MDC Councillors And Activists In Court Over Anti-ED Demo

Six Kwekwe-based MDC activists this Thursday appeared before a local magistrate for participating in an unsanctioned demonstration.

The activists, councillors Melody Chingarande and Washington Moyo, Midlands provincial youth chairperson, Sekai Marashe, Lovemore Savanhu, Leonard Musemwa and Rodrick Nyamushosho allegedly denounced President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule during the demo. Court papers read:

On the 20th of March 2020, between 18:30-18:40 hrs and at Mbizo 4 Shopping Centre, Kwekwe, the accused persons, together with some of their accomplices who are still at large, conducted an unsanctioned demonstration,” the court papers read.

They rallied around Mbizo 4 Shopping Centre for about 19 minutes singing the words, ‘Mnangagwa wauraya nyika,’ loosely translated into English Language – ‘Mnangagwa has destroyed the country’.

Magistrate Shirley Tembo granted bail of $1 000 to each of the accused ordering them to return to court on 23 April.

The government last year blocked numerous MDC demonstrations alleging that there was evidence to suggest that they were going to degenerate into chaos.

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