Zimbabwe News Update
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HARARE – Prominent constitutional lawyer Thabani Mpofu has expressed outrage over what he described as a “particularly disturbing” attempt to exploit ethnic sensitivities in a political scheme allegedly linked to efforts to legitimise the extension of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term of office.
Mpofu said the alleged recruitment of members of the Ndebele ethnic group to front a purported constitutional challenge aimed at discrediting opposition to the so-called “2030 agenda” amounted to a cruel and divisive political tactic.
“A particularly disturbing aspect of the Fuzwayo and Ibhetshu Likazulu saga is the deliberate attempt to put an entire ethnic group in the line of fire,” Mpofu said.
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