Motlanthe Commission

By Luke Tamborinyoka “The Commission’s finding, on a balance of probability from all the evidence received, is that the deaths of these six people and the injuries sustained by 35 others arose from the actions of the military and the…
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Today (1 August 2022) marks exactly four years since soldiers shot and killed six civilians on the streets of Harare during a post election demonstration over the late announcement of results. Mnangagwa who won the presidential race by a…
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Former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has claimed that opposition and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have let down six victims of the August 1, 2018 army killings by not pushing for accountability.
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Legal and Parliamentary think-tank, Veritas has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime of failing to implement recommendations of the Motlanthe Commission by allowing the continued deployment of soldiers who are being used to enforce…
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A flurry of behind-the-scenes consultations that took place before the August 1 army killings has lifted the lid on who actually authorised the military deployments that quelled demonstrations which rocked the capital city on that fateful…
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The release of the much-awaited Commission of Inquiry report on the August 1 politically-motivated violence that culminated in the death of six innocent civilians when the army was drafted to help the police break protests in central Harare…
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By Jacob Mafume The MDC notes the release into the public domain the report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the Violence of 1 August 2018, which report has confirmed what we all knew that the military shot innocent Zimbabweans on…
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Former Higher Education Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has slammed the Motlanthe report on the August 1 killings in Zimbabwe, describing it as “the worst published Report by a Commission of Inquiry since 1980.” The thread from his…
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The Zimbabwean military’s use of live bullets to quell post-election violence in the summer was “disproportionate and unjustified”, according to an inquiry released on Tuesday.
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Zimbabwe’s military and police were responsible for killing six people when they intervened to stop post-election protests in the capital in August, according to a report by a commission of inquiry released Tuesday.
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