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2 MDC Alliance members denied bail for allegedly shouting at police
Their party said the court's decision to keep them in jail is a travesty of justice.
Job Sikhala, vice chairman of the main opposition party Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-Alliance), was arrested on 21 August and charged with inciting the public to commit violence.
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) alliance on Friday tweeted that its vice chairman, Job Sikhala, had been arrested but it gave no details.
The MDC Alliance said that Lovender Chiwaya, a local government councillor, was abducted on Thursday by suspected state security agents. Chiwaya’s naked body was found early on Friday morning, dumped not far from his front door in Hurungwe.
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday said ‘rogue Zimbabweans’ were working with foreign detractors to scupper government’s work.
More than 60 people have been handcuffed so far, while more arrests still being carried out following an attempt to hold an anti-government protest against President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week.
The protests, which have the backing of the main opposition MDC Alliance, were called to show anger at government corruption but a number of the organisers were in hiding.
Hundreds in Harare and in Pretoria marched against the sanctions imposed 80 individuals including President Mnangagwa and 50 companies.
In a speech that marked the latest move in efforts to end his country's international isolation, he told delegates: "We are in the process of reforming our party.
Critics of Nelson Chamisa say that he and fellow opposition officials urged protesters to take to the streets two days after polls by insisting the MDC had won the election and telling supporters to defend their vote.
The post was accompanied by a screengrab of a video which showed a group of men gathered around an SUV.
There had been plans by the MDC to recognise Nelson Chamisa as the legitimately elected president at the rally
The ministers took their oath of office at a ceremony at State House on Monday.
Nelson Chamisa’s legal challenge was dismissed with costs on Friday; it means he and his party will have to cover the costs of everyone involved.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was inaugurated on Sunday, after his was confirmed by the country’s constitutional court on Friday.
Mnangagwa was inaugurated on Sunday after the constitutional court dismissed an attempt by the opposition mdc alliance to rule that his Zanu-PF party stole the July election.
The MDC has said it was denied victory by ‘mammoth theft and fraud’, citing a catalogue of irregularities and discrepancies.
The case will see MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa try to overturn President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s narrow victory.
The case will see MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa try overturn President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s narrow victory.