Zimbabwe War Veteran Says Mnangagwa, Top Zanu PF Officials Deployed Youth to Harass Me, Farm Workers
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Former Zipra combatant, Frederick Mutanda, who is among people and organizations that filed a court application opposing the extension of the term of office of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Luke Malaba, says some ruling party youth are camping at his farm in Mutorashanga, Mashonaland West province, accusing him of being antigovernment.
Mutanda claims that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other top state and party officials are aware of what’s happening at his farm as the youth were given motorbikes by Zanu PF officials in Harare to travel to the province to intimidate and harass him.
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Some Zanu PF youth have invaded a Mashonaland West farm owned by war veteran, Frederick Mutanda, who challenged in court President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s extension of Luke Malaba’s term of office, according to an online publication, ZimLive.
ZimLive quoted Mutanda as saying 25 youth from Harare, using motorbikes and four vehicles, started camping at his Mutorashanga farm on Tuesday claiming that he is anti-government.
Two weeks ago, Mutanda, the Young Lawyers’ Association of Zimbabwe, Kika Musa of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and others sued the Judicial Service Commission and Attorney General when Mnangagwa extended Malaba’s term of office by five years.
Kika argues in his founding affidavit that the JSC’s view that the appeal field by the government has suspended the operation of the judgment of the High Court “is incorrect as the judgment of the court is a declaratur and is for that reason not suspended by the noting of an appeal.”
Zimbabwe Chief Justice Malaba Back At Work
May 25, 2021
FILE: Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa,left, is congratulated by Chief Justice Luke Malaba after taking his oath during his inauguration ceremony at the National Sports Stadium in Harare, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018.
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Zimbabwe’s Chief Justice, Luke Malaba, whose extended term of office was nullified recently by the High Court, is back at work.
According to the state-controlled Herald newspaper, Malaba returned to work after a notice to appeal against the High Court decision was filed at the Supreme Court by the government last Monday.
The newspaper quoted Judicial Service Commission secretary, Walter Chikwanha, as saying Malaba is currently executing his judicial functions. “Chief Justice Malaba has always been at work since the day the government filed a notice of appeal against the decision of the High Court. It’s by operation of the law. Once the appeal was filed the order of the High Court wa