Law Will Act Decisively Against "Irresponsible" Blessed Mhlanga, Says Ziyambi
1 day agoSun, 16 Mar 2025 13:45:27 GMT
ZANU PF Politburo member and Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi, has criticised Heart & Soul Television (HSTV) and Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) journalist Blessed Mhlanga for allegedly using social media to incite violence.
Speaking at a Special Provincial Coordinating Committee meeting in Chinhoyi, Ziyambi warned that the law would take firm action against the spread of inciteful and violent messages. He said:
It is irresponsible for any journalist to foster panic and uncertainty.
The law will act decisively against the broadcasting of incitement and violent messages.
This kind of behaviour is not only dangerous but also poses a threat to our nation’s stability and economic progress.
No sovereign nation would permit calls for violent uprisings against its leaders.
Mhlanga was arrested on February 24, 2025, after voluntarily surrendering to the police. His arrest followed allegations of inciting public violence through broadcasts on HSTV, where he interviewed political figures critical of the government, including Blessed Geza, a war veteran and outspoken critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mhlanga faces charges under Section 164 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act for allegedly transmitting messages intended to incite violence or damage property.
Despite his lawyer’s attempts to challenge the evidence and secure bail, the High Court indefinitely postponed his bail appeal, leaving him in custody at Harare Remand Prison.
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Anonymous · 15 hours ago
Ziyambi is speaking, like he already knows in advance, the outcome of the court case? Dangerous utterance from this chap.
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Anonymous · 15 hours ago
Blessed akazviita gamba asingazivi kuti atori kupara mhosva. Akada kutevedzera vana Gambakwe vanotepfenyura vahwanda ku SA. Manje wave wega mujeri and hapana kana 1 achamira newe. Mhuri yako yave kutambura manje.
Private Investigator · 17 hours ago
Blessing Mhlanga akazama kuzviita gamba through reckless and irresponsible reporting. Zvinosungisa izvi. He is obviously facing jail time. Even BBC, CNN or VOA don't flight that type of interview.They do conduct those types of interviews but they do not air them: national security comes first: always. PABATEI IPAPO
wasu · 15 hours ago
some people are so heartless..national security.my foot...musade kukwatisaa vanhu kana maudzwaa chokwad
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Private Investigator · 12 hours ago
You can join him later on kuChikurubi muchitaurirana chokwadi chenyu chinosungisa. Proceed with caution on issues of national security.
putin · 18 hours ago
hamuchina channel yekuhukurira kunze kwe pindula manje kachavharwa. vana VOA vavakungorova mhanzi muchokocho muchati baba. hondo yarohwa nemunyarikani TRUMP yandifadza. hameno ve STUDIO7 vachiriko here. Trump. akaona kuti mari irikupera nematsotsi akati hoo. zvimisangano nezvima club zvairwisa gvt zvichangoparara. chizii zii.
iii · 19 hours ago
ngaambonoona matswana achi campainer
geza 2 · 19 hours ago
judge and you shall be judged
geza 2 · 19 hours ago
we are in a tyranny state. Ziyambi watch the movie tyrant.
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chele mabhinya · 20 hours ago
United &Barca dzakapedza sei
SkulKid · 20 hours ago
still to early to be asking football results.imbomukai mugeze kuface
rms · 19 hours ago
man u 3-leicester0 Barca 4-atiletico 2
War vet · 23 hours ago
Ziyambi ziyambi and I repeat Ziyambi ziyambi one of the good days it will turn back to you, coz hautenderi zvisina basa hanti.
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chomi · 1 day ago
where is Dambudzo Marechera. HOUSE OF HUNGER
Emily · 1 day ago
pakaip
ceelay · 1 day ago
liver 0-2 defeat l'm happy
thank god
Kenny · 1 day ago
Journalists have a duty to always tell the truth without fear or favour. Anyone who has a problem with that is a tyranny! There's no democracy or freedom of speech in this country. We're ruled by a bloodthirsty dictatorship that will crush or kill anyone who dares to criticize it.
1WiFi · 1 day ago
God's time will come
Douglas · 1 day ago
I thought Smith had died? You know, one of those who brought reading and writing to Zim
pk · 18 hours ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 my friend tell that to Trump and he will say the most democratic country never said that (VOA) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Kenny · 18 hours ago
America still have the first ammendment which protects free speech. Trump is repeatedly moved and parodied on late night TV in the U.S., buy nobody is ever arrested!
