CIO DIO SHEPHERD MPESWE DESTROYS ZIYAMBI IN PUBLIC AND ZIMBABWE IS SHOCKED

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Despite Who came in from the cold, retired CIO officer Shepherd Mpofu destroys Ziyambi Ziyambi in public and Zimbabwe is shocked.

[00:00:11]Zimbabwe Let us talk about the code of silence, right? In every intelligence organization, every CIO, every CIA, every MI6 there is one rule that sits above all other rules.

[00:00:26]One commitment that every officer makes when they sign their contract and swear their oath.

[00:00:32]One thing that is drummed into them from day one of their career until the day they hand in their badge.

[00:00:40]You do not talk.

[00:00:43]Zimbabwe, you do not talk. You do not go public. You do not post on X. You do not give interviews. You do not publish dossiers. Whatever you saw, whatever you know, whatever made you uncomfortable, you take it to your grave. That is the deal.

[00:01:01]So, when a retired Central Intelligence Organization District Intelligence Officer goes public CIO DIO not not goes in public not not once, not twice, but repeatedly with detailed named specific allegations against a sitting cabinet minister. You are not looking at a man who fought the rules.

[00:01:24]You are looking at a man who decided the rules no longer apply because what is watching what he is watching happening to his country is more dangerous than any consequence the rules could bring.

[00:01:38]Meet retired DIO Shepherd Mpofu and the man he has decided to go after, Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi. So, who is Ziyambi Ziyambi and why is a CIO officer coming for him?

[00:01:53]Before we get into Mpofu's devastating public statement, let us establish exactly who Ziyambi Ziyambi is.

[00:02:05]Uh because his role in the CAB 3 project is absolutely central.

[00:02:10]Ziyambi Ziyambi has served as Zimbabwe's Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs since December 2017.

[00:02:18]Appointed by Mnangagwa immediately after the coup that brought him to power.

[00:02:22]He holds a Master of Laws degree in Constitutional and Human Rights Law from Midlands State graduating in 2016.

[00:02:38]A Master's degree in Constitutional and Human Rights Law from a Zimbabwean university awarded in 2016. And since then, this man has spent his ministerial career systematically dismantling the constitutional protections his degree was supposed to teach him to defend.

[00:02:58]The right Legal Analyst have described Ziyambi as a willing legal mercenary who presented himself to shepherd CAB 3 through the system amendments that go above and beyond what even the 2024 ZANU-PF National Conference resolution originally demanded demanded.

[00:03:22]A legal mercenary with a Master's in Human Rights Law shepherding a bill through Parliament that removes the human right of Zimbabweans to directly elect their president. The irony is so complete it deserves its own academic paper.

[00:03:39]And then in in a ZANU-PF youth program, Ziyambi went to say he explicitly stated that party positions should take priority over national constitutional principles.

[00:03:55]And that is on PF MPs would be whipped into total compliance on cap three. No secret ballot, no conscience vote, no independent judgment. Vote the party line or face the consequences. That statement is what triggered Shepherd Mpofu. And what a trigger it was. It triggered all of us, right? The retired spy speaks and he does not hold back.

[00:04:51]Right.

[00:04:55]Mpofu's public response circulating widely on social media and now verified by Pan the Tab Times is one of the most by now by Inside Africa Network, right?

[00:05:12]Right.

[00:05:15]Right.

[00:05:19]confusion in mind Right, but Bakani's statement month.

[00:05:26]Right, statement by Mpofu is one of the most withering public condemnation of a sitting cabinet minister in Zimbabwe's post-independence history. And it comes from someone whose professional background makes every word carry enormous weight.

[00:05:40]He called Ziyambi the mouthpiece for illegality.

[00:05:45]He called him the architect of constitutional abuse. He called him the master of legal deceit.

[00:05:52]Three titles given by a retired intelligence officer to the sitting Minister of Justice in public with his real name attached.

[00:06:02]In Zimbabwe where intelligence officers sign documents that could theoretically result in prosecution for exactly this kind of public statement. This man put his freedom on the line to call the Justice Minister a master of legal deceit.

