Major Pars Praevalet. The Majority Has Never Been Asked. By Devine Mafa, Zambezia Economic Movement | 14 June 2026
Dr
@paultungwarara #Tungwarara has just quoted Latin to justify removing Zimbabweans' right to elect their own president.
Major pars praevalet. The majority view triumphs over the minority view.
Let us talk about that majority.
The parliament passing CAB3 was purchased at $50,000 per vote. A documented $31 million fund was assembled to secure parliamentary support for this bill. Opposition MPs have crossed the floor. Susan Matsunga stood in parliament and praised Mnangagwa declaring he needs two additional years. The majority Tungwarara is invoking was not born from the people of Zimbabwe. It was purchased from their representatives.
That is not major pars praevalet. That is major pars emptus est. The majority was bought.
But Tungwarara's post reveals something even more important than the Latin.
He told Rutendo directly — your opposing views on CAB3 actually work in our favor because now you cannot go around claiming that you pushed this bill through.
Read that again slowly.
Tungwarara is telling Rutendo — and telling Zimbabwe — that buying Rutendo's silence on Mnangagwa personally was never about CAB3. CAB3 passes regardless. The Toyota and the $200,000 were not purchased to get Rutendo to support the bill. They were purchased to stop Rutendo attacking the President while the bill passes.
Rutendo's opposition to CAB3 is — in Tungwarara's own words — useful to the government. It gives CAB3 the appearance of having faced genuine opposition from a previously hostile voice. It sanitises the process. It allows Tungwarara to say — even Rutendo opposed it and we still passed it. That is how strong our majority is.
This is the most sophisticated political operation I have witnessed in Zimbabwe's diaspora media space.
They did not buy Rutendo's support. They bought his silence on the President. They left his CAB3 opposition intact because that opposition serves them. A paid critic who still opposes the bill is more useful than a paid supporter — because the paid critic makes the bill look legitimate.
Rutendo has been used twice. First by Tagwirei's network for the sanctions campaign. Now by Tungwarara for the presidential image campaign. And both times the payment came after the work was done — one through a black Land Cruiser documented in a public Twitter Space debate by Joshua Maponga in mid May 2026, and one through a Toyota and $200,000 announced on Twitter this morning.
Two cars. Two payments. Two handlers. One voice that has been purchased twice and used both times against the interests it claimed to represent.
Now let me address the Latin directly.
Major pars praevalet is a principle of Roman law. It was designed to govern legitimate deliberative assemblies — bodies where members gathered freely, debated openly, and voted without coercion or payment.
It was never designed to govern a parliament where votes were purchased at $50,000 per seat from a documented $31 million fund. It was never designed to govern a constitutional amendment that removes the people's right to directly elect their president. It was never designed to justify extending presidential terms from five years to seven years without a referendum.
In a legitimate democracy the majority view does triumph. That is the principle. But the majority must be freely expressed. Not purchased. Not coerced. Not manufactured through a $31 million fund and eighteen social media accounts paid $10,000 each to manage the online narrative while the purchasing happens.
Tungwarara wants to quote Latin. Here is the Latin that applies to what he has done today.
Pecunia non olet. Money does not smell.
That was said by the Roman Emperor Vespasian when he taxed public urinals and his son complained the money was dirty. Vespasian held a coin to his son's nose and said — does it smell? The son said no. Vespasian said — yet it comes from urine.
$380,000 spent in one day buying online defenders, silencing critics, and purchasing a paid army for the President of Zimbabwe does not smell to Tungwarara. He quotes Latin and calls it philanthropy. He offers microfinance loans and calls it dispute resolution. He pays Rutendo $200,000 after Rutendo was already paid through Tagwirei's network and calls it settling a debt.
Pecunia non olet. The money does not smell to the man who spends it.
But Zimbabwe can smell it.
The roads are rubble. The hospitals are empty. ZDERA still blocks Zimbabwe from the IMF and the World Bank. And the Presidential Advisor is spending $380,000 in one day quoting Latin while the country he claims to serve cannot afford to pay its nurses.
Major pars praevalet.
The majority of Zimbabwe's 16 million people were never asked whether they want CAB3. They were never asked whether they want their right to directly elect their president removed. They were never asked whether they want seven-year presidential terms with no popular mandate required.
That referendum was never held. That debate was never had. That consent was never given.
The majority Tungwarara invokes is a parliamentary majority purchased with documented funds. It is not the voice of Zimbabwe. It is the echo of $31 million spent in the right rooms at the right time.
When the people of Zimbabwe are actually asked — in a free vote, on a free ballot, without a Toyota attached to the outcome — that will be major pars praevalet.
Until then it is just Latin on top of a bribe.
Devine Mafa Founder and Chairman, Zambezia Economic Movement Republic of Zemia — 14 June 2026
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