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Mazhindu Brighton, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate, has won the 2023 Parliamentary election in St Mary’s Constituency in Chitungwiza. He shrugged off competition from Nobert Chinjika of ZANU PF and Freddy Michael Masarirevu, who also ran under the CCC banner.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) reported that Mazhindu received 11,094 votes, while Chinjika received 7,728 votes and Masarirevu received 5,519 votes.
The constituency elections officer for St Mary’s, Mr Herbert Chirowodza, confirmed the results in a Declaration of Result of Poll Results form. Chiroodza officially declared Mazhindu as the elected member of the National Assembly for the constituency.
In addition, Chiroodza said 352 ballot papers were rejected, and the voter turnout percentage was recorded as 72.1 percent.
According to CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba, the opposition party has achieved a historic victory in Chitiguzwa’s democratic politics by winning all 25 council seats.
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Zimbabwe 2023 Elections Results: CCC Wins St Mary's Parliamentary Seat

The opposition party <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">Citizen Coalition</a> for Change (CCC) has reportedly fielded two candidates for two Bulawayo constituencies, including Pelandaba-Tshabalala and Pumula, which is a violation of <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">electoral regulations</a>, according to the <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/zec-releases-bulawayo-nomination-court-results/">Chronicle</a>. The <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/2023/06/22/full-list-ccc-parliamentary-candidates-2023-elections/">party’s official list</a> only mentions one candidate for each constituency. <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">The Chronicle</a> reported that Sichelesile Mahlangu and Albert Mhlanga were fielded for Pumula, while the party only mentions Sichelesile Mahlangu. Similarly, Gift Ostallos Siziba and Soneni Moyo were reportedly fielded for Pelandaba-Tshabalala, but the official list only mentions Gift Ostallos Siziba. Attempts to contact Siziba were unsuccessful.
The Chronicle cites the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)’s list of parliamentary candidates who successfully filed their nomination papers in Bulawayo for the upcoming election. The publication also notes that 19 candidates were disqualified from participating in the election as they failed to pay the required nomination fees. Below is the full list of Bulawayo candidates that successfully filed their nomination papers in Bulawayo for Parliamentary seats:
SENATORIAL PARTY LIST
ZANU-PF 
<ol>
<li>Molly Mpofu</li>
<li>Tshinga Dube</li>
<li>Esnart Moyo</li>
<li>Elfas Mashaba</li>
<li>Annah Moyo</li>
<li>David Ndlovu</li>
</ol>
CCC
<ol>
<li>Hellen Zivira</li>
<li>Gideon Shoko</li>
<li>Siphiwe Ncube</li>
<li>Felix Magalela Mafa</li>
<li>Rita Ndlovu</li>
<li>Swithern Chiroodza</li>
</ol>
Provincial Council (Metropolitan) List 
ZANU-PF
<ol>
<li>Manala Motsi</li>
<li>Eddie Dube</li>
<li>Kundai Nyika</li>
<li>Golden Ndlovu</li>
<li>Mnothisi Nsingo</li>
<li>Moleen Dube</li>
<li>Mlungisi Moyo</li>
</ol>
House of Assembly:
Bulawayo Central Constituency
<ul>
<li>Tendai Charuka – ZANU-PF</li>
<li>Surrender Kapoikulu – CCC</li>
</ul>
Bulawayo North Constituency
<ol>
<li>Nkosana Mkandla – ZANU-PF</li>
<li>Minehle Thandoyenkosi Gumede – CCC</li>
<li>Frank Mhlanga-UZA</li>
<li>Sibonokuhle Khumalo -DOP</li>
</ol>
Cowdray Park Constituency
<ol>
<li>Mthuli Ncube – ZANU-PF</li>
<li>Pashor Raphael Sibanda  – CCC</li>
</ol>
Bulawayo South Constituency
<ol>
<li>Rajesh Khumari Modi – ZANU-PF</li>
<li>Nicole Jane Watson – CCC</li>
<li>Admire Gomba – DOP</li>
</ol>
Pelandaba/Tshabalala Constituency
<ol>
<li>Cecilia Verenga – ZANU-PF</li>
<li>Gift Ostallos Siziba – CCC</li>
<li>Soneni Moyo- CCC</li>
<li>Paulo Maplanka – EFF</li>
<li>Gift Ndlovu -DOP</li>
</ol>
Emakhandeni/Luveve Constituency
<ol>
<li>Brian Samuriwo – ZANU-PF</li>
<li>Descent  Collins Bajila – CCC</li>
<li>Khulumani  Ndlovu – ZANC</li>
</ol>
Entumbane/Njube Constituency
<ol>
<li>Linda Chinamano – ZANU-PF</li>
<li>Dingilizwe Tshuma – CCC</li>
<li>Prince Dube – CCC</li>
<li>Nqobizitha Ndlovu – ZANC</li>
</ol>
Mpopoma/Mzilikazi Constituency
<ol>
<li>Admire Tonderai Masikati – ZANU-PF</li>
<li>Desmond Makaza- CCC</li>
<li>Blessing Sibanda- DOP</li>
<li>Bekezela Ncube- ZAPU</li>
<li>Zvikwete Innocent Mbano – ZANC</li>
<li>Sihle Muzenda – FA</li>
<li>Strike Mkandla – Independent</li>
<li>Pardon Tapfumaneyi- Independent</li>
</ol>
Pumula Constituency
<ol>
<li>Phumulani Nsingo – ZANU- PF</li>
<li>Sichelesile Mahlangu – CCC</li>
<li>Albert Mhlanga – CCC</li>
<li>Trust Mazwi Mkhwananzi – ZAPU</li>
</ol>
Lobengula/Magwegwe Constituency
<ol>
<li>Butholezwe Ndlovu – ZANU-PF</li>
<li>Eric Gono – CCC</li>
<li>Nigel Ndlovu- ZAPU</li>
<li>Douglas Ncube – ZANC</li>
<li>Godwin Zibafosi- UFP</li>
<li>Khanye  Lwazi – MRP</li>
<li>Innocent Ndibali – EFF</li>
</ol>
Nketa Constituency
<ol>
<li>Tavengwa Zidya – ZANU-PF</li>
<li>Obert Manduna CCC</li>
<li>Vincent Bala Ndlovu – Independent</li>
</ol>
Nkulumane Constituency
<ol>
<li>Freedom Murechu – ZANU-PF</li>
<li>Desire Moyo – CCC</li>
<li>Andrew Ndlovu – ZAPU</li>
<li>Adelaide MHLANGA – FreeZim Congress</li>
</ol>
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CCC Reportedly Fielded Two Candidates In Two Bulawayo Constituencies

