resolution in Parliament where he sits on the revered chair as the Speaker.
Mudenda, the Zanu PF secretary for administration is also the Speaker of Parliament which is set to become the theatre of the implementation of the gothic and satanic resolution number 1 as vultures and dubious consultants led by celebrated political harlot Jonathan Moyo seek to avoid the Constitutional route of holding referenda.
It is instructive that they want to avoid the people at all cost yet they claim this resolution came from the people!
When the time finally comes for the party to drive this brazenly unconstitutional agenda in Parliament, Mudenda, the Speaker of Parliament, a key pillar of the State in a Constitutional democracy but who himself is a politburo member and the party’s secretary-general, will not be able to feign neutrality or political disinterest in this matter.
Same person but different hats as Zanu PF masturbates and goes into overdrive in its vicious assault of the Constitution.
- Emmerson Mnangagwa: same person, same conference, same offer, same resolution but different responses
The Zanu PF conference, which met in Mutare last week, is an organ of the party. It met in Bulawayo last year where the infamous Sapatina Sapatina resolution number 1 to extend Mnangagwa’s tenure was first conceived.
When the resolution was first adopted in Bulawayo last year, ED made it very clear through Patrick Chinamasa that he was a constitutionalist and that the resolution was not implementable.
He said he had had a hand in the sculpting of the current Constitution and would not assault the supreme law of the land.
This time, the venue may have changed to Mutare but it is still the same conference, the same organ restating the same unconstitutional resolution and making the same offer of an unconstitutional term extension to the same person.
What has only changed this time is Mnangagwa’s response.
The last time, he rightly and openly deemed the resolution unconstitutional and spurned it. But this time he has maintained the silence of the grave on the same resolution made by the same organ in the same wording and with the same unconstitutional import.
ED’s silence in Mutare on the same resolution is a very clear and unequivocal message: Mnangagwa is no constitutionalist as he said last year. For all we know, he has always been a Constitutional delinquent and must be treated as such.
In Mutare, ED simply unmarked himself even though some of us had never been swayed by the fiction of Mnangagwa ever being a Constitutionalist. He never was and will never ever be one!
Conclusion: The fight of our lives
Faced with an internal party resolution but one with national implications and one that viciously assaults the national Constitution made and affirmed by millions of Zimbabweans in a referendum, it behoves upon every patriotic citizen to engage in the biggest fight of our lives: the fight to defend our Constitution.
Indeed, in our different spaces and in our unique and diversified zones of competence, we must all defend the national Constitution.
That is our generational mandate.
It is not going to be easy considering that every sector and every strategic national institution has now been bribed and compromised by a criminal cabal seeking a seat on the national high table for the selfish reason of looting more from the citizens.
Zanu PF’s resolution number 1 remains a sapatina sapatina dictum by a politically-connected criminal elite seeking to ravenously eat away our collective national heritage.
To this criminal end, Kubakwake Tabireyi and his criminal cohorts have bribed and compromised the opposition, they have bribed the church, they have compromised the judiciary and they have bribed our military through cash, vehicles and other trinkets.
More importantly, they have compromised Parliament where Zanu PF now commands a two-thirds majority, thanks to sell-out Sengezo Tshabangu and his Moise Tshombe credentials.
Also at a time the so-called legislators themselves appear selfishly keen for the tandem benefit of their own parliamentary term extensions.
For the truly committed ordinary Zanu PF cadre, Mutare ought to have offered a tragic sight. Delegates were openly pampered with cars, goodies and food hampers as a criminal cabal openly bought out the soul of the once-revolutionary party that once had values and even had a Leadership Code.
In Mutare, it was a sad and sorry sight to see the party selling its soul to the highest bidder, a once-revolutionary party founded by among others Manicaland luminaries such as Herbert Wiltshire Chitepo, Ndabaningi “Magigwana” Sithole and Edgar Zivanai Tekere.
But while Zanu PF resolutions may bind their own party members; the rest of us remain commonly bound by the national Constitution that all patriotic Zimbabweans must and will stridently defend in this momentous hour.
To the last drop of our blood, patriotic Zimbabweans must occupy every space to defend our national Constitution which is bigger than any party and its resolutions.
Defending our Constitution is going to be the fight of our lives that must unite us!
Indeed, Zanu PF’s epic moment of political masturbation in Mutare, where Zanu PF leaders wearing party heads instructed themselves under government hats to take charge in the vicious assault of the Constitution must trigger and ignite the fight of our lives in defence of the supreme charter of our land.
We owe it to ourselves and to posterity!
Luke Tamborinyoka, currently based in England, is a citizen from Domboshava. He is a journalist and a political scientist by profession. You can interact with him via his Facebook page or his X handle @luke_tambo.
