When I was informed of the Constitutional Amendment Bill (3) in December 2025, my intuitive response was that the matter had not been properly discussed.
Further, the acrimonious debate that followed raised some issue that have been simmering for a very long time.
I raised only one question. I pleaded with Mukuru’s proponents to consider the allegory of Dr Faust.
Dr Faust wanted the angel of ageing arrested. Mukuru, like Robert Mugabe before him, is hosing signs of ageing.
The most heart-rending lesson came from Savior Kasukuwere, a very bad brother, who once walked in Jerusalem with Peter and John.
He was a mean brother, if you ask the family of Edward Chironga in Chiweshe.
Kasukuwere is “alleged” to have organised the burning of the Chironga’s 300 pig farm. In the event, the Chironga brothers died from gun wounds.
Their crime was to have supported the Movement for Democratic Change (2008) election. MAVOTERA KUPI.
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In any crisis, there will be a losing side. Savior Kasukuwere has made a painful plea to the effect that a group that loses must be “accommodated” (his word) and not made to feel like they can no longer contribute to Zimbabwe.
Though acquitted twice, Kasukuwere finds himself a refugee in South Africa. As one watches the Dudula Amzansi chasing Zimbabweans from their country, I feel for the brother.
“Tina..asikufuna lapha.” We don’t want you here. It is a bitter lesson every refugee must assimilate in his being and learn to accommodate. Kasukuwere’s life in exile has not been easy. He now uses words like “accommodate each other” and “reconcile our differences as Zimbabweans.”
Verily, verily, the brother may yet be redeemed. The brother has discovered that Zimbabwe has so much to give, there are people in exile who should be making their contributions at home.
At an incident at Chaona Village (Chiweshe), Kasukuwere is “alleged” to have picked the oldest woman in the village who had dared to vote for the MDC. Goons obeying his orders beat the poor woman with big sticks (matanda).
As a principled and stalwart commissar, yesterday the brother (to borrow Pope Leo’s words) “Spoke from a position shaped by power-closely tied to the influence of (Robert Mugabe). Sit down and listen. We don’t have time for blind loyalty anymore.”
The Pope used the word “understanding” translated as “discernment”- a gift from the Holy Spirit-something which goes beyond the peripheral.
I put it to you, our readers that exile has chastened the brother and now his eyes have understanding of the meaning of tyranny.
Brother Kasukuwere fled the country in 2017, having fallen out of favour with the government.
Life has dealt a cruel blow. I am not sure whether he saw the video made by Dudula (May 1).
While the Dudulas (who are black) want all Zimbabweans chased out of South Africa, they gathered Bangladeshis and Indian merchants. They did not ask if these Asians were immigrants to South Africa.
I can also add that the Times of London publishes advertisements for registered nurses and other skills.
Kasukuwere, like a prodigal son realised the hatred directed against Zimbabweans.
He became aware that government should have taken a more conciliatory attitude towards the 27 000 unlicensed small-time gold-miners arrested in Zimbabwean. He suggested training.
This applied to the 57 000 cars were seized by the police for various infractions.
Kasukuwere argues that government often treats its citizens as enemies rather than members of a family who need assistance and education.
He is absolutely right.
He blames a hostile political attitude in Zimbabwe towards anything that does not comply with Zanu PF ideology.
Government could have conducted the debate on CAB3 from a neutral standpoint. Whatever point of view prevailed would have been regarded as “discernment.”
It is alright to have different opinions. Zimbabwe belongs to all of us, those of us who served under the flag of Zipra have been forgotten. Our properties, bought with disarmament wages have not been restored.
When Kasukuwere was commissar, his favorite restaurant was the Afro-Fusion on 4th Street in Harare. Whenever he and his goons parked their BMW’s., there would be whispers through-out the restaurant.
My editor would nudge me, even if we had not finished our lunch, and say: “Professor, you don’t want to meet these people. You better hurry up.”
There are many stories that surround the wickedness of this brother. But, I am compelled, by grace, to see his point of view and his predicament.
He has not been found guilty of any crime, it is therefore befitting that he should live in his own country free from harassment.
While, I am on this matter, I need to mention the sad story of Walter Mzembi. I have been asked to plead his case.
He is accused of abuse of authority, distributing television and media equipment after a World Tourism Organisation event without “authorisation.”
One of the bishops who was “blessed” is my brother in the faith.
Mzembi and his wife, a Cuban fashionista, has three children. He has suffered from chronic blood pressure for years.
With Mzembi in a dirty prison, a foreign wife stranded all alone in a distant land, she is but entirely without proper means of support and spiritual comfort.
The idea of keeping people in a dirty prison for years, before trial is definitely an abuse of authority.
I am perfectly aware that Mzembi, in his prime as Mugabe’s “beloved” tried to steal Mrs. Micthell’s poultry farm. I rebuked him then.
Kasukuwere is correct. Zimbabwe belongs to all of us.
*Ken Mufuka is a Zimbabwean patriot. He represented Zapu in the West Indies during the liberation struggle.
