By A Correspondent- Opposition MDC vice national chairperson who is also Zengeza West legislator, Job “Wiwa” Sikhala has predicted doom and gloom for the new year 2020 adding that reflecting on what transpired in 2019, there was no room for optimism of a better year ahead.

Sikhala, who has a pending treason case which is set to continue this January said this in an exclusive interview with Chief Svosve on ZimEye, Friday evening.

He said:

“When we review how 2019 was, the first thing that we point out is that at the beginning of the year Zimbabweans lost their fundamental rights.

There was the gross violation of people’s rights… there was the total breakdown of people’s rights when soldiers were deployed in urban and the rural areas.

Tens were arrested, 17 people killed and women were raped during this period. There was the total breakdown of the fundamantal rights of citizens.

The political space was closed while there was a clampdown on civil society organisations.”

On dialogue and Thabo Mbeki as mediator of the Zimbabwean political crisis, Sikhala said:

“Thabo Mbeki does not have the panacea for Zimbabwe…”

Responding to a question on what he thought about his pending treason trial, he said:

“This is a Political Trial…”

“The Zimbabwean people will one day rise and say, Either way I’m going to die.”

The Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation, ZHRO said in a comment: “Apparently, the firebrand MDC Vice National Chair Person and Zimbabwean MP, could be sentenced to execution by hanging or to 23 years incarceration.

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