DEVINE MAFA

Zim's Min of Justice dropped a massive clanger which is potentially tying Zim's Constitutional Court judges in "knots," and on paper, is capable of derailing the incumbent's massively unpopular tenure extension agenda. In his rush to pass the amendments, he failed to comply with mandatory constitutional requirements when he ommitted to include no less than 10 of the amendments in the list published in the Government Gazette on 16 February 2026. Despite that glaring failure, those amendments still proceeded to be formally enacted into law. The Gonese judgment / precedent holds such amendments to be a nullity, so it's difficult to see what room Ziyambi himself or the CC has to wriggle out of this! The only way they can do this, in my respectful view, is to try & place reliance on a technicality to avoid ventilating this point on its own merits! Outside of that, I see no way out in terms of the law! The Judges are clearly in a spot of bother & tearing the hair out on that one! Ziyambi's clanger has handed them the ultimate impossible job!