<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Gift_Ostallos_Siziba/">Gift Ostallos Siziba</a>, the CCC’s deputy spokesperson, emphasized that the party will use non-violent means to gain state power. He urged young people to avoid participating in a violent revolution and criticized Jonathan Moyo for negative comments. The revolution, according to Siziba, is a local struggle led by CCC. <a href="https://cite.org.zw/we-will-use-non-violent-means-to-gain-power-ccc/">CITE</a> quotes him as saying:
<blockquote>
There are people, our other parties saying Chamisa has no plan, let me tell you, this struggle. When we were persecuting this struggle for 20 years, we know the enemy that we are dealing with, they wanted us to be in the streets, to cause violence so that they would arrest the leader of the revolution.
We know their behaviour because I say to you fellow young people, our method of struggle is the ballot, there are those who want a violent revolution, they have a right to define their struggle, define their methods, prosecute it, our method as CCC is a non-violent national democratic revolution to the power of the ballot.
Now our friend we grew up with in Tsholotsho, Jonathan Moyo, he says to us CCC is weak and so forth, he is speaking in Kenya, this struggle is local, the revolution is local, the revolution is not being televised from Nairobi, the revolution is here, we are leading it here.
</blockquote>
He also expressed confidence in the party’s victory in the upcoming elections and highlighted that the party achieved a whitewash despite facing several challenges. He said:
<blockquote>
We hear them saying CCC is not going to win, let me tell you, there was a survey by research Institutions, they predicted a Chamisa victory, police survey: Chamisa victory, military survey: Chamisa victory, they know that when it comes to the election, no one in the body politics of this country can defeat Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
</blockquote>
Siziba pointed out that despite CCC facing several challenges, including losing their headquarters and members of parliament, they emerged victorious in the March 26, 2022 by-elections, which he attributed to the nature of the democratic revolution as a revolution of culture.
The party has not yet announced its election candidates, despite the Nomination Courts sitting in a few days.
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CCC Vows Non-Violent Means To Gain Power

