Judicial capture the demise of activism in Zimbabwe

Judicial capture the demise of activism in Zimbabwe

Kwekwe magistrate Nduna today 06/01/2017, sentenced MDC_T Kwekwe Deputy Mayor Aaron Panganai Sithole (69), Weston Mahiya (46) and Tendai Virimayi (33) to two years in jail each after being found guilty of allegedly throwing stones at the end of a demonstration on 16/07/2016.

This judgement is politically motivated given that the convicted were simply exercising their right to protest as provided by for in the national constitution. The judgement must be dismissed with the contempt it deserves. Zanu pf's intransigence over their efforts to outlaw peaceful and lawful protests must be condemned at all cost. Zimbabweans must stand up and rise against this mafia type of judicial miscarriage. Struggle is our birthright and no one has the temerity to subjugate the people through wanton arrests and persecution of peaceful protestors. Just recently the zanu pf kleptocracy acy invoked an illegal statutory instrument to ban demonstrations in Harare CBD which is ultra vires the supreme law of the land. Progress activists like Last Maengahama,Yvonne Musarurwa and Tungamirai Madzokere are currently incarcarated on trumped up charges of murder by the same regime and this will not be tolerated by any right thinking Zimbabweans. Now is the time to stand up in full force against Robert Mugabe's misgovernance and gross maladministration.