18/11/2025
By Reason Wafawarova
Zimbabwe’s politics has become a circus with a tired script: the ruling party expels someone for alleged “indiscipline,” that someone launches a self-proclaimed revolutionary project, declares themselves a sworn enemy of corruption, and then — after a short but noisy sabbatical of “principled activism” — quietly returns home clutching a begging bowl and a freshly ironed ZANU PF shirt.
The latest star in this endlessly recycled comedy is Godfrey Tsenengamu, a man once convinced he was the vanguard of moral regeneration — until morality proved too expensive to maintain without state-fuelled allowances.
His return to ZANU PF is not a political event. It is a transactional pilgrimage, a re-entry ritual into a system he never truly left, except in rhetoric.
And like all political pilgrims returning home, he comes bearing gifts: a bag of “opposition defectors” — including a Tsvangirai sibling and Gandhi Mudzingwa — all paraded as trophies of a supposed national awakening.
