Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono faces yet another court battle after the country’s Prosecutor-General, Kumbirai Hodzi, filed an application for the rescission of his recent acquittal by the high court on charges of publishing falsehoods.
Chin’ono was acquitted because the law used to prosecute him had been removed by the Constitutional Court and “no longer exists”, but Hodzi wants to resurrect the case and have the court reconsider its verdict.
“We have opposed the Prosecutor-General’s application and now await to hear what the high court will say, but we don’t think it has merit and there can’t be any other view save for the fact that section 31 is no longer part of Zimbabwean law,” Chin’ono’s lawyer Paidamoyo Saurombe told
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Marry Mubaiwa
UNWELL Marry Mubaiwa, estranged wife to Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, was on Monday remanded from her hospital bed at Harare’s Healthpoint facility in Belgravia as her health continues to deteriorate.
Mubaiwa, who is going through a nasty divorce with her powerful husband, is battling lymphoedema, which continues to cause wounds and swelling on her lower limbs.
This comes at a time her divorce case has been set for hearing before High Court judge Esther Muremba this week.
“She is very sick,” her lawyer Douglas Coltart told NewZimbabwe.com.
Beatrice Mtetwa, another of her lawyers, said the former model has been remanded to June 29 from her hospital bed.
By Mary Taruvinga
UNWELL Marry Mubaiwa, estranged wife to Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, was on Monday remanded from her hospital bed at Harare’s Healthpoint facility in Belgravia as her health continues to deteriorate.
Mubaiwa, who is going through a nasty divorce with her powerful husband, is battling lymphoedema, which continues to cause wounds and swelling on her lower limbs.
This comes at a time her divorce case has been set for hearing before High Court judge Esther Muremba this week.
“She is very sick,” her lawyer Douglas Coltart told NewZimbabwe.com.
Beatrice Mtetwa, another of her lawyers, said the former model has been remanded to June 29 from her hospital bed.
David Anodiwanashe is a researcher and scholar of political science and international development studies.
It has gradually become apparent that Zimbabwe’s governing party, Zanu PF, is perpetually endangering democratic processes by not only weakening, but also dismantling the opposition movement ahead of Zimbabwe’s 2023 general elections.
Freelance journalist Hopewell Chin’ono disembarks from a prisons truck as he arrives in handcuffs and leg irons at the Harare Magistrates’ Court on 6 November 2020. Chin’ono was arrested three days earlier over allegations of contempt of court, according to the police. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Aaron Ufumeli)
Its constant and alarming actions recalling members of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC Alliance) from parliament; the passing of the Constitutional Amendment Bill (Number 2); and the abductions, wanton arrests and torture of journalists such as Hopewell Chin’ono and opposition politicians such as Joana Mamombe