Dear Honourables,
I humbly write to you in this momentous hour in our beloved country when the treasonous CAB3 has just been tabled for your consideration in the House.
I will not even seek to unpack it for you because I know that by now, you are well aware that at best, this perfidious Bill represents a heist on the people’s sacred right to vote for a President of their own choice.
And the Bill even seeks to brazenly pilfer away that right without the consent of the citizens through a referendum, as demanded by the same supreme law of the land, in whose shredding you shall all become willing accomplices if you, in your wisdom or lack thereof,, choose to pass this Bill.
But first things first. Kindly remember, esteemed MPs and Senators, you are all eager participants in a cocktail of blatant illegalities. First, we had a President, an interested party, who on 10 February 2026 chaired a Cabinet meeting that deliberated on a Bill containing his own term extension, in utter disregard of the legal principle of nemo judex in Sus causa.
And soon, again in blatant violation of that sacred natural justice principle, you as our esteemed representatives, will be sitting self interestedly debating debating a Bill which coterminously extends your own terms as well.
It’s a festival of legal absurdities; a sonorous cacophony of sublime mysticism and utter nonsense.
The Bill now before you seeks to commercialise the highest office in the land by selling it to the highest bidder; to the one who is able—-on the eve of the Presidential vote—to compromise the now smaller and purchasable Electoral College of Parliament, should this Bill be allowed to pass. .
Honourable members, for all the frailties of what Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says will be a public vote on this Bill, at least there’s a chastening accountability aspect in that we, the people you purport to represent, will be able to tell and record, for posterity, where each one of you stood when our mother (land) was being stripped and violated in broad daylight by moneyed rapists.
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In this crucial hour, esteemed Honourables, history beckons and we shall be able to record where each one of you stood when the country got sold away to a power crazy cabal that seeks to create a Presidency for sale.
We now understand that there is a $31 million war chest to bribe you, in a dry-run of what will happen in the future on the eve of every Presidential “election” should you choose to pass this treasonous Bill.
Given this brazen MPs-for-sale-scheme, we wait with bated breath to see, in the hour of reckoning , how and where each one of you will cast their vote.
By the way, where you will stand on this crucial vote may determine whether you are lynched or lauded by your constituents in the aftermath of the seismic Parliamentary plebiscite on this Bill.
And this, my esteemed MPs, is not a threat but a solemn promise.. indeed, some of you will be lynched, literally , by the people you purport to represent should you decide to vote with your own tummy.
Remember your vote on this crucial Bill should not be a personal choice. It must represent the patriotic sentiment of those who sent you to Parliament.
Therefore, your ballot may determine your personal safety in your constituency, should those who sent you to that sacred House feel that you did not represent their true preference.
Esteemed Honourables, you must defend the Constitution. You must defend Zimbabwe in this crucial hour. And we, the citizens, will eternally keep the record of how each one of you voted.
This is the time to vote in a manner that will enable you to boldly stare history in the face, in the full knowledge and comfort that you discharged your representative duty to the best interest of Zimbabwe and her citizens.
I just want to reiterate that we will be closely following the vote and we will record, by name and for purposes of history, who the heroes and the villains were when history beckoned.
Esteemed honourable members, this Bill provides you a chance to showcase your credentials as a representative of the people, NOT a deployee of the Executive and/or its purchased proxies and surrogates such as one Sengezo Tshabangu, who has distinguished himself as the latter-day Morrison Nyathi, that conspicuous sell-out during our venerable liberation struggle.
Dear Honourables, I wish to close with an anecdote from Chinua Achebe, which he titled, “The tortoise and the Leopard, an Imperative on the eve of struggle.”
He says once upon a time, a leopard chanced upon a tortoise in the open vlei and said to him: “Very well, prepare to die.” The tortoise reportedly made a very strange request by pleading with the leopard to give him just one moment, which was duly granted.
In that granted moment, the tortoise started doing strange things; scratching the earth and throwing dust, grass and twigs into the air. The leopard was shocked and asked the tortoise why he was doing what he was doing.
The tortoise solemnly answered: “Leaving a mark. I may be powerless and I might die a meek death here. But I want people who will pass by this place in the future to say a leopard and his match struggled here.”
Esteemed Honourables, the moral of the story is that whatever your limitations, just strive to leave a positive mark in that House, on just this one, crucial national issue.
Whatever the offered trinkets and whatever the condign power they may have at their disposal, may each one of you on this crucial vote leave an indelible mark on the sands of history so that future generations will say “authoritarianism and its parliamentary match struggled here.”
Treachery or heroism, the choice entirely lies on each one of you.
Patriotic citizen,
Luke Batsrai Tamborinyoka
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