Tawanda Mutasah: "In 1999, five years, at that point, into our friendship and successive professional collaborations with Everjoice, my wife shared with me that, on a visit she had paid EJ at her home in Johannesburg, she had seen her name and my name, and our phone numbers, neatly typed up and held under a magnet on EJ’s fridge. They were, or in time were set to be, among names of her family, like Fungwa’s, or her friends like Ennie Chipembere, Sophia Nyamudeza, Teresa Mugadza, Deprose Muchena, Bella Matambanadzo, Brian Kagoro, and others – that would be put up on the refrigerator for those in EJ’s household to call in the event that they couldn’t reach her."
By Tawanda Mutasah
The 31 July arrest by Mnangagwa’s regime of internationally acclaimed author Tsitsi Dangarembga, lawyer Fadzayi Mahere, and other peaceful, socially-distancing protesters, some of them even standing alone or walking near their homes holding mild-mannered protest placards, rounded off a febrile month of citizen discontent and state confusion.
It was a month in which Zimbabwe’s callous regime showed its true colors often and vividly, including in how the case of Hopewell Chin’ono and Mduduzi Mathuthu unmasked the regime’s posturing to the international community about fighting corruption.
The Assemblies of God-Back To God (AOG-BTG) church is coming under increasing scrutiny from its members amid emerging concerns over governance shortcomings, alleged financial mismanagement, and the use of church resources to fund legal disputes.
