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By Staff Reporter PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been challenged to show seriousness and ensure that all security forces personnel involved in the killing of six people and injuring another 35 on August 1, 2018, are prosecuted. On that day, security forces fired on Harare residents in the central business district following post-election protests on the delay by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in announcing presidential poll results. Mnangagwa later appointed the Kgalema Motlanthe Commission of Inquiry, which found that six people died and 35 others were injured by state security forces. Motlanthe is a former president of South Africa. However, three years later, Mnangagwa has not implemented the commission’s recommendations, including holding to account members of the security forces responsible for abuses and compensating the families of those killed or who lost property. ....
George Charamba PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba has dismissed claims that the imprisonment of MDC Alliance executive member Makomborero Haruziviishe was political persecution and lauded the courts for discouraging “hooliganism” and public disorder in the country. Haruziviishe (29), an MDC Alliance executive member, was on Tuesday jailed for 14 months for inciting public violence, a sentence which is being challenged by civil society groups and human rights lawyers. In a series of tweets on his @ Jamwanda2 Twitter handle yesterday, Charamba mocked MDC-Alliance for failing to save the activist from being sent to jail. He later told NewsDay that he was using the social media plat-form to “influence moral behaviour”. ....
Global Voices ON the morning of July 30, 2020, Zimbabweans awoke to the presence of heavily armed soldiers standing ready to crush anti-government protests scheduled to take to the streets the following day. No one was permitted entry into the central business district. The official line was that protests were prohibited in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. A few days prior, social media particularly WhatsApp and Twitter was abuzz with citizens sharing Virtual Private Network (VPN) applications to download, just in case the government shut down the internet again, as they did during protests in January 2019. Covid-19 and its subsequent government policies have had far-reaching implications on digital rights and media freedom in Zimbabwe. ....
Lockdown to shutdown: How COVID-19 stifled digital rights in Zimbabwe · Global Voices globalvoices.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalvoices.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.