Opposition Councillor Arrested For Sharing Video Criticising President Mnangagwa
3 days agoThu, 13 Mar 2025 14:00:32 GMT
Councillor Ishmael Maukazuva of Ward 12 in Chivhu, Mashonaland East Province, has been arrested on allegations of cyber-bullying and harassment.
According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), Maukazuva is accused of violating the Data Protection Act by sharing a video on a residents’ WhatsApp group, which allegedly shows a woman criticising President Mnangagwa’s handling of the economy and making derogatory remarks about the ZANU PF party leader.
Maukazuva, represented by ZLHR’s Paidamoyo Saurombe, was detained overnight at a Chivhu police station and was expected to appear in Chivhu Magistrates Court on Thursday.
This arrest makes Maukazuva the latest individual to face charges related to insulting President Mnangagwa, joining a growing list of people targeted by Zimbabwean authorities in their intensified crackdown on criticism of the country’s leader.
The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights views Maukazuva’s arrest as a disturbing escalation of the authorities’ assault on dissent, where perceived opponents of President Mnangagwa and his ruling ZANU PF party are being aggressively pursued, and arrested by the police.
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38 Comments
Fine · 2 days ago
Kasongo mbonawel panotyorwa mnhu
Anonymous · 2 days ago
Where can I get a copy of this video?
Z · 2 days ago
Geza kunyarara zvakadaro boe here
foxbat · 2 days ago
chaatadza chii nekuyeuchidza munhu zvaari pamwe anenge akanganwa kuti akaipa ?
2030 ed anenge asisipo · 2 days ago
truth be told ed has failed dismally mungasunge henyu vanhu asi garwe renyu rakasokundikana was choziikanwa kuba ne corruption chihuure nekudhakwa
Sir African. · 2 days ago
Is there any opposition or there is a faction of Zanu pf known as CCC?
Hwesa · 2 days ago
MDC Mwonzora
African Observer · 2 days ago
It's a result of kwashiorkor leadership people can't continue ululating while Emerson continue driving this already broke economy into an abyss.
Only people with tiny brains like the ones of a chimpanzee say mnangagwa is a good leader.
In fact compared to Robert Mugabe I think Mugabe was a saint and mnangagwa is a very cruel despot.
nzwisisa zvandiri kutaura · 2 days ago
those same strategies to oppress people that were done by Smith are the same done today. meaning the arrested in the next regime are heroes look war vets so everyone whose on power want to protect his interest
geza 2 · 2 days ago
ini handisi ku comments. ndozosungwa.
T · 2 days ago
Mazanu mese murikutaura ****i pano munenge makapoya mu C.ondom chete
Sir African. · 2 days ago
@Anonymous . Trump the most powerful ediot anogara achitukwa everyday.He also almost got assassinated for your own info.
@vhedza · 2 days ago
Each every sovereign country has its own governing laws that suit their tradition and beliefs.
Zengeza · 3 days ago
Ska motavapedzaka vana vezimbabwe kkkk nekuti pese pese ndodzava nyaya
Anonymous · 2 days ago
Ndokupi kwamakanzwa 1st citizen achitukwa nevanhu cake. Bob maimuruka Ini, maakusziirwa manje. Kana teacher ahatukwe nevana. Varegei vaite manywmwe emhuru. Anodarika nekwangu anosara oenda Ku court ndamutwasudza Ini mu Special constable former 5th brigade. Bvunza mandewere vakataura Chikaranga tapinda ISU vebZaka takasvuta dzekwamutoko, wasu aripedo.
Canterbury · 2 days ago
@anyomas wakakwana here iwe
Anonymous · 2 days ago
How old are you karongo unoiwanza uchaita sober, time will tell
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😎Tous l'est, jours · 3 days ago
Asi timbozviisa wo mu bhutsu dza ED, you are given a mandate to govern vanhu, Apa muripama 1 nema sanctions, Opposition Ana mpugunyoni, believe you can't govern, uku vachiti sa masanctions arambe ariko so that they get people to a footing since they are ever suspended,
Ungaitasei kuti nyika ifambe negwara
I give Ed governance as that of a leader ari marooned in an island, where everything is cut off, (sanctions) you try hard to have a gong out of it, to a certain extent extent of you manage, but there are those that naturally born to contradict, vagara vasinga appreciate anything good done
What exactly would you do?
Jivas
Chihwehwete · 3 days ago
maybe you first need to explain why the president in on targeted sanctions and what is needed for those sunctions to be removed and how are they affecting the country since they are individual sanction and lastly what do you say about level of corruption in the country?
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😎Tous l'est, jours · 2 days ago
There is a term in Chishona that explains kwad,zvisina kuswera, or in Sindebele, uku senga lezi mitiyo, you see what my guy, the very people that transmit the deregatory sentiments are outside the country and are honours at influencing people to revolt, that's their acts naturally and they are in born deflectors that how they getpaid, to write of their country and of birth
HiLLBiLLIES VOLkSWAGEN 0774857233 · 3 days ago
KANA MWARI CHAIYE ANOTUKWA
Ediots · 3 days ago
Ed is treading on shaky ground. thede are the most signs of a man seeing flashes of his end or demise
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Mudhibhisi
· 3 days ago
If criticising the Looter In Chief is a crime,then the 12million Zimbabweans doing so must be arrested immediately.
1ZimSketch · 3 days ago
but Mkuru azvikoniwa hake haidzisi nhema idzi
BATAI MUNHU · 3 days ago
Kana tashaya zvekuita better kurara ndaa zvinosungisa zvawandisa, mhuri dzinofa nenzara nekuda kwekusatarisa kunoenda mhepo honai Mpofu, Chimombe, Mhlanga, Geza, nhasi Maukazuva all issues related to the President so ngatitambe nezvimwe pliz pliz pliz
🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽 · 3 days ago
MAZUVANO BEWARE AMANA MUCHATAMBIRA KURE NEPOLITICS
Bz · 3 days ago
haaa bba havatukwe ngasugwe
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· 3 days ago
very good arrest them
Saul · 3 days ago
Mnangagwa is a dictator.
007 · 3 days ago
haaa munhu aiitukirirwa ndibaba chatunga nt avaa avaaa
Worried · 3 days ago
If the arresters go into beer halls they will arrest the whole pub........sure.
CIO · 3 days ago
police guys think ukasunga munhu anenge adaro unopiwa reward
aaaaah · 3 days ago
Pachake ipapa kwakudii manje
🫥 · 3 days ago
kutonga kwaro