[00:06:17]Listen to that sentence as many times as you need to, Mliswa. [clears throat] Now, let us talk about what Mliswa is actually saying substantively.

[00:06:28]Because it goes far deeper than name calling. His central argument is this, when a sitting Justice Minister stands before ZANU-PF youth and explicitly declares that party positions override constitutional law, governance does not just become politically questionable. It becomes institutionalized state capture.

[00:06:48]The constitution, the supreme law, subordinated to party resolution. The Minister whose entire mandate is to uphold the law announcing that the law comes second.

[00:07:01]And [snorts] here is where the documented evidence makes this even more explosive because Mliswa is not making this allegation in isolation.

[00:07:08]He is making it in the context of a documented official ZANU-PF internal confr- confrontation that the world already knows about.

[00:07:18]In September 2025, Vice President Chiwenga presented a formal dossier directly to President Mnangagwa during a politburo meeting accusing a network of politically connected businessmen including Kudakwashe Tagwirei, Wicknell Chivayo, Scott Sakupwanya, and Delish Nguwaya of orchestrating a vast capture of the state and the ruling party through illicit funding, inflated contracts, and political patronage. The dossier warned that this parallel power structure was eroding the authority of the party and undermining the president himself.

[00:07:52]A formal dossier presented by the vice president to the president in a politburo meeting naming [snorts] four specific individuals accusing them of capturing the state.

[00:08:03]Mr. Mugabe, Chiwenga enumerated specific alleged misappro- appropriations misappropriations including $1.9 billion from the sale of Kumbimba mine mining.

[00:08:19]$193 million from uh uh from a bank Yeah? Sakunda uh Sakunda allegedly right Mr. Mugabe my $800 million my $60 million Mr. Mugabe once said that another Chiwenga right?

[00:08:42]Those are not allegations from an opposition blog. Those are allegations from the vice president of Zimbabwe in a formal politburo document to the president naming individuals and amounts. In this Ziyambi's response he called the allegations reckless, malicious, and defamatory labeling it a narrative to discredit individuals who have been supporting the party for a long time.

[00:09:07]Ziyambi Ziyambi right? Supporting the party. The defense of a man accused of stealing billions from their own government from their own party's assets is that they are loyal supporters, long-term bakers, valuable allies.

[00:09:28]The justice minister's defense of alleged billion-dollar looting is but they are nice to us.

[00:09:36]Mr. Mugabe This is the man ship at Mpeswa is calling the master of legal deceit. And with the documented record in front of us, it is difficult to argue that Mpeswa is wrong.

[00:09:47]Where is the 200 million dollars? The question nobody in government wants to answer.

[00:09:54]Right. Mpeswa dropped the question that he has been circulating in Zimbabwe's political underground for months and nobody with power has answered. He publicly demanded transparent over an alleged 200 million dollars in legal fees funneled under Ziyambi's purview.

[00:10:10]Who was paid? For what services? On whose instruction? And was any portion of this money deployed to neutralize political or security resistance to get three?

[00:10:22]Two 200 million US dollars in legal fees in Zimbabwe where public hospitals cannot buy blankets.

[00:10:31]Where the Registrar General cannot afford the stationary to print ID cards.

[00:10:36]Where cancer patients are dying because 30 million dollars in sugar takes revenue produced two machines only.

[00:10:43]200 million dollars in legal fees for a constitutional amendment process that as Ziyambi himself has described as straightforward.

[00:10:52]Legally clear and requiring no referendum.

[00:10:55]If the legal argument is so simple and obvious, why did it cost 200 million dollars to make?

[00:11:01]>> [snorts] >> The question is outstanding. The government has not answered it. The Justice Minister has not addressed it.

[00:11:08]And the retired intelligence officer with the professional background to understand exactly what kinds of payments intelligence budgets can absorb is publicly demanding an audit.

[00:11:18]Zimbabwe.

[00:11:21]Right.

[00:11:22]Let's talk about the specific trigger for Mpeswa's public statement. Beyond the state capture context was Ziyambi's declaration about the secret ballot.

