Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Nokuthula Moyo ordered Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga to immediately release 50 000 campaign T-shirts which were seized from FreeZim Congress by police at Beitbridge Border Post on allegations that they had been smuggled from South Africa.
Justice Moyo said FreeZim Congress established that there was no solid fact upon which a suspicion that the t-shirts had been smuggled. The judge ruled that the seizure of the T-shirts was unjustified and unlawful. Through its lawyers Majoko and Majoko Legal Practitioners, FreeZim Congress filed an urgent chamber applicattion at the Bulawayo High Court seeking an order directing police to release their T-shirts, which were seized on April 30. FreeZim Congress cited Matanga and the officer-in-charge of ZRP Law and Order Section in Beitbridge, Detective Inspector Moses Boora, as respondents.
FreeZim Congress’ monitoring and evaluation officer, Jonathan Jere, said the truck which was carrying their T-shirts was intercepted by police along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo road. Police ordered the truck to be driven back to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) warehouse where it was impounded pending investigations.
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