Terrence Mawawa

The ruling party Zanu PF has challenged the ruling by the High Court on barring the ruling party from forcing pupils and teachers to attend its rallies.

The ruling party through its legal team has filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe arguing that in the new dispensation pupils and teachers have never been forced to attend political activities.

The ruling party has also slammed the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission for presenting biased information to the High Court.

According to a report compiled by the ruling party’s legal team, the details presented to the High Court were outdated and devoid of facts.

“For the avoidance of doubt, it is clearly and unequivocally stated that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is totally against violence, hate speech and derogatory language.

As such nobody is compelled to attend political rallies. As a matter of fact that those who attend rallies do so voluntarily,” a member of Zanu PF’ s legal team said.