Fuzwayo recently faced a backlash after approaching the Constitutional Court over plans by Zanu PF to extend President Mnangagwa’s stay in office, with critics accusing him of fronting a “sham” court challenge designed to fail and create a legal opening for the so-called 2030 ambition. However, in an interview with CITE, Fuzwayo dismissed the allegations as “jokes” manufactured by people who previously supported President Mnangagwa when he rose to power through the 2017 military coup. The activist said people know him for his long-standing human rights work in Matabeleland and anyone suggesting Zanu PF is using him is either misinformed or was deliberately malicious.
“These are jokes. Even Zanu is shocked that it can use me. Zanu does not come to where I am.
Whoever thinks I have been sent by Zanu, I don’t know what they would have smoked, perhaps dangerous weed,” he said. “Me and Zanu will never work for each other. I will never agree to be used by Zanu, especially knowing how Zanu abuses people.
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To me, Zanu is guilty of killing people, guilty of destroying the economy. Their priorities are misplaced. Look at the President giving out money when the country has no ambulances and sewers are bursting everywhere.
There is nothing that can ever mix me with Zanu.” Fuzwayo said the accusations were pushed by opportunistic commentators and lawyers who misrepresented his constitutional challenge for personal gain and online traction. “The one who sings the song knows it, the ones who are saying I have been given money are used to being given money from Zanu. let’s not say their names because at Ibhetshu we respect people.
The ones who are saying I have been given money are the ones used to being given money by Zanu,” he said. “Some are lawyers who have represented Zanu but pretend to be holy when speaking to the public. We know them.” Fuzwayo accused some of his critics of hypocrisy, saying those attacking him publicly supported President Mnangagwa when the military removed former President Robert Mugabe in November 2017.
“We never approved of Emmerson’s candidature when the coup was done in 2017. Yet some who are saying I was given money are the same ones who said, ‘let’s give him a chance.’” he said. “We knew even then that giving Emmerson a chance would change nothing. Those who supported the coup are now pretending they hate him more than everyone.”
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