Overview

• The ruling party’s annual conference in Mutare approved a resolution directing the government to draft amendments extending President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s tenure by two years.
• Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said the state must initiate the required legislative changes, while legal scholars note the Constitution would need amending and some say referendums could be required.
• ZANU-PF’s parliamentary majority gives it procedural leverage, but opposition figures including Tendai Biti, Jameson Timba and Job Sikhala pledged to defend constitutional constraints in court and through civic action.
• Factional tensions deepened as allies of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga resisted the extension, with activist Blessed Geza criticizing the plan and police deployments discouraging street protests.
• Police charged ten mostly elderly activists in Harare with planning a protest calling for Mnangagwa to step down, and the term-extension drive unfolds as Zimbabwe grapples with hyperinflation, unemployment and corruption allegations.