In a statement, Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo said the abduction was designed to coincide with a visit of a special rapporteur from the United Nations and while some African leaders are in Harare mourning the late former president Robert Mugabe.
“…A giant tree of Africa has fallen … Indeed, the bold, steadfast, revolutionary, Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe is no more. Today, Zimbabwe is mourning the demise of a great son of the soil, a visionary and champion of our empowerment.”
“The most thing that I liked about him is that he was bold. His boldness … He was bold like a lion. Everyone here is talking about how he was truly a great man.”
"Robert Mugabe helped liberate Zimbabwe, but his human rights abuses and gross economic mismanagement impoverished millions and betrayed his people’s hopes for their nation ..."
The former Economic Development Minister says Mugabe was power hungry as he never tolerated any form of opposition during and after the country’s liberation struggle of the 1960s.
Charles Ray, former U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2012, said while Mugabe made a lot of mistakes, one can never strip him of his legacy as “one of the founding fathers of Africa’s independence.”
“True, I resigned and in the note read in parliament when I resigned, I said I had done so in order to avoid bloodshed, in order to avoid conflict between the army and the people.” Mugabe
“… They attacked Jeppestown where I’m staying. They managed to break into the house and they took whatever they wanted and they burnt everything, things like (my) refrigerator, radio, TV and when I came from work I found nothing. Right now I’m left with the clothes I was putting on that day ..."
High Court judge Justice Thomson Mabhikwa made the ruling Thursday in the city in a case in which 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement Trust was seeking an order to nullify his election as Ward 3 councillor, citing his criminal record.
“The government of Zimbabwe must end its violent crackdown on dissent in the country and immediately investigate reports of beatings and torture by state security agents,” said Jon Temin, director of Africa programs at Freedom House ..."
“Intimidation, harassment and physical attacks on human rights defenders, trade union and civil society representatives and opposition politicians-prior to, during and following the demonstrations in Harare on 16 August - are cause for great concern."
“... A black Zimbabwean CIO agent and a white Zimbabwean, ex-Zimbabwean businessman sitting in a truck in a parking lot in Johannesburg to say we've got a plan ... They wanted to support the Lacoste faction and have Mnangagwa as the new president of Zimbabwe ..."
“… It is a profoundly dangerous precedent. If we set ourselves on a slippery road of jailing magistrates, judges and chiefs exercising a judicial function for having made decisions we don’t like ... we will destroy the fabric of the rule of law."
“The High Court has referred the people's lawyers application against the police prohibition order back to the Magistrates courts. The people's lawyers have decided not to go to the Magistrates Courts.
“The decision to disband the entire national team from the technical team to the players was arrived at after going through the technical reports which the association received and the recommendations from the ZIFA Technical and Development Committee ..."
“The U.S. government is concerned about renewed reports of abductions and assault of civil society members and opposition party members. Harassment and intimidation have no place in a democratic and pluralistic society ..."
Accordingly to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, the 37 year-old Mombeyarara was abducted by six heavily armed men who assaulted and severely tortured before dumping him at a quarry mine near Hatfield suburb in Harare.
In a letter dated August 8, 2019, signed by the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda, President Mnangagwa said he fired Mupfumira due to her inappropriate conduct.
"Today, citizens are suffering under staggering inflation, regular fuel and water shortages, rolling blackouts, a failing currency, and an increasingly repressive political environment ..."
In a statement, ZERA said with immediate effect the price of petrol has been increased from $7.55 to $9.01 per litre and diesel from $7.22 to $9.06 per litre.
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