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Fellow Zimbabweans, diplomats, civil society, friends of Zimbabwe, and esteemed members of the Fourth Estate, all protocols observed. It is my singular honor to address you all gathered here and by extension the nation at large. The urgency of our national crisis cannot afford us much time in the way of pleasantries, so kindly allow me to cut to the chase. {CLICK My IMAGE TO SEE THE ZAPU STATEMENT AS PDF}.
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ZAPU has called on citizens to reject any attempt by President Mnangagwa to extend his stay in office beyond 2028. The party warns that if he refuses to step down, they will encourage civil disobedience as a form of resistance. pic.twitter.com/iJ8i1qxl8U
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As the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU), we stand opposed to the ED2030 agenda being clamored for by Mr Mnangagwa’s loyalists and their proxies in captured opposition parties. ZAPU remains the only genuine opposition party free from any ties to ZANU PF. Ours is a government in waiting, the only viable alternative ready to rescue Zimbabwe from the rogue ZANU PF regime and its military-backed leader Mr Mnangagwa. He sneaked into power on the back of a military coup in 2017 and now seeks to extend his rule by staging another coup against the constitution of Zimbabwe. It is a treasonous ambition that no patriotic Zimbabwean should entertain.
What Mr Mnangagwa is trying to achieve is the grandfather of all illegalities. Our considered view is that the continuing chicanery dates back to 1980, when ZANU stole the people’s votes after we attained our independence from colonial rule. ZANU PF morphed into a rabid carnivore and chose to replace the colonial regime. Inspired and instructed by the Rhodesian era, ZANU PF continues to take the citizens of Zimbabwe for granted, and the people along with ZAPU and even the ancestors are fed up. During their national conference held in Bulawayo in October 2024, the ZANU PF delegates resolved first and foremost to extend Mr Mnangagwa’s presidential term from 2028 to 2030. This was done ostensibly to allow President Mnangagwa more time to oversee the fulfillment of ‘Vision 2030’, which he supposedly conceived but we all know this is not the case.
As we entered the New Year, calls for the ED2030 agenda only grew louder from Mr Mnangagwa’s foot soldiers and praise singers. The Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services, Jenfan Muswere, issued a press statement claiming that his Principal’s term extension agenda reflects the will of the people and should not be criminalized. The minister in typical ZANU style, tried to intimidate Church leaders opposed to the ED2030 agenda by labelling them Western puppets, much the same way as Mugabe labelled Catholic bishops a band of Jeremiahs for exposing the Gukurahundi massacres in the early ’80s. Echoing the same sentiments, ZANU PF Mashonaland East provincial chairperson, Daniel Garwe, recently said that the push for Mr Mnangagwa to remain in office is unstoppable, claiming it is the will of the people. While these wild claims are being made, Mr Mnangagwa’s silence is deafening.
Today we join the growing list of organizations and patriotic Zimbabweans refuting these claims by ZANU PF representatives. The list now includes genuine War veterans tired of watching in silence as the country is driven deeper into the woods by the clueless Mr Mnangagwa. We categorically reject the claims that the people of Zimbabwe wish to endure more suffering beyond 2028. Extending Mr Mnangagwa’s draconian rule beyond the constitutional limit set for 2028, amounts to the extension of industrial-scale looting, unemployment, poverty, crime and low life expectancy for Zimbabweans. Only the merchants of death and suffering can agitate for the extension of Mr Mnangagwa’s presidential term even by a week. His first term powered by a military coup and the second one secured from a stolen mandate in August 2023 have been disastrous enough for the people.
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Nowadays in Zimbabwe a day hardly passes without one being pummelled with the ruling party’s Vision 2030 propaganda. Every state-controlled media outlet is engrossed with this mantra, without a clear understanding of its meaning, origin or intentions. They have, together with the desperate electorate, been deceived by ZANU PF and President Emerson Mnangagwa into believing that Vision 2030 is a brainchild of his failing dictatorship, when in actual fact it is derived from the United Nations’ universal global development agenda as adopted at the historic UN Summit in September 2015 and came into force on 1 January 2016.
ZAPU would like to put it on record that Vision 2030 is not a brainchild of President Mnangagwa or his ZANU PF party. The components, adopted as the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) were never formulations of the Mnangagwa administration but were copied from the September 2015 UN Summit resolutions for a global sustainable development agenda. Trying to own this vision by Mr Mnangagwa and ZANU PF is not only a sign of deception, but also lays bare the inadequacies and bankruptcy of his regime on policymaking. It shows that the mediocre party and its president are not in touch with the realities on the ground, where over 90 percent of the population lives in abject poverty and neglect.
The ever-failing party, unable to meet the most basic of its mandate, now uses the UN development goals to manipulate the desperate electorate and also as political cover to violate the constitution to extend Mr Mnangagwa’s rule beyond the constitutional limit of two five-year terms. This is despite the fact that Mr Mnangagwa was not president both in 2015 when the UN resolutions were made, and in 2016 when they became enforceable. Only the gullible and naïve will be convinced by the ZANU PF propaganda machine that Mnangagwa is both the formulator and anointed implementer of Vision 2030.
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Open Letter from ZAPU President to the People of Zimbabwe
Dear Fellow Zimbabweans,
I trust you had a restful festive season with your families. As we record the first fortnight of 2025, allow me to extend my warm wishes for a year filled with hope, prosperity, and opportunities for all, not just for a select few. Sadly, as we reflect on the year behind us, we are reminded of the continued challenges that have plagued our nation. Last year mirrored the years before, marked by rampant plunder and corruption by those in power, with a culture of impunity that remains unchecked. Our public health infrastructure has crumbled, leaving hope only for a privileged few with enough wealth to access quality healthcare abroad.
Similarly, quality education, which should be a fundamental right for all, has become a privilege for an elite minority. The paradox of Zimbabwe as a nation endowed with abundant resources is painfully exposed by her failure to meet the basic needs of her people. The world watches in shock as our rich country extends a begging bowl for international aid while our elitist state actors bask in obscene opulence. This stark reality compels us to acknowledge that the current situation is unsustainable. It is time for us to rise as a united people to confront these injustices and build a better Zimbabwe.
The Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) has always stood as a beacon of hope and resilience. ZAPU led the masses in the fight against colonial oppression and white supremacy, a struggle rooted in the ideals of justice, equality, and freedom. Tragically, a splinter group hijacked power and betrayed the ethos of our struggle. The oppressive hand of the colonizer has merely been replaced by a black oppressor. The fact that we have witnessed sustained online debates, with people drawing comparisons between the Rhodesian and ZANU PF regimes, is an indictment on the pseudo-revolutionaries in power today. Their slogans espousing patriotism are nothing but political posturing and a smokescreen for their one-party state agenda.
