Media statement on the arrest of Zimbabwe journalist Hopewell Chin’ono Good Governance Africa denounces in the strongest possible terms the reported arrest of Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono ahead of mass demonstrations against corruption planned for 31 July 2020. News reports indicate that Chin’ono was taken into custody by Zimbabwean police this morning. His attorney, Beatrice Mtetwa, has described the arrest as an abduction by eight state security officials. Chin’ono himself recorded the incident on his phone and sent out a distress signal on social media. Chin’ono is an award-winning international journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is a Harvard University Nieman Fellow and a CNN African Journalist of the Year winner. He is also a
Countrymen, citizens, statesmen, kith and kin and my enemies , lend me your eyes and ears . The colossal urination and bastardization of our sovereign constitution by Mr Lipstick has undeniably reached diabolical proportions. We, the progressive , woke , civilized citizenry are appalled by the satanic / barbaric nexus of the nincompoopery and satanism exhibited by Mr Lipstick on the abduction and arrest of Hopewell Chin’ono and Jacob Ngarivhume respectively. For the avoidance of doubt, let it be know that we are not shocked . The political arbitrary / jingoism is the proclivity of a terrorist organization. The terrorist organization- Zanu PF is evidently feeding on our frustrations . Hopewell Chin’ono is being systematically victimized because he has been decl
POLICE in Harare have stormed journalist Hopewell Chin’ono’s home and further arrested opposition Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume as the Emmerson Mnangagwa government panics over the planned July 31 national demonstrations against corruption. Chin’ono has unsettled Zimbabwean authorities over his fearless reportage via his social media handles on massive corruption by President Mnangagwa’s administration while Ngarivhume is the organiser of the planned protests. The planned protests have received massive support from opposition political parties and civic groups. Earlier, Ngarivhume had twitted he was receiving death threats from persons sympathetic to government.
Mwonzora declares: Out of 111 MDC Alliance MPs, only 15 sympathies with Chamisa. The matter came to light at the High Court where Chamisa is challenging Khupe and her allies recalling legislators and taking over the MDC Alliances offices countrywide, Mwonzora said the document present by Chamisa’s legal team in court signed by MDC Alliance MPs was a forgery. MDC T Secretary-General Douglas Mwonzora has made sensational claims that less than 15 MDC Alliance MPs are still in Nelson Chamisa’s camp as he said a lot of them have decided to side with his party after the Supreme Court restored the MDC T’s 2014 party structures and declared Nelson Chamisa the illegitimate MDC T leader. Their application was accompanied by forged affidavits. The MPs were made to sign blank a
AN 11-YEAR-OLD teenager got shocked when she woke up to find her 16-year-old stepbrother in her blankets naked making sexual moves on her. A family member who spoke to B-Metro on condition of anonymity said the girl was asleep alone in her bedroom when her stepbrother tip-toed into her bedroom at around 1am last Friday. The relative said: "She was awoken by a heavy weight of her naked brother who was caressing her while making sexual moves on her. She screamed for help and her naked brother tried to flee but her twin brother intercepted him." The relative went on to say they led him to the living room and tied him with a rope. "He tried to flee but they caught up with him and pinned him on the ground. They tied him with a rope while the mother of the victim and a
A United States public relations firm hired by the Zimbabwe government to repair its image in Washington engaged in intense lobbying to project MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe as the legitimate leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition, documents seen by ZimLive reveal. The campaign began last September, shortly after New York-based Mercury Public Affairs LLC began working for Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as a subcontractor to Mercury International UK. Mercury was planning a trip by Khupe, who was due to lead a delegation of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) to the United States from March 25 to March 27 this year, but the trip was cancelled following the outbreak of the coronavirus. President Emmerson Mnangagwa set up POLAD to placate his r
Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling On property Sharing At Divorce. THE Supreme Court has ruled that a woman who did not make any direct contributions to the acquisition of can be awarded a 50 percent share upon divorce. Justices Ben Hlatshwayo, Chinembiri Bhunu and Tendai Uchena made the ruling in the case of Govati Mhora versus Emmaculata Mhora divorce matter in which the former was challenging the decision by the High Court to award the respondent a 50 percent share of their Harare matrimonial home on grounds that she had never made any direct contribution to the acquisition of the property. Mr Mhora stated that the house was acquired through his individual effort and he single-handedly raised the payment for the said property. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal and uph
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has once again shocked Zimbabweans after Vice President Kembo Mohadi on Wednesday commissioned a ‘small’ Pembi Bridge in Mvurwi, Mashonaland Central, reportedly constructed using US$1,8 million. The State media reported that the government spent US$1,8 million to construct the bridge which it claimed would be a key enabler of economic development in the province. “The bridge and its road approaches were constructed between August 2017 and September 2019 and links various districts in the province as well as other areas in the country,” the report said. “The old low lying single-carriage bridge was a high accident zone with 47 accidents being experienced there in the past years,” the report added. Ode
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has said that it is seeking a man who is beating up female farm workers in a video that has gone viral on social media. In a statement on its official Twitter page, police appealed to members of the public with information that can lead to the man’s arrest to come forward. The statement reads: The ZRP has observed a video circulating on the social media where a man is seen assaulting several women using what appears to be a hosepipe after forcing them to eat pepper. We are therefore appealing for information which may lead to the identification of victims and the assailant thereto. Anyone with information may visit the nearest police station or call the Complaints Desk on 0242 703631 or WhatsApp 0712800197. #notocrime iHarare reporte
Thokozani Khupe gets $7.5 million from the government. The government believes Khupe is the legitimate leader of the MDC Alliance and is entitled to the $7,4 million despite her having lost the 2018 elections to the same party he now claims to lead. Thokozani Khupe led minority party MDC-T received $7.5 million on Friday from the government despite the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance having obtained a provisional court order barring the Zimbabwean government from disbursing the funds to MDC-T according to the Political Parties Finance Act. Every political party represented in parliament is entitled to receive the funds as required by the Political Parties Finances Act Chapter 2:11. In the provisional order, High Court judge Justice Munangati Manongwa instructed the respondent
