PCC and Former ZIPA Vets Reject CAB3, Demand National Dialogue to Reset Zimbabwe
By Desire Tshuma
Harare – The Platform for Concerned Citizens (PCC) and Former Members of the Zimbabwe People’s Army (ZIPA) have come out in “unreserved rejection” of the Constitution Amendment No. 3 Bill, arguing it will deepen Zimbabwe’s crisis instead of solving it.
In a statement released on 2 June 2026, as Parliament resumed sitting and began formal consideration of CAB3, the groups said the Bill’s consultation process was flawed. They cited “disruptions and violence” during hearings and “manifest manipulation in favour of partisan support” for the amendments.
PCC and ZIPA aligned themselves with a growing coalition of critics that includes Retired Generals, the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference, the Defend the Constitution Platform, the Constitution Defenders Forum, and the National Constitutional Association.
“ will provide no solution to the immiseration and marginalising of Zimbabwe citizens, all of whom wait in vain for the realisation of the true gifts of independence 46 years later,” the statement reads.[CAB3]
The groups said the only way out of the current impasse is an “inclusive national dialogue,” a call they say has been repeated by churches and by citizens across the political divide, including within ZANU-PF itself.
They also praised a statement made earlier on 2 June by Air Marshal Henry Muchena (Retired) on behalf of Retired Generals and Former Senior Civil Servants, describing it as “unequivocal about the intentions behind the Bill and the progenitors of it.”
PCC and ZIPA are now calling on Parliament to reject CAB3 and urging citizens to “remain steadfast in their rejection” and to insist on a new path forward through “an open, inclusive” national dialogue that rejects “any elite pact.”
The statement was signed by Ibbo Mandaza, Co-Convener of PCC.
