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Zimbabwe constitutional outreach document
VanaBantwana beDzimbahwe
June 13, 2010

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Preamble

Acknowledging that with the current global trend of growing corruption, greed or general moral decadence, lack of sincerity and trust, rise in hypocrisy among humankind and general rise in poverty among ordinary people or the voters (whom democracy claims to represent, empower and uplift), a non-conventional approach to governance and democracy is now a critical requirement than ever before,

Acknowledging that spirits (masvikiro/amadlozi), see where normal people cannot see and by giving them executive authority, Zimbabwe would never go wrong. Mbuya neHanda and Sekuru Kaguvi had foresight of the future when they chose to fight yet they knew that they were going to be defeated at that point, but if they had chosen to make peace and be subject to the north, none of us would have thought of the struggle for independence to this day. Sekuru Chaminuka, Mbuya neHanda and Sekuru Kaguvi had clear roles in pre-colonial Zimbabwe and could summon traditional chiefs for instruction.

Acknowledging that Zimbabwe, the land of our fathers is wholly African country which had a full African law and justice system before colonialism and several years after independence cannot be administered by laws foreign to Zimbabwe or Roman-Dutch law or laws of conquest but by laws inherent in African culture or Unhu (Tsika) / Ubuntu (Insika) and Zimbabweans or Africans in general are no under any obligation to be administered by laws of conquest or subjugation,

Acknowledging the supremacy and efficacy of African culture or Unhu (Tsika) / Ubuntu (Insika) in morality, hospitality, general goodliness, sincerity, judicial system, governance system and leadership selection among other attributes; such aspects of African culture can be appreciated not necessarily by strangers but by Zimbabweans by enacting provisions of African culture in the constitution,

Recognizing that African culture or Unhu (Tsika) / Ubuntu (Insika) in general has accorded our fathers guiltlessness among all nations of the world in areas of but not limited to being not party to annexation of foreign territory, not starting any known conflict, having no hand in proliferation of arms of barbarism (chemical, biological and nuclear) and being the most peaceful people for reason of Unhu (Tsika) / Ubuntu (Insika); African people must be seen enacting provisions of African culture to inspire other nations of the world,

Acknowledging that not only Zimbabwe but Africa as a whole seriously lacks a cultural, spiritual and linguistic identity and by making a constitution that fuses those three aspects together, the original African Spirit or Renaissance would return,

Acknowledging that the major motivation for crime prevalence is the belief by criminals that if they do their due diligence well, they will not get caught. African Culture can determine an occurrence of crime even where there is no witness or evidence and installing such provisions in the constitution would make Zimbabwe a crimeless state and it can be possible for a home owner in Mufakose or Luveve to go on a journey for a week and leave an unguarded house which shall have its main door closed only as far as making sure no stray dogs, cats and fowls would go in,
Acknowledging that the northern democracy model and justice system in application in Zimbabwe are based on northern models which may be prone to human errors of judgement, manipulation and are administered at a cost to the fiscus, it is of immeasurable benefits in cost and efficacy to institute African Democracy Model referred to hereafter as Matonjeni Democracy for Leadership Selection, Justice, Legislature and Governance systems with an African blue print,

Acknowledging cost benefits of employing the cost free Matonjeni Democracy Model in leadership selection visa vis financing the current Electoral Administration and legislature by ploughing into the constituencies money and resources gained or saved; to construct dams, irrigation schemes, small business loans for ordinary people (the former voters) to start their own businesses,

Acknowledging that globalization should not be misconstrued as integration of all people of the world for the reason that the global village uses no African languages, keeps no African culture and there is no practice of African spirituality or simply put the global village is an English village eating other cultures and languages without the battles of colonization,

Recognizing the important role played by cabinet in managing the business aspect of the country by employing the most qualified professionals or experts on the Zimbabwean market by floating all cabinets posts on the job market through the media and also considering the fact that true leaders and professionals find politics too base to engage.

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