Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Former Finance Minister and opposition figure Tendai Biti has called for the establishment of a National Transitional Authority (NTA) to manage Zimbabwe’s affairs, warning that the country risks descending into chaos.
Biti’s call comes amid growing tensions within the ruling ZANU PF party. Some members are pushing for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to seek a third term, a move opposed by a group of war veterans.
Adding complexity to the political landscape, a faction of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), led by Sengezo Tshabangu, has proposed forming a Government of National Unity (GNU) with ZANU PF.
This arrangement would delay the general elections currently scheduled for 2028, when Mnangagwa’s second and final term is due to end.
Speaking during a recent online discussion, Biti said Zimbabwe is in a period of political transition that must be carefully managed to avoid instability. He said:
There is a genuine transition taking place in Zimbabwe. There is a genuine transition that has to be managed. There is a genuine transition that has to be shepherded. It has to be scaffolded. If it is not scaffolded and shepherded, we are going to go into an implosion.
Biti added that key state institutions have been effectively captured and are now operating at the behest of the ruling ZANU PF party, rather than serving the interests of the nation. He said:
We have had a policy and a polity pillared on the emasculation of State institutions. There is no institution in Zimbabwe that is independent. There is no institution in Zimbabwe that is not an extension of ZANU PF’s Politburo.
Every institution—including those that I cannot mention because I am a practising lawyer—every institution in Zimbabwe has been captured and captured thoroughly.
Some political commentators have accused the ruling ZANU PF party of systematically manipulating the judiciary to weaken the opposition and suppress dissenting voices.
This alleged politicisation of the judiciary, critics say, has enabled the ZANU PF-controlled executive branch to operate with little to no accountability, effectively dismantling the constitutional system of checks and balances and entrenching authoritarian governance.
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