Major scandal erupts over Mnangagwa’s alleged 2030 term extension plot06 Nov 2025 at 13:23hrs |1836 Views

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News / NationalMajor scandal erupts over Mnangagwa’s alleged 2030 term extension plotby Business Daily06 Nov 2025 at 13:23hrs |1836ViewsZimbabwe faces a deepening political crisis amid explosive claims that senior ZANU-PF officials, in collaboration with elements of the judiciary, are engineering a backdoor constitutional maneuver to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term beyond the 2028 limit.According to judicial insiders and political strategists, the plan involves filing a proxy application in the Constitutional Court (ConCourt)—intended to be dismissed on a technicality.

This dismissal would then serve as a legal precedent to justify Mnangagwa’s continued rule without triggering a national referendum, as required by the 2013 Constitution.One senior government source revealed: “Officials from ZANU-PF, the Ministry of Justice and their political strategists want to cause a court application to be filed by proxy… to get the ConCourt under Chief Justice Luke Malaba to dismiss it to facilitate Mnangagwa’s 2030 political agenda.”The controversy follows ZANU-PF’s annual conference in Mutare, where delegates passed a resolution calling for the cancellation of the 2028 elections and an extension of Mnangagwa’s presidency to align with the Vision 2030 agenda.Legal experts warn that any amendment to presidential term limits requires a referendum and cannot be applied retroactively to the sitting president.

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