SIR AFRICAN · 17 hours ago
@Kenny.you nailed it
Taneta · 1 day ago
what do you mean by saying economic progress, failed leadership, ****
1Patz · 1 day ago
Statement raZiyambi nderekuda ku influencer Court. How is he so sure that Mhlanga will be convicted
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Satan 👹 · 1 day ago
courts are captured Mutsvangwa akazaura wani
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Yeah · 1 day ago
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pakaipa · 1 day ago
yakatungamirwa 1----0 yahalf time
chele mabhinya · 1 day ago
yarohwa 2-1
Patz · 1 day ago
That one is a company offense if ever there is an offence. Mhlanga was just discharging his duties as per company resolutions. The accused is HSTV. Mhlanga did nothing in breach of his mandate of employment
Sir Canvas. · 1 day ago
@Patz You are right,they just wanted to fix Mhlanga because they would not be able to detain the company so Mhlanga became a victim.
Check this page,the lower court will convict him even if there is no evidence as happened to ,Mahere,Sikhala and Ngarivhume and will be discharged via the High Court. That's the templet .
Just check this,when any is from the opposite the templet is often the same,the accused appears before a magistrate who goes through a motion of hearing the application, the accused is remanded in custody for several days, on the day of ruling the magistrate goes to attend to " urgent private matter" and the accused is sent back to remand.
When magistrate returns ,bail is refused on the grounds of " fearing he may interfere with witnesses, or he incite others or that he is a flight risk " and the rest of the nonsense.
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Anonymous · 16 hours ago
Its normal process. Kill the small fish whilst the big ones swim around as normal. Same as corruption.
Sir Canvas. · 1 day ago
ZIYAMBI ZIYAMBI IS ANOTHER JONATHAN MOYO IN WAITING.HE IS COURTING HIS EXILE AFARISA.
1Patz · 1 day ago
Type dzana Ziyambi ndodzakafita kuno joiner ana Mandi Chimene kumaruzevha eku Moza coz haana kunyatsongwara ngwara zvekutoita residence out of the country. Ngaaite zvirikuitwa nemamwe madhara kugara pa fence ozodonhera kunenge kwanaka kwete kugara wakatodonha kare unogona kunge wakadonhera kusiko sezvakaitwa nana Kasukuwere nana Jonso
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The High Priest · 1 day ago
wataura chokwadi chinokunda ngoma kurira
cronyist · 1 day ago
violence yaitwa incited ndeipi ipapa
Gegeja · 1 day ago
apa ndopanofanira kuratidza kuti Judiciary is independent
Sir Canvas. · 1 day ago
@ Gegeja.Judicial(JSC)Judicial was independent during the tenure of Chief justice Chidyausiku because he fought in the struggle. He nearly got killed by Togogara but was saved by Chitepo who advised him not to go back to Zambia and remain in Malawi.That very same week Chitepo was killed.
He understood the independence of the judicial.
The judiciary system on it's own is independent because of the Zimbabwe Law Society which monitors its work ethics. The judicial is controlled by Malaba and Mnangagwa.
chaka · 1 day ago
ziyambi zvigananda is waffling
Mudhibhisi
· 1 day ago
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Satan 👹 · 1 day ago
Ziyambi' is the one who ordered the courts to remand Mhlanga in custody till April our courts are captured
Mai T · 1 day ago
ana ziyambi ziyambi itai henyu and gara wakaziva kuti inokwana nguva apo Mwari vachaita kuda kwavo
Duma Dako · 1 day ago
Ziyambi Ziyambi kazembe kazembe masurname ega ega
😎Tous l'est, jours · 1 day ago
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Mudhibhisi
· 1 day ago
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Black Mambazo · 1 day ago
toto yafa
Antman · 1 day ago
@Sir Anoxy³
Thank you for Saying things as they are. We usually support what our side is proposing or doing. In this case There are videos that merely have Geza, saying things not Mhlanga. Mhlamga is just being punished for pol8ce failure or state failure to capture Geza. From 2023 upto date all incitement cases that have been raised against Zimbabweans be it journalists or opposition members where all ruled not guilty at the end of the day meaning our government is just in the business of abusing power putting innocent people on unwarranted remand. Instead of using law we use other people's word of mouth. If Ziyambi says arrest they just arrest even when there is clear indication that the accused is innocent..
shut up · 1 day ago
shut up clown
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nyonglo · 1 day ago
Dzungu ,speed kills
chele mabhinya · 1 day ago
ko dzepa joza dzatamba sei
Rass1
· 1 day ago
Mbavha, Gororo rehurumende yemakororo nehugeven'a
theLastAntKing · 1 day ago
that's exactly why think-tank classes are saying 1st & 2nd Republics are just names given to a society that drinks from the same river.
Those with eyes can see that the 2nd Republic is even bad than the former especially by eroding democratic spaces.
