The Clause Devastates Plans

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If the constitution making process will end with the incoperation of the clause 642,(Newsday 24/02/2012) the head of the state will be automatically be thrown into the political dustbins. The move that has been taken by the COPAC in the restoration of the clause can be viewed as an attempt to "fix" the head of the state.

An attempt might bring total transformation in the Zimbabwean political terrain. However, if the clause is being revised so as to fix one person in the political landscape this renders it biased.

One of the troubling issues is that the clause was proposed by the drafters not the public. The action then parallels with principles of the constitution making process which states that it has to be a people driven constitution not a stratified population driven policy.

President Robert Mugabe has been on power for almost three decades and there has been no aggressive competitor on the political terrain who has attemted to stamina him apart from MDC. MDC-T has been the only political party that seems to be posing  threat on the regime of the President Robert Mugabe. However, attempts by the political parties to ouster the political guru has been futile as there has been perpetual application of  coercion to garner political mileage. For example in 2008 PM Tsvangirai withdrew from election track after there was heavy flogging of the MDC-T supporters and the civilians.

Conventional means to stamina the President have been redundant. This has forced the oppositional parties to come up with  "noble legitimate" strategies, clause 642 is one of the tactics. The clause actually bans presidential candidate to serve for more than  two five-year terms. If this materialises before elections, President Robert Mugabe wont contest for the next upcoming elections.