Zenzele Ndebele now a free man
Bulawayo magistrate Franklin Mkhwananzi today set free veteran Bulawayo based journalist Zenzele Ndebele with the state preferring no charges against him. There will be no trial to this effect.
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Bulawayo magistrate Franklin Mkhwananzi today set free veteran Bulawayo based journalist Zenzele Ndebele with the state preferring no charges against him. There will be no trial to this effect.
Last week, Zenzele Ndebele premiered a new documentary at the Intwasa Arts Festival. It is about Gukurahundi, the code name used by Zimbabwe’s security forces for the operation in which they massacred thousands of Ndebele people in the 1980s.
A documentary which explores the post-independence political disturbances in the Matabeleland and Midlands provinces is set to be showcased here during the Intwasa Arts Festival, as the number of activists and artists trying to get closure on the massacres increase in the post-Mugabe era.
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba has bizarrely claimed that solar-powered and wind-up shortwave radios are being ‘smuggled’ into Zimbabwe ‘to effect regime change.’
BULAWAYO – The editor of the Bulawayo based Radio Dialogue, Zenzele Ndebele, will appear in court today facing charges of possessing ‘smuggled’ solar powered radios and possessing a radio receiver without a valid Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation licence.
Police in Bulawayo raided the Radio Dialogue offices this morning and reportedly confiscated 180 solar and kinetic energy propelled radios from the premises.
A popular but worrying rumour doing rounds within the international human rights circles is that Mugabe’s government is sponsoring an elaborate exercise to minimize the scale of the Matabeleland genocide.
Two fired up musicians originally from Zimbabwe are breaking new ground in South Africa with what they say is a musical quest to ‘open up democratic space’ back home.