By Robert Tapfumaneyi
CONTROVERSIAL socialite and businesswoman, Susan Mutami has again thrown the proverbial cat among the pigeons, announcing Monday she will challenge independent MP Temba Mliswa in his Norton constituency 2023.
Mutami is a former girlfriend to Mliswa.
The two had a nasty fall-out earlier this year although Mutami later revealed she was pregnant with Mliswa’s twins.
Mutami, who is based in Australia, has confirmed her ambitions of joining mainstream politics back home and has not hidden her intentions to try her luck in Norton.
She did not reveal whether she would do this as an independent candidate or with the backing of a political party.
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Jeffrey Moyo, a freelance journalist for The Times who is based in Harare, was being held on charges of violating the country’s immigration laws. His lawyers say the accusation is spurious.
Joana Mamombe and opposition MDC-Alliance party youth leader Cecilia
Chimbiri by granting them RTGS$20 000 bail.
Hon. Mamombe and Chimbiri had spent 61 days detained at Chikurubi
Maximum Prison after several of their freedom bids were dismissed by
judicial officers at Harare Magistrates Court and at Harare High
Court.
bail appeal, set aside Harare Magistrate Denis Mangosi’s ruling of 13
April 2021 denying them bail after they cited changed circumstances as
a basis for seeking to be set free.
In denying Hon. Mamombe and Chimbiri bail, Magistrate Mangosi had
ruled that the duo has a propensity to continue committing similar
offences hence setting them free would undermine the bail system and
Arrested MDC Alliance Leader in Court Over Flash Protest
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Movement for Democratic Change Alliance youth leader, Obey Sithole, is expected to appear in court for an initial remand on criminal nuisance charges for allegedly participating in a demonstration early this month.
In a tweet, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) said Sithole, who spent his second day in police custody on Tuesday and is represented by Obey Shava, allegedly protested in public warning the government to desist from brutalizing MDC Alliance activists.
The ZLHR, in a statement, further said some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers released him from police cells yesterday morning to appear at Harare Magistrates Court “but later made a volte-face.”