HARARE FIRES: #Tajamuka Leader Mkwananzi To Appear In Court
27 August 2016
As the government crackdown on pro-democracy activists continues, police yesterday arrested and charged Tajamuka leader, Promise Mkwananzi with committing public violence.
Mkwananzi signed a warned and cautioned statement and will appear in court today.
The police have charged Mkwananzi with committing public violence and destroying property following Wednesday’s protest against police brutality held in Harare. Police suggest that Mkwananzi was behind the burning of cars and other properties in Harare’s Central Business District (CBD).
Police also claim that Mkwananzi who is being represented by Advocate Tonderai Bhatasara, is responsible for burning one of their vehicles, and a ZBC van even asserting that they have witnessing who saw him do it.
Mkwananzi is being held at Harare Central Police Station.
According to Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Mkwananzi becomes the latest person to be nabbed by the law enforcement agents after ZRP officers charged 13 men on Thursday 25 August 2016 with committing public violence. A freelance journalist Tendai Mandimika is among those detained and charged with committing public violence.
The ZRP officers had initially arrested close to 60 people made up of 42 men and 17 women, whom they had rounded up at Roslin House, located close to the MDC-T party headquarters in central Harare.
Out of 42 men, 28 were set free together with all the women on Thursday evening, following the intervention and representation by their lawyers Jeremiah Bamu, Dorcas Chitiyo, Sharon Hofisi and Agnes Muzondo of ZLHR.
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You will finish all of us cz evry1 ajamuka manje even police and soldiers vajamukawo asi you are forcing them to do so that’s why they are like that to povo but vajamukawo futi.Just imagine what do they eat after that extra shift you are forcing them to act?Evry1 is hungry and is tired for your poor business Zanu PF government.