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Lynette Mudehwe

Letter from America with Ken Mufuka: Practical advice to activist Lynette Mudehwe!

By Ken Mufuka

Activist Sister Lynette Mudehwe has asked me to give advice as to the way forward. My answer is that I can only share my own experience, while raise my hat in admiration to you as you carry the cross forward. You will find some practical vignettes which may be useful to your ever changing condition.

Your situation is more difficult than ours because the enemy was easily definable. White power was separated from black townships and one could hide, traveling from one township to another. The level of people now ready to be bought and paid for (like MDC-T) is staggering.

Jul 31, 2020 Read more

Government compensates brutality victim

Government has compensated activist Lynette Mudehwe $6 000 after she was brutally assaulted at the hands of law enforcement agents during a protest against former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko’s prolonged hotel stay.

Mar 27, 2019 Read more

Woman wants Matanga, Mathema jailed

Firebrand political activist Lynette Mudehwe has filed a court application demanding the incarceration of Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema and Commissioner-General of Police Godwin Matanga for failing to comply with a court order to pay her $6 000 in compensation.

Mar 05, 2019 Read more

Anti-Mphoko protester sues State

By Bernard Chiketo An activist — Lynette Mudehwe — who was arrested during a protest against Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s lengthy stay in a luxury hotel is suing the State for $17 000. Mudehwe and several other protesters demanded that Mphoko vacates the upmarket hotel where he had been holed up for nearly two years […]

Jan 09, 2017 Read more

Mutare ‘flier’ activists freed

By Bernard Chiketo Zimbabwe Activists Alliance (ZAA) founder Lynette Mudehwe and fellow activist Tapuwa Chitambo — who were arrested over a flier that claimed police brutality, lack of rule of law and political violence — have been freed. Magistrate Langton Mukwengi refused to have Mudehwe, 35, and Chitambo, 36, remanded further, as the State routinely […]

Oct 19, 2016 Read more

Police block peaceful demo over Zim women stranded in Kuwait

By Job Mbizi | Harare Bureau | Armed police on Wednesday morning disrupted a street demonstration in central Harare by women rights activists. The women were protesting against the Kuwait Embassy over the trafficking of Zimbabwean girls to the Middle Eastern country. The Zimbabwe Women in Politics Alliance (ZWIPA) with the support of Zimbabwe Activist Alliance (ZAA) had organized […]

Apr 06, 2016 Read more

Riot police brutalise protestors

By Jonga Kandemiiri HARARE – Riot police on Monday brutalised defenceless citizens protesting the delayed payment of December salaries and bonuses for civil servants. They also detained three leaders from the Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe for allegedly leading the protest in Harare. Rural Teachers’ Union president Obert Masaraure and his lieutenants Pride Mukono and Robson Chere […]

Jan 05, 2016 Read more