It is like a demon which has been previously removed from a dirty house & went on to find a much cleaner space, now it has invited more demons to come & occupy this new house
chele mabhinya · 1 day ago
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olyver · 1 day ago
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Apes · 1 day ago
Ian ndlovhu akapa chiporofita vanenzeve vakanzwa 2026 kuchamhanyiwa ziyambi it's either achatiza or mujeri these are last kicks of dying horse
𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓮 𝓢𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓽 ʷᵒᶻᵃ ᵐᵒʸᵃ · 1 day ago
Anoporofita mukomana uya, doesn't miss the dot. AnaZiyambi would be shaken
🍑 · 1 day ago
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Z · 1 day ago
IF A PERSON ACTS IRRESPONSIBLY AND INCITES PUBLIC VIOLENCE AND PROMOTES ANACHY IN THE COUNTRY THAT PERSON MUST BE REMOVED FROM SOCIETY BECAUSE HE'S A DANGER TO MANKIND. I HAVE NO FEELINGS TO TRAITORS SABATUERS AND POLITICALLY MISGUIDED STOOGES. THEY SING SONGS THEY CANT DANCE. YOU HIT A SNAKE ON THE HEAD NOT THE TAIL. JOURNALISTS BELIEVE THAT THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN GUN SO LETS PROVE THEIR THEORY. MHLANGA DELIBERATELY BROKE A LAW HE WAS AWARE OF BECAUSE HE THOUGHT THE IDES OF MARCH WAS AROUND THE CORNER.
munhu mutema · 1 day ago
gun rapinda papi apa
Sir Anoxy³ · 1 day ago
This is a peice of trash written by someone who resembles an imoral entity and a member of a cabal of heartless charlatans, worsely uneducated when it comes to the law. In a normal setup, journalists have the right to exercise their freedom of press, you was born and bred in a society which hails censorship thats the problem. How can you say a journalist had incited whilist he was just doing his job. If we are to interpret on a nuetral perspective, section 164 of the CCRA , we would conclude that the legislative intent was not to include members of press essentially because mere interviewing someone does not suffice incitement. There are several people out there committing serious crimes that are causing public unrest. Instead of prosecuting those criminals and corrupt moguls who are syphoning state funds, the state just find solace in persecuting a harmless and poor journalist. This is totally degrading. it erodes the public confidence in the judiciary, chiefly because this is a true manifestation of a captured judiciary. State executives are overlapping into the judicial spaces and the judges are left optionless but to play in accordance with orders from these powerthirst and blood mongers. The situation is terrible. if you are to reply me please do not use caps, you cant type a whole paragraph using caps, caps are for the fools, so better desist from using them unless or otherwise you want me to percieve you as one.
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Antman · 1 day ago
@Sir Anoxy³
Thank you for Saying things as they are. We usually support what our side is proposing or doing. In this case There are videos that merely have Geza, saying things not Mhlanga. Mhlamga is just being punished for pol8ce failure or state failure to capture Geza. From 2023 upto date all incitement cases that have been raised against Zimbabweans be it journalists or opposition members where all ruled not guilty at the end of the day meaning our government is just in the business of abusing power putting innocent people on unwarranted remand. Instead of using law we use other people's word of mouth. If Ziyambi says arrest they just arrest even when there is clear indication that the accused is innocent.
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jaa · 1 day ago
@sir anex you have poured out a lot of rubbish not worthy commenting. don't expose your ignorance like that!
Anonymous · 15 hours ago
@jaa, Enlighten us.
Sir African. · 1 day ago
@Z. What law has he contravened? I have worked so many years in court I have never heard any journalist being convicted for airing an interview with a person opposed to government being convicted.We at the end of the day he will be released and sue the state for millions.Money that you,me and your children will pay inthe form of taxes.
Sir Anoxy³ · 1 day ago
@Sir African. Thank you for the input. This is what i was trying to educate a fellow brother @Z.
Dok25 · 1 day ago
This statement by the justice minister compromises a case that is before the courts as the minister has already deemed Mhlanga guilty before tria, and any court official will feel intimidated to go against the minister's pronouncement. Why has the minister been saying he doesn't get involved in cases before the courts, which is contrary to what he is doing here.
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munhu mutema · 1 day ago
pashata apa
Truth · 1 day ago
The minister has become the law and it's quite laughable.
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Jivas Chihwehwete · 1 day ago
How far neya Chimombe and Mpodu.
Sir Anoxy³ · 1 day ago
Ummm now i can see Hopwell's claims that Ziyambi ordered the Judiciary to deny Mhlanga bail till late April were true. This is really terrible!. The reasons for which they are denying him bail are trivial. Objectively speaking no reasonable magistrate or judge can deny the accused bail basing on those reasons. Ziyambi Why?..
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Lloyd · 1 day ago
justice delayed justice denied
Anonymous · 16 hours ago
Justice in Zimbabwe is like a unicorn.
