Browsing: July 31

On the run activist Josphat Ngulube who has sought refuge in South Africa says he fled Zimbabwe in fear of his life as the state continues its witch hunt for conveners of the foiled July 31 protests that morphed into a national shutdown.

Political analyst Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda says President Emmerson Mnangagwa’a utterances that he would flash out political opponents highlights the embattled leader is continuing in the same trajectory of gross human rights violations and wanton crackdown on anti-government activists that were calling for the July 31 protests. 

Multiple award winning and Booker Prize nominee Tsitsi Dangarembga said she did not expect security forces’ politically motivated crackdown to extend to artistes and ordinary citizens that would result in her arrest.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened to flash out political activists and human rights defenders voicing against gross corruption and mismanagement of the economy as political tensions continue to escalate in the country. 

Fire brand MDC Alliance Vice Chairman and Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala has said that the July 31 protests that morphed into a national shutdown was a people’s victory.

MDC Alliance activists Joanna Mamombe, Netsai Marova and Cecilia Chimbiri and their lawyer Obey Shava in Harare this Friday claimed that security forces inflicted physical and emotional torture at a checkpoint when they were on their way to Harare Central Police.  

Rattled ZANU PF government has deployed over a dozen armed to the teeth police and army trucks in Bulawayo this Sunday.

Bulawayo based political activist Tawanda Muchehiwa, (the nephew of journalist Mduduzi Mathuthu) who was abducted by state agents shows the injuries he sustained from his captors.

Zimbabwean activists participating in the July 31 protests in Cape Town, South Africa on Friday resisted efforts to be dispersed by a suspected Zimbabwean state agent Gibson Karimakuenda wearing a ZANU PF mask.

A leaked WhatsApp audio of politician Margaret Dongo appealing to politicians, activists, trade unionists and ordinary citizens not participate in July 31 protests has emerged.