The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has scoffed at the president of the Chiefs Council of Zimbabwe Chief Fortune Charumbira’s claims that the opposition party has a hand in sexual assault allegations levelled against him by his 27-year-old niece.
On Wednesday, CCC deputy spokesperson Gift “Ostallos” Siziba told <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200010448/sex-assault-charumbira-victims-family-speak-out">NewsDay</a> that the party is against all forms of violence against women. Said Siziba:
<blockquote>
How does CCC get involved in this case? We condemn any form of abuse and violence against women.
If there was an abuse of power, Charumbira, just like any other citizen, should face the wrath of the law.
In other democratically progressive countries, Charumbira would have resigned both from PAP and Chiefs’ Council, but because we are in Zimbabwe, he is still a free man.
</blockquote>
Chief Fortune Charumbira, who is also the president of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), is accused of sexually assaulting his married niece.
The victim, who is a teacher at a school in Masvingo, reported the matter at Masvingo Central Police Station under RRB 5457646 on Saturday last week.
According to leaked chats seen by NewsDay, Charumbira accused the victim of “maliciously” filing the charges against him and conniving with CCC. He said in the leaked chats:
<blockquote>
I know you are working on documentation to go to Canada and run away from Zimbabwe after messing up my name with lies.
Do not run away. Ndakatosviba kare (my name was long soiled), let’s meet in court.
As a result of this attack on me, there is a lot of information between you, sekuru Foki and Gari which I know.
Ndavurawa image pasi rose nenhema kuti (My image has been tarnished worldwide through allegations that) I touched (your) private parts etc kidnapped etc. Whoom! Mwari ndewedu tese (God is for us all).
Vana (The likes of) Takanayi and other CCC members had several meetings with you to push this agenda.
I did not think you would agree to falsehoods against me to please them.
</blockquote>
According to a leaked police memorandum, Charumbira allegedly sexually assaulted the complainant on two separate occasions.
He allegedly fondled the complainant’s breasts, kissed her without her consent, and groped her private parts.
The alleged assault took place at Rainbow Towers Hotel on 31 March this year and on 02 April at Crown Plaza Hotel, respectively.
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CCC Not Involved In Chief Charumbira Indecent Assault Case - Ostallos

<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Citizens%27_Coalition_for_Change">Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)</a> leader <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Nelson_Chamisa">Nelson Chamisa</a> on Friday ordered Harare councillors to immediately review the parking penalty charges following a public outcry.
Chamisa’s directive came after the local authority refused to back down on its US$132 penalty charge for failing to display a valid parking ticket worth US$1 per hour.
In a revision of the policy earlier Friday, the local authority said a motorist who has not bought a parking ticket would be given a 30-minute grace period before clamping, while those whose tickets have expired would be given an hour’s grace period.
Motorists have complained the US$132 release fee for clamped vehicles is wildly disproportionate to the offence.
The CCC is the majority party in Harare and Chamisa summoned all the party’s councillors including mayor Jacob Mafume for a meeting on Friday.
The meeting was closed to reporters, but councillors who attended said the CCC leader was “angry” and fell short of telling the councillors they may not represent the party in future if the policy stands. ZimLive quotes an anonymous councillor as saying:
<blockquote>
He was quite animated and angry. He said the penalty fees were akin to overtaxing and overburdening the poor, and told us to choose whether we want to be with citizens or against citizens.
</blockquote>
Another councillor is cited as saying Chamisa told the councillors to review the parking penalty charges adding that the existence of bylaws supporting the charges was no excuse. The councillor said:
<blockquote>
He said the bylaws may have been there for years but insisted that this did not justify their existence. He said we took over the council to change things and not to maintain the old order.
</blockquote>
ZimLive was told that Chamisa told the councillors that they had to “<a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/city-parking-adjusts-parking-rules-effective-10-march-2023/">immediately fix the problem.</a>”
CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba confirmed Chamisa’s meeting with the councillors. Siziba said:
<blockquote>
The president expects the councillors to meet as a matter of urgency and pass a resolution to correct the issues that have been highlighted by residents. The CCC must always be pro-poor, pro-citizens and place citizens before profit. That was the president’s message to the councillors.
</blockquote>
Local government minister July Moyo has appointed a committee to look into the parking system in Harare which is operated by a company called City Parking in partnership with the city.
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Chamisa Orders Harare Councillors To Immediately Review Parking Penalty Charges

