The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) yesterday urged the government to stop using state security agents to indiscriminately shoot at protesting civilians who were exercising their constitutional right to demonstrate, reports NewsDay. And in another development linked to this week’s bloody protests in Zimbabwe over 150% fuel hikes, popular pastor […]
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Zimbabwe activist pastor acquitted of subversion
Zimbabwean social media activist pastor Evan Mawarire was acquitted in the High Court in Harare today on charges that he tried to subvert the government of former president Robert Mugabe and incited public violence during anti-government protests last year. He subsequently made an appeal to new president Emmerson Mnangagwa — […]
Emmerson Mnangagwa — Christian or crocodile?
Emmerson Mnangagwa, 75, Zimbabwe’s president-in-waiting is nicknamed “the crocodile” — in reference to his reputation for ruthlessness as former president Robert Mugabe’s “enforcer”. But a report surfaced in social media in the past week suggesting that the man linked with massacres of political opponents in the 1980s — and alleged […]