By Jealousy Mawarire -Dear Zimbabweans, Ziyambi Ziyambi is going to table his “Memorandum to Cabinet on the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2026” tomorrow. It is interesting that ZZ is proposing a battery of constitutional amendments.

The most important, certainly, is the Amendment of section 92. Section 92 gives every Zimbabwean, eligible to vote, the right to directly elect a president. That is the right that ZZ wants to take away from Zimbabweans & repose that in parliament. After realizing that Zimbabweans generally vote for Zanu-PF but not for its Presidential Candidate, ZZ wants to punish Zimbabweans by taking away their right to vote their president directly.

This is an antithesis to one of the major objectives of the liberation struggle, the right to vote, to choose our leaders directly.

The armed struggle was fought for universal suffrage, what they called ” one man (sic), one vote” but Ziyambi Ziyambi now wants to take away that right and replace it with “16 million people one parliamentary vote”.

We choose MPs to represent us in law making in the legislature, not that they take away our right to choose a president of our choice.

The other Amendment that the unelectable Ziyambi is proposing is section 212 which mandates the Zimbabwe Defence Forces to “uphold this constitution”. Ziyambi wants the “uphold” part deleted. He wants the duty to uphold the constitution to be removed from ZDF and replaced by a clause which puts the ZDF “under” the constitution. It is quite clear that ZZ & ED are afraid of a coup justified by section 212 where the army exercises its role of “upholding” the constitution.

The other interesting amendment is that of section 281 (2). This section bars “traditional leaders”, chiefs, from being partisan, being members of political parties & advancing the cause of any political party. Ziyambi wants to remove that safeguard, to allow chiefs to be political party functionaries.
Only people who have been rigging elections through regimenting rural folks to vote for Zanu-PF using chiefs would want to legalize this form of electoral fraud through legislation.
Ziyambi also proposes to return the custody of the voters roll to the registrar general, kwaMudede, like it was pre2013.
We all know the challenges and conflicts this generated and you wonder why one wants to turn us back to yesteryear contentious issues? So that they rig elections using the registrar general like in the past? So what was the use of the new constitution in 2013 if we are going back to provisions of the Lancaster House Constitution?

Ziyambi also wants to create “a Zimbabwe Electoral Delimitation Commission whose sole purpose is marking electoral boundaries. So for 7 years this Commission will be just studying how to gerrymander constituencies inorder to rig elections for Zanu-PF? Vakomana!

Ziyambi also wants to replace the provision in section 101 which allows the “first Vice President” to assume ” office as President until the expiry of the former president’s term of office” in the event the sitting President, dies or resigns.
Instead, Ziyambi wants parliament, withing 90 days, to elect the replacement president.
It is clear that this Amendment is being done to block VP Chiwenga from succeeding ED in the event ED dies in office or resigns.
Surely, Ziyambi and his mischievous cabal are dragging the whole country into some political chaos just because they don’t want VP Chiwenga to succeed ED?

Anyway, Dear Zimbabweans, I will post the fuel document tomorrow for your personal perusal. Meanwhile, read the parts that X allowed me to share here.