Magwaliba denies drafting Zimbabwe's Amendment No. 3

Internet rumors just tried to rope a senior lawyer into rewriting Zimbabwe’s Constitution, and he flat-out says that is fiction.

Magwaliba rejects the drafting claim

• Advocate Thembinkosi Magwaliba pushed back on posts tying him to Constitutional Amendment No. 3.
• Online chatter from X painted Magwaliba as a mastermind behind the draft.
• His statement insisted he only saw the document after it was gazetted.
• The Government of Zimbabwe never tapped him for any drafting work, he said.

What Amendment No. 3 would change

• Zimbabwe Constitutional Amendment No. 3 Bill 2026 looks to stretch terms to seven years.
• Presidential and parliamentary mandates would jump from five-year cycles.
• The Zimbabwe Defence Forces would shift from upholding to acting in line with the Constitution.

Fee rumors and Moyo's denial

• Claims floated that Advocate Thembinkosi Magwaliba billed the Government of Zimbabwe and got stiffed.
• Because no brief ever came his way, he says no invoice exists.
• Professor Jonathan Moyo allegedly teamed up with him on the draft.
• Since Moyo left Zimbabwe in 2017, Magwaliba says they have never met or communicated.

Reputation and wealthy associate claims

• Articles also tied Advocate Thembinkosi Magwaliba to rich figures accused of shady gains.
• Those allegations, he argued, were flat-out false and damaging.
• Publications ran without asking for his side, which he said wrecked his professional standing.
• Magwaliba asked that his rebuttal spread as widely as the original posts.