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IN response to Let’s also push for reforms, as we register to vote, KELVIN MASEKO says: Zanu PF is not interested in instituting electoral reforms as it knows that once they are implemented, then it is out of power. The ruling party has a stranglehold on the security sector as well as the State media. It is busy tearing the Constitution apart just to keep hanging on to power. It is busy perfecting the art of rigging elections and we will see people born in 1910 voting, come 2023. The voters' roll is a mess . . . so much needs to be done to ensure a free and fair election and voter registration is the first step.

MILTON KASEKE says: We have been there before. Why does it take that long to reform because without reforms, there is no point in voting.

IN response to ‘Sad day for democracy’, SAMSON MUTYAVAVIRI says: This is MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora's elaborated strategy. Have a few senators vote in favour of amending the Constitution and give erstwhile comrades in Zanu PF victory while the rest appear to disagree with it so that he can fool the masses into believing that he is not a ruling party project. Trying to shoot two birds with one stone. Genius?

STEVE BIKO says: This is indeed a sad day for democracy in Zimbabwe. The people have been betrayed! A document voted for by 93% of the electorate has been torn apart by a handful of people bent on entrenching dictatorship. Cry my beloved country!

MAI RURU says: Democracies protect the separation of powers which is perhaps the most fundamental doctrine of constitutionalism. These amendments strip the Constitution of the safeguards and checks and balances which are meant to militate against abuse of power. Now it is free for all.

MUSOROBHANGU says: Section 387 of the Constitution has been shredded by 65 people. How can a few people remove such key constitutional safeguards of the Constitution without going to a referendum?