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Copac, Copac, Copac! Do villagers not say an animal with a famous name does not fill the hunter’s basket?
Would you want the Copac management team to complete a flawless Constitution and end the life span of a money-spinning venture where senior operatives have been making US$200 per day? Malodorous!

What with the behind the scenes payments that have lined pockets to bursting point? What with the systematic interference by the West! 
For, only a fool chops off a tree branch he sits on. This is why in the village, the animal called democracy is an idiot, in most cases it produces poor results and the grey haired, including the soothsayer, the autochthon of knowledge and wisdom, have never believed in it.
It is this animal in its neo-liberal form, exported to us by Albion, that has brought the entire country, the land of Munhumutapa to a grinding halt.

Nehanda, Kaguvi, Chaminuka, Mukwati, Lobengula, Mzilikazi and many others, must be turning and twisting in their graves with anger and disbelief that the country is bogged down on a document whose crafting mishap defies diction. So should our national heroes and heroines who lie buried or unburied.
Copac has failed the people of Zimbabwe. We, the villagers told them the Zimbabwe we want. We the villagers were categorical, but we the villagers, are today even ashamed why we even opened our mouths to these people.

What we said is far too distant from what we read. Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana, Douglas Mwonzora and Edward Mukosi are playing mock house with this country. (Mahumbwe, amathope!) Vanotamba nayo nyika. Varikuparadza nyika, varikuwondomora nyika yedu.
This villager does not hate the three but I am sure that in the village it is common knowledge that the lead cow (the one in front) gets whipped the most.

The three are our sons but maybe the soothsayer is right to say “too much education confuses”. The three look lost in the matrix of making the Zimbabwe we want! But the soothsayer always gifted with the art of seeing what happens today tomorrow, contends, “If you have money you can make the ghosts and devils turn your grind stone.”

Ask European Union and the United States of America, the financial muscle behind regime change attempts. Their dirty hand is clear, stirring Zimbabwe into an abyss. Deliberately, cruelly and insanely, we are being driven. Pushed, shoved, kneed and punched below the belt, until we do what they want. We will never have the Constitution we want, never, ever!

Copac is feeding on our humanism, feasting on our dignity, defecating on the graves of our ancestors, fouling our history, shattering our hopes and destroying our future. In the end, we will have a Constitution that will make us, a people lighter than the smallest piece of paper.
No weight, no name, no identity and undignified. Divided and at war with ourselves, at war with our conscience. Yes indeed at war with our history. Our country! Look at the way Copac elbowed out Major General Douglas Nyikayaramba and Jerry Gotora, the two qualified banks of political and social knowledge of this country.. And,

today are the two gentlemen not vindicated?

This villager went through the draft constitution and is not shamed to say, it has become a circus of great proportion and that we might not have it.
Kenya, that country with similar political polarisation has taken 11 years to come up with a constitution and we are into year number what?
The soothsayer says more than half the time some high-ranking members of Copac are under the influence of holy waters, bottled in brown bottles.

So, to expecting anything good from these guys is akin to expecting honey from a fly. It will not happen.
The villagers have been waiting and waiting for the new constitution but it has remained a distant mirage. Confusing and irritating even! Why not just forget about this document that has almost ground our nation to a halt.

From the look of things, even if we were to get a new constitution today, it would be horrible and whichever political party wins the next election, will have to restart the process for sober constitution.

The one we are working on is not ours. It will never be ours. It will be Euroecentric not Afrocentric. It will be foreign and not indigenous.
We the indigenes were used and abused as smokescreens, behind which Europe and America hid their heinous regime change, disguised as ultra democracy. They already had a constitution they wanted, they had everything they wanted in place but needed a process to justify their document.

The hullabaloo will continue. Life will never be the same here until that constitution is made the way they want. It defies logic why the issue of gay rights continues to come up when we made it clear that it was taboo. Can anyone explain to this villager how that issue continues sneaking back to the draft?
It defies logic why it had taken this long to complete the document. It defiles logic why there has been one problem after the other and the problems never end.

It defies logic why Copac treats Zimbabwe as if it has never had a constitution before. The Kariba Draft is far much better than the nonsense Copac has come up with. Even the Lancaster House written Constitution sounds much, much, more better than this silly document we now have.
Villagers sitting under a Muchakata tree would have produced something more better, something more Zimbabwean and something more humane than what our learned lawyers and their team have produced.

Why then waste our time on this document when we can easily set it aside and deal with it later, when we have played our politics? We certainly risk another Kenyan scenario, another 11 years on writing something that can never assist us.

The groin pains in sympathy with the sore.