Kuwadzana East legislator <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Chalton_Hwende">Chalton Hwende</a> (Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)) has withdrawn from the party’s rural mobilisation exercise, citing hostile social media comments from colleagues in the party.
He said he would now concentrate on other arms of the party, according to <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200004608/hwende-dumps-ccc-rural-campaign">NewsDay</a>. He is quoted as saying:
<blockquote>
 My withdrawal from rural mobilisation is strictly attributed to people who are hostile on social media platforms; not any other reason.
</blockquote>
Earlier, Hwende had tweeted: 
<blockquote>
Yesterday I addressed a ward meeting of @CCCZimbabwe volunteers in Mhondoro. We prefer smaller meetings to counter victimisation. This is probably my last meeting. I have noticed the negative comments from our CCC citizens on Twitter whenever I go to mugwazo in Mhondoro. I have also considered the stress and anguish which most of the comments cause to my teenage kids.
The reason I agreed to help in Mhondoro was to assist in growing the rural vote. I did 38-weekend meetings this year, funding myself and abandoning my work at my logistics company.
As a leader in the movement, I have a responsibility to take into account the negative comments on Twitter and also introspect. I will use the December holiday to do exactly that. I love my citizens’ movement the @CCCZimbabwe and will continue contributing in other areas.
</blockquote>
CCC has been engaged in the mugwazo rural mobilisation programme to lure the rural vote ahead of next year’s polls.
The campaign is meant to encourage citizens to register to vote in numbers for the 2023 polls.
In his own words, CCC deputy national spokesperson, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Gift_Ostallos_Siziba">Gift Ostallos Siziba</a> said, “Rural mobilization is our key focus… Together we can win Zimbabwe for Total Transformation.“
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Hwende Withdraws From CCC’s Rural Mobilisation Exercise Citing Hostile Colleagues

Zimbabwean lawyer, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Gift_Ostallos_Siziba">Gift Ostallos Siziba Ostallos</a><a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Gift_Ostallos_Siziba">⁩</a> introduced the former president of the United States of America, Barack Obama, at the ObamaFoundation⁩ Democracy Forum on 17 November 2022. 
Siziba who is the deputy spokesperson of the opposition <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Citizens%27_Coalition_for_Change">Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)</a> led by <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Nelson_Chamisa">Nelson Chamisa</a> said Obama’s ascension to power in 2019 inspired many and continues to inspire many people around the world.
Obama was the first black person to be elected as president of the United States of America. Watch the video below for Siziba’s speech:
<div>
<video controls="controls" height="360" preload="metadata" width="640"><a href="https://t792ae.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/OSTALLOS-OBAMA.mp4">https://t792ae.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/OSTALLOS-OBAMA.mp4</a></video></div>
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WATCH: Zimbabwean Lawyer Gift Ostallos Siziba Introduces Barack Obama

The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has rubbished claims that top activist, Godfrey Karembera better known as Madzibaba veShanduko, has defected to ZANU PF.
Social media was Saturday awash with reports that Karembera had joined the ruling party because he was not getting any material support from CCC.
Posting on his Twitter account, ZANU PF Youth League National Deputy Political Commissar Taurai Kandishaya said Karembera had opened up to him when he visited his homestead in Guruve. Said Kandishora:
<blockquote>
Madzibaba Weshanduko said “Commissar let’s go to my house so that we talk.” He said “madzibaba hupenyu hwakandiomera kuCCC vakuru vanodya vega (Life is difficult for me. My leaders do not care about us.) Buy me a battery for my incubator. Voting day I will do what changes my life.”
</blockquote>
Karembera however, told <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/lies-and-cheap-propaganda-says-ccc-as-top-activist-madzibaba-veshanduko-defects-to-zanu-pf/">Newzimbabwe.com</a> that Kandishora lied. NewZimbabwe quotes as saying:
<blockquote>
They are trying all strategies to destroy the party but they will never win. They first tried to kill me but they failed. They offered me a car and I turned the offer down.
Today I was shocked to see my photos with the CIOs on social media.
There was a funeral at my neighbours’ homestead which I attended the funeral. Everyone knows me and a lot of people wanted to have a selfie moment with me. I did that happily not knowing some were on a mission to fabricate lies about me.
I was not even aware that some of the people who wanted photos with me were Zanu-PF activists on a plot to soil my relationship with my party leaders but anyway, I have not joined Zanu-PF. I remain with CCC.
</blockquote>
Karembera said some of the mourners visited his homestead to see his projects, adding he did not turn anyone away because he thought they had genuine interests.
CCC deputy national spokesperson Ostallos Siziba said the ruling party was “desperate” and was selling cheap propaganda. 
Madzibaba veShanduko has been a regular and popular face at CCC rallies around the country.
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CCC Rubbishes Reports That Madzibaba Veshanduko Defected To ZANU PF

