

Jail, a Harare high court judge ruled today.ĭenied bail as he awaits trial on incitement to violence and obstructionĪrrested on 14 June after opposition Citizens Coalition for Change supportersĬlashed with those of the ruling Zanu-PF at the funeral wake of murder victim Opposition MP who's been behind bars for two months must remain in Use likening it to a cover-up of the government's failures, urging the hospital It added that it was "not soliciting donations" despite "generous offers of donations fromīut not everyone is impressed by the gesture, with one Twitter Ongoing and we are grateful for the leads that we have received so far," "Our efforts to locate the Zimbabwean patient are still Settle all outstanding bills for the woman - though it has yet to find her. Now Arundel Hospital in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare - which on Twitter said it followed a philanthropic policy of offering "free medical Ramathuba said that Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa did not contribute to South Africa's health budget, and that her country's health system was not a "charity". Leaning over the patient's bed, Dr Phophi Health minister who blamed foreign nationals for the country's ailing healthcare system. The woman, who could not be seen in the video, had been in a carĪccident in Zimbabwe, but went to a government hospital in the SouthĪfrican province of Limpopo for treatment - to the annoyance of the provincial Rebuked by an official in a rant that was recorded and went viral. Treatment of a Zimbabwean patient who went to South Africa for surgery and was LIMPOPO PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT Copyright: LIMPOPO PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT Phophi Ramathuba told the Zimbabwean patient: "You're killing my health system." Image caption: Phophi Ramathuba told the Zimbabwean patient: "You're killing my health system."Ī private hospital in Zimbabwe has offered to pay for the Rutsito and Chelsea Mashayaombe from the Zimbabwe The other journalists attacked were Technomag’s editor Toneo

Said his colleague Pellagia Mpurwa, from the online magazine Technomag, briefly lost consciousness Told the BBC they stomped on his head and body and punched him, causing him to One of the journalists, Tongai Mwenje who works Road in the town of Gokwe west of the capital, Harare, ahead of an oppositionĪbout 10 people then emerged from vehicles emblazoned with the Zanu-PF logosĪnd dragged the journalists from their car, beat them up, ordered them toĭelete their footage and stole the car keys. The Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) said the group was attackedĪfter they filmed a convoy of governing Zanu-PF party supporters, which had blockaded a

Tongai Mwenje Copyright: Tongai Mwenje Tongai Mwenje says they were punched and kicked, and ordered to delete their photos and videos Image caption: Tongai Mwenje says they were punched and kicked, and ordered to delete their photos and videosĪuthorities in Zimbabwe have been urged to investigate the brutal assault ofįour independent journalists on Thursday. Said bail was a constitutional right adding “this persecution must stop”.Ī prominent Zimbabwean journalist has also tweeted a letter that Mr Sikhala had allegedly written saying they were "living like rats" in prison and pleading to religious leaders to "rebuke the suffering of the weak". Lawyer and Citizen’s Coalition for Change party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere He also faces obstruction of justice charges.Īpplied for bail citing changed conditions. He has not been convicted on any of those charges. That he was likely to reoffend as he faces similar unrelated charges, although Repeatedly denied bail in both the magistrate's and high courts, which ruled Members were arrested and remain behind bars.

Ruling party and opposition supporters at a funeral wake nearĬhitungwiza area on the capital’s outskirts. Job Sikhala was arrested in June after violence broke out between A Zimbabwean opposition MP facing an incitement-to-violence charge has been denied bail and will remain in jail until his trial in November, a magistrate's court in the capital, Harare, has ruled.
