Staff Reporter
HARARE – Popular apostolic leader Daniel Matamba, known as Madzibaba Benjy, has thrown his weight behind the Citizens Advocating for a Better Zimbabwe (CAB3) initiative, declaring that President Emmerson Mnangagwa should be granted a term extension to transform the country into a “mini United Arab Emirates” by 2030.
Speaking during a prayer gathering in Harare this week, the Johanne Marange apostolic cleric said Vision 2030 is Zimbabwe’s “roadmap to prosperity” and called for unity around the government’s development agenda.
“CAB3 has come to support that vision, to push for development, discipline, and for our children to have a future rooted in our values,” Madzibaba Benjy told congregants.
The religious leader, whose services draw thousands across the country, also warned that drug and substance abuse and early marriages were undermining national progress.
“Drug and substance abuse must be stopped. It is destroying our sons and daughters,” he said. “Early marriages must also be stopped. Our children need to go to school, to grow, to build themselves before they carry the burden of family.”
Madzibaba Benjy then linked the success of Vision 2030 to extended leadership, saying Mnangagwa should serve a seven-year term through to the end of the decade.
“If President Dr Emmerson Mnangagwa is given a term extension to seven years and we go through to the 2030 agenda, Zimbabwe shall be a mini United Arab Emirates, a Dubai,” he said.
CAB3 has positioned itself as a citizens’ movement supporting the government’s target of attaining upper-middle-income status by 2030. Madzibaba Benjy’s endorsement adds to growing backing from religious leaders who say faith communities must mobilise around national goals.
He closed his address with a call for prayer and discipline: “Let us pray for our country, let us protect our children, and let us work together so that by 2030 we see the Zimbabwe we dream of.”
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