CCC has scoffed at claims by former Masvingo Urban MP Tongai Matutu that the MDC asked for economic sanctions to be imposed on Zimbabwe fully aware that they will bring suffering to ordinary people.
In a statement he shared on his Twitter page on Friday, Matutu claimed that he and other members of the opposition had made various visits to America to plead for the renewal of the sanctions.
He further claimed that Western countries gave MDC officials millions of dollars for inviting the sanctions.
However, speaking to <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/ex-mdc-official-competing-with-mnangagwas-bootlickers-says-chamisas-ccc-after-sensational-claims-opposition-crafted-us-eu-sanctions-on-zim/">NewZimbabwe.com</a>, CCC deputy spokesperson, Gift “Ostallos” Siziba accused Matutu of lying through his teeth in order to get a slot at ZANU PF’s feeding trough.
Siziba asserted that CCC members will never be victims of a revised history of the democratic struggle. He said:
<blockquote>
This is expected from excitable characters trying to deepen their dirty hands in the gravy train and eating trough of the regime in Harare, but as a matter of fact, the history of the opposition is well known and well documented in terms of who did what, where and how.
We cannot be victims of revisionism, as a way to try and weaponise that revision to advance very naive and petty political objections to try and compete with the bootlickers of Mnangagwa in Harare.
The intention and script of ZANU PF to try and directly link CCC and MDC despite that the movements are different in form, character and content is something that does not surprise but is expected of the regime and their different players whose intentions are to bootlick their way into the looting trough.
</blockquote>
Matutu was appointed the Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Deputy Minister during the Government of National Unity (GNU) by the then Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
He first left Tsvangirai for then party secretary-general Tendai Biti’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in 2014, before making a comeback in 2016.
He left the MDC again in 2020 and joined ZANU PF after claiming that the opposition had lost direction.

CCC Scoffs At Former MDC MP's Sanctions Claims

The MDC Alliance will not hold primary elections to select candidates for the 2023 elections but will adopt a community-based candidate selection process.
This was said by the party’s spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba during a media briefing on Monday night.
Siziba made the remarks following MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s tour of the Matabeleland region where locals said they do not want candidates imported from other regions. Said Siziba:
<blockquote>
The president and the leadership of the party responded to these key questions during the interface and of course got the opportunity to share with the communities in and around our party’s view, around key issues like the party’s name, and how we intend to deploy candidates.
One of the predominant issues that came from community leaders is that they do not want candidates imported to lead them.
So the party has responded by proposing a community-based candidate selection programme. So this time we are not going to be having primary elections as a party.
</blockquote>
He said the people of Matabeleland were unhappy with the marginalisation of the region.
Siziba said once Chamisa’s party wins the 2023 elections, it would end the underdevelopment of Matabeleland and the side-lining of languages in the region, particularly Ndebele, Kalanga and Tonga.
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MDC Alliance Dumps Primary Elections