[00:11:33]Right, by announcing that ZANU-PF MPs will be whipped into compliance on cap three with no secret ballot, Ziyambi effectively told Zimbabwe parliament is not a deliberate institution. It is a rubber stamp. The vote is already decided. The outcome is predetermined.

[00:11:50]The debate is theater and any MP who thinks independently faces punishment.

[00:11:55]Mliswa called this exactly what it is, turning parliament into a theater of compliance meant to expose and punish independent thought.

[00:12:05]And here is the constitutional significance that every Zimbabwean must understand. Section 129 subsection 1 K of the Zimbabwe constitution requires MPs to exercise independent judgment in the public interest.

[00:12:20]A party whip system that removes the ability to vote by conscience on constitutional matters is not just politically uncomfortable. It is constitutionally questionable.

[00:12:30]Even Ziyambi's own response to Chiwenga's political broadcast stated Zimbabwe is a constitutional democracy with well-established institutions to deal with such matters.

[00:12:42]Mliswa a constitutional democracy with well-established institutions that the same man is now telling MPs to bypass by following party resolutions over constitutional principles.

[00:12:55]The Justice Minister cited the constitution's institutions as Zimbabwe's protection and then told parliament to ignore the constitution in favor of party resolutions in the same breath apparently without noticing the contradiction.

[00:13:10]Mliswa It's not like you want to say a banana is a mango.

[00:13:19]Zvirimumusiko.

[00:13:22]Let's talk about the fracture that cannot be undone.

[00:13:25]Here is what the Mliswa-Ziyambi confrontation tells us about Zimbabwe's political moment beyond the specific facts of case three.

[00:13:33]When Mugabe ran Zimbabwe, his intelligence services did not did not publish dossiers challenging cabinet ministers. They did not go on social media with named allegations. They did not risk prosecution to call the justice minister a master of legal deceit in public because under Mugabe however terrible his governance, there was institutional coherence. The security operators, the party, and the executive were aligned. Dissent was internal and silent. What is happening now is categorically different. For retired intelligence officers to break ranks given the strict secrecy laws and documents they signed indicates that the administration's push for a third term has crossed a critical red line.

[00:14:19]The men who are speaking are not doing it carelessly. They are not doing it for fame. They are not doing it for money.

[00:14:25]They are doing it because they believe what is happening to Zimbabwe's constitution is more dangerous than what could happen to them personally.

[00:14:34]Mr. Bhebhe, that calculation, that breaking the code of silence is worth the risk is the most ominous signal the Mnangagwa administration has received in this entire crisis.

[00:14:45]Not the court challenge, not the Catholic bishops, not the diaspora protest, the retired intelligence officer who decided his oath to Zimbabwe outweighed his oath to silence.

[00:14:58]Bottom line, whatever Z Y Ambi has a master's degree in human rights law, Zimbabwe deserves to see it used.

[00:15:08]Z Y Ambi Z Y Ambi has a master's of laws degree in constitutional and human rights law. He spent two years studying the very document he is now helping to dismantle. He wrote papers about very rights he is now helping to remove from 16 million Zimbabweans. And the retired CIO officer who spent his career in the shadows, never meant to be heard, trained never to speak, has decided that someone needs to say what the Justice Minister apparently forget forgot between graduation and ministerial appointment.

[00:15:46]The constitution is supreme, not the party, not the resolution, not the whip, not the constitution. Shepherd Mpofu said it publicly. Six war veterans are saying it in the Constitutional Court.

[00:15:57]Professor Madhuku is saying it with legal arguments. The Catholic bishops said it in a formal submission. A 32-year-old MP from Chiredzi said it on Citizens Voice Network.

[00:16:09]Blessing Rubaya Makumire and 40,000 people from 182 countries are gathering in Baku to discuss what good governance actually looks like. They gathered in [clears throat] Baku.

[00:16:23]But Right, Zimbabwe knows what good governance looks like. It looks like a constitution that means something, a parliament that thinks independently, a Justice Minister who uses his human rights law degree to defend human rights. Mpofu called Ziyambi a master of legal deceit. Zimbabwe is still waiting to find out if that assessment was wrong.

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