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Opinion / ColumnistWhy defending Zimbabwe’s Constitution is defending the countrybyChofamba Sithole25 mins ago |19ViewsWhen Nelson Chamisa recently declared on X that “there is no constitution to protect or defend” and that “we must instead defend and protect our country,” his words struck a chord with many Zimbabweans disillusioned by the state of our politics. But they also risk leading us astray at a moment when clarity and focus are essential.To suggest that there is no constitution to defend is to surrender the very ground upon which the democratic struggle was built. Our constitution is not some detached piece of paper-it is the living embodiment of the people’s will, painstakingly won through generations of struggle. To abandon it is to abandon Zimbabwe itself.We have been here before.
In the late 1990s, Zimbabwe was gripped by a similar sense of national crisis. Corruption, authoritarianism, and economic decline had hollowed out public confidence in the state. Recognising the depth of the malaise, a broad coalition of social movements-from labour unions to churches, students, women’s groups, and civic activists-concluded that the country’s salvation lay in a new constitutional order.Out of this awakening came the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), spearheaded by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions under the leadership of Gibson Sibanda and Morgan Tsvangirai.
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