Zimbabwe Rule of Law Journal |183 becomes much more difficult to achieve if the constitutional safeguards in terms of clear provisions that support the underlying values and principles of the constitution, corresponding legislation and institutional frameworks are lacking. In respect of Zimbabwe, there is a process of not only constitutional alignment but also constitutional amendments which must take place in order to have the legal and democratic fundamentals which justified the Nkandla judgment delivered by the Constitutional Court of South Africa. This process also needs to be enabled by a change in the political culture of the nation which must begin to interact with the President and all executive powers and representatives as constitutional beings, subject to the constitution, bound by the constitution and the democratic systems that it introduces. The lines have never been drawn more clearly as to the duties and responsibilities of the three branches of government as what unfolded in the unanimous Nkandla ruling and Zimbabwe can, and must, learn from those lessons and should hasten to follow regional trends of democracy in practice seen through the examples of other countries such as Zambia and Kenya.