By James Gwati-Authorities at Harare Polytechnic college have suspended a female student for hugging her male counterpart.

Yolanda Musithu was recently barred from entering the college premises for allegedly hugging a male colleague at the college premises in what the authorities claimed was a contravention of WHO and the college’s COVID19 protocols.

She was only rescued by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights who assigned an attorney, Dr Godfrey Mupanga who filed an urgent application at High Court seeking an order to compel Harare Polytechnic to allow Musithu access to the college.