Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe visit puts constitutional crisis, not succession, at centre of regional concern

The article reframes Ramaphosa's 3 May visit to Mnangagwa's Precabe Farm in Kwekwe, positioning it not as a story about ZANU-PF succession politics but as a signal that South Africa regards Zimbabwe's constitutional crisis as a matter of regional concern in its own right. The piece argues that the dominant framing of the visit as being about the Mnangagwa-Chiwenga succession struggle understates the broader institutional stakes: the threat CAB3 poses to constitutional order, electoral integrity and regional stability. The visit is treated as evidence that Pretoria is watching the amendment process closely and that Zimbabwe's constitutional trajectory has moved onto South Africa's security and diplomatic radar.