In a brief update, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) said Binga South legislator Joel Gabbuza was arrested for allegedly insulting Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.

ZLHR said Gabbuza was released on $200 bail. Said ZLHR: In Zimbabwe, authorities are stepping up their clampdown on citizens and today the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights secured $200 bail for
Binga South MP Joel Gabbuza.”

ZLHR said police arrested Gabbuza after he allegedly told mourners at a funeral that “the government is clueless about solving Zimbabwe’s
political and economic problems.”

Gabbuza is one of the many people who have been arrested for insulting Mnangagwa after the Zanu-PF leader
came into power through a military coup last

November.