THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) on Saturday secured the
release of four villagers arrested for allegedly distributing
information that falsified President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s inauguration
speech last year.
Asani Sinatala, Andrew Mutela, Wellington Mberikwazvo and David Mateo
were arrested at Njiri Farm in Chinhoyi last week and charged with
allegedly “publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to
the state”.
They allegedly distributed a document titled “Freedom Speech”
claiming that the current government was promising to compensate former
commercial white farmers, who were “perpetrators and beneficiaries of
genocide”.
According to court papers seen by this publication, the four were
found in possession of 31 discs written Freedom Movement#1980, 540
pamphlets written 11 Golden Rules of Our Revolution, the Little Green
Book, six chapter one photocopies of the Constitution, two copies of the
Constitution of Zimbabwe, books and one so called “Freedom Speech
document”.
The accused, being represented by Kudzai Choga, were remanded out of custody to February 20.
In his inaugural speech at the National Sports Stadium in Harare last
November, Mnangagwa promised to compensate white farmers who had lost
their properties under the controversial land reform programme.
He said while the land reform programme was inevitable and
irreversible and those farmers who lost their land during former
President Robert Mugabe’s reign would be compensated.
About 17 years ago, over 4 000 white farmers were driven off their
land in a violent campaign sanctioned by Mugabe and led by war veterans
to seize white-owned land.
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