Why did he do it?

The article is a first-person account reflecting on a liberation-era figure and the author’s doubts about a subsequent constitutional breach. It describes a teenager in Rhodesia who joined insurgents in the mid-1960s, served as a runner, participated in attacks that led to the killing of a white farmer and his family, then helped derail a train. After being betrayed and arrested, the teen was sentenced to death but was saved by a Catholic priest, later spending 10 years in prison in Harare. Following amnesty, he was deported to Zambia, became a lawyer, then joined ZANLA in Mozambique, eventually returning to Zimbabwe to become the youngest minister in the new government and serving for 37 years. The author recalls a presidential inauguration in 2018 and questions why the leader broke the 2013 national constitution.