Zim stares down constitutional crisis

THE scene at a routine consultative meeting in Harare on March 1, 2026, transformed into a theatre of State-sanctioned violence when masked assailants stormed the offices of the National Constitutional Assembly. 

Among the injured was Lovemore Madhuku, a prominent constitutional law expert and opposition leader, whose battered frame has become a grim symbol of a nation teetering on the edge of a new authoritarian era. 

The attack, which left Madhuku with visible scars requiring urgent medical care, was not an isolated incident of criminality but a calibrated strike against those challenging a controversial constitutional amendment. 

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