<blockquote>MDC youth assembly would like to state categorically, without fear of contradictions, that we will not fold hands while the regime attempts to use every platform necessary and unnecessary to destabilize the movement.
1. The regime wants to use all the avenues including the Supreme Court judgement to destabilize the party by parroting an idea that a judgement will be issued to choose new leadership for the MDC.
2. There are those, for reasons best known to themselves, who believe that such a time will come when Zanu PF will foist a leadership on us. Never.
3. On cheap corruption allegations against the party, this is a fabricated narrative to divert us from the real crisis affecting the people of Zimbabwe.
Their intention is to equalize our party with Zanu, whose corrupt oligarchy have stashed loot worth a whopping US$7 billion outside the country, according to ZACC.
We, therefore, state as follows:
1. The Movement for Democratic Change gathered in Gweru on the 26th of May 2019 at our 5th national congress elected a leadership whose outcome is a matter and fact of public knowledge. No leader of this great movement will emerge from Zanu PF.
2. The President is not a signatory to any party account. This is a task constitutionally mandated to the Secretary-General and the Treasurer General who are signatories and anything related to party funds shall be unveiled in the audit report.
The people must know that this is a hatchet job to malign and besmirch the character and image of our leadership.
3. Those who in their infinite wisdom, or lack of it thereof, are made to believe that there is or they can be another leadership outside that of President Chamisa and his team are day-dreaming.
4. As the vanguard of the party, whose key values are justice, freedom and solidarity, we respect anyone’s freedom to lead the movement, but only through a democratic process as the one we conducted in Gweru. Those imagining themselves at 44 Nelson Mandela without the popular mandate of the people must wake up from their slumber.
We will not allow such shenanigans. Our focus is and shall be on taking the fight to the doorstep of this callous, brutal and ruthless regime.
Our sole intention is to transform the concrete realities of our people.
Wamba is in charge!
Until victory 
Aluta continua
Comrade Ostallos
Secretary-General 
MDC Youth assembly</blockquote>

FULL TEXT: MDC Youth 'Will Not Allow The Regime To Destabilize The Movement'

<blockquote>SIZIBA SET FREE OVER PUBLIC VIOLENCE CHARGES
HARARE Magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti on Monday 9 December 2019 set free MDC Youth Assembly Secretary-General Gift Ostallos Siziba after ordering that he be removed from remand for allegedly inciting people to revolt against President <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Emmerson_Mnangagwa" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emmerson Mnangagwa’s</a> government.
Siziba had been appearing in court since he was arrested by Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers on Wednesday 10 July 2019 and charged with incitement to commit public violence as defined in section 187 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.
Prosecutors charged that Siziba incited members of the public to rise up against President Mnangagwa’s government when he addressed his MDC party supporters at a political rally held in Harare.
On Monday 9 December 2019, the MDC youth leader’s lawyer Moses Nkomo of <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Zimbabwe_Lawyers_for_Human_Rights" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights</a> protested against the State’s failure to have his trial commence despite undertaking to do so on several occasions.
This resulted in Magistrate Muchuchuti agreeing with Nkomo’s submissions and removed Siziba from remand and ordering the State to proceed by issuing a summons if it intends to press on with his prosecution.
ENDS 
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights 
Kodzero/Amalungelo House 
No. 103 Sam Nujoma Street, Harare, Zimbabwe 
Phone: (+263 8677005347, +263 242 764085/705370/708118 
Email: info@zlhr.org.zw 
www.zlhr.org.zw</blockquote>

MDC Official Freed Over Public Violence Charges {Full Text}

<blockquote>MDC Youth Assembly secretary-general Gift Ostallos Siziba has been detained on trumped-up charges of incitement to commit public violence.
The charges arise from remarks he allegedly made at a rally in Glen Norah in Harare on Sunday. Siziba has been detained just at the time the MDC is seized with establishing the whereabouts of detained MDC Vice-Chairman Hon. Job Sikhala, who was expected to appear in court today.
His lawyers, party officials and members of the Sikhala family have been stood up until late this afternoon. Hon. Sikhala did not show up at court and the police have not bothered to explain his whereabouts.
Hon. Sikhala is facing trumped-up charges of subverting a constitutionally elected government.
Siziba went to Harare Central Police Station CID Law and Order section this morning accompanied by his lawyers, Moses Nkomo and Agency Gumbo. The police refused to release him into their custody pending his appearance in court tomorrow.
Hon. Sikhala and Siziba’s detention exposes the Mnangagwa callous nature of Mnangagwa’s administration, which has been trying to hoodwink Zimbabweans and the international community that they are different from the oppressive regime of former president Robert Mugabe.
The detention of the two MDC senior officials, the recent clamp-down on civil society activists and MPs have exposed this regime for what it really is.
The brutal murder of innocent Zimbabweans on August 1, 2018, and in January 2019 have shown that Mnangagwa has never been a reformist, contrary to his posturing to the world and to the diplomatic community.
In short, this is not in any way the Second Republic but a brutal continuation of the First.
Luke Tamborinyoka 
Deputy National Spokesperson 
Movement for Democratic Change</blockquote>

FULL TEXT: MDC Youth Leader Detained

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