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MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa [...]

MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa [...]

Source: Zanu PF warns against Judiciary interference | The Herald

Cde Simon Khaya Moyo

Herald Reporter

Zanu PF says no one is above the law and the Constitution should be respected by all citizens, regardless of their political affiliation or station in life.

In a statement yesterday, Zanu PF Secretary for Information and Publicity Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo said governance in Zimbabwe was premised on the rule of the law.

The statement comes after Amnesty International attempted to interfere with the country’s judiciary system by demanding the immediate release of MDC-A vice chairman Job Sikhala, party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, and political activist, Hopewell Chin’ono, who were arrested for spreading false information.

“This implies the separation of powers as evidenced by the existence of the Executive, the Judiciary and the Legislature. Zimbabwe is indeed a constitutional democracy and not a banana republic.

“To expect His Excellency, the President Cde ED Mnangagwa to intefere with law enforcement agencies and the judiciary is absurdity in the extreme. The same organisation will cry foul if such illegality was to be implemented,” said Ambassador Khaya Moyo.

He said the revolutionary party took great exception to the demands by Amnesty International and its acolytes for President Mnangagwa to order the release Hopewell Chin’ono, Fadzayi Mahere and Job Sikhala from lawful custody.

“All citizens who are suspected to have committed crime in Zimbabwe are subjected to due processes of the law irrespective of one’s political affiliation and station in life.

“No one is above the law and the Constitution should be respected by all citizens,” he said.

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POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has directed police in Bulawayo to [...]

Source: School under probe for brutal assault on pupils | The Herald

Some of the pupils who were allegedly assaulted by the school deputy head

Victor Maphosa

Herald Reporter

Some pupils at Chemhanza High School in Hwedza are nursing visible back injuries after allegedly being assaulted by the deputy head, with no details of the possible misconduct yet available.

But a report has been made to the police and pictures showing what are said to be the pupils’ wounded and bruised backs have been circulating on social media, drawing condemnation.

While corporal punishment of schoolboys is not explicitly banned in Zimbabwe, any disciplinary action that amounts to physical or psychological torture is barred under the latest amendments to the Education Act, and which have been argued to amount to a ban on beatings.

National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said while a report had been made, the police were yet to get full facts.

By the end of yesterday, it was not clear who had made the report to the police.

There are also different versions of the story. Some sources alleged that the pupils were caught in compromising behaviour and that parents, on being informed, advised the use of corporal punishment. But the sources stressed these were just allegations.

Another parent said the pupils, who are writing public examinations, were assaulted for making noise during examination time. I heard that they were punished for making noise, but one wonders why they would be severely beaten for that.

I saw the wounds and bruises on their backs and it is something unacceptable. The punishment is not commensurate with the offences allegedly committed.

School authorities could not be reached yesterday to comment on the issue.

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