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D-Day for Mugabe in court
08 Feb 2017 at 05:39hrs | Views
The Constitutional Court is today expected to rule on whether President Robert Mugabe who turns 93 in a few weeks is still fit to govern due to his advanced age.
Activist Promise Mkwananzi, leader of a social movement calling itself #Tajamuka filed a court application saying Mugabe was wilfully violating the national constitution in many respects, including gross human rights abuses.
He said many Zimbabweans were now leaving in fear of Mugabe who has threatened anyone with divergent views "to leave the country and in those countries that are sponsoring them".
"Please take notice that the above constitutional application will be heard and determined by the Constitutional Court at Harare on Wednesday the 8th day of February 2017 at 09:30 or soon thereafter as counsel may be heard," said the court's registrar in a letter to Mkwananzi that was copied to the Attorney General's Office.
Mugabe was cited as the respondent.
Mugabe's health is increasingly now a cause for concern as he often travelled to Singapore for treatment of an eye cataract.
Activist Promise Mkwananzi, leader of a social movement calling itself #Tajamuka filed a court application saying Mugabe was wilfully violating the national constitution in many respects, including gross human rights abuses.
He said many Zimbabweans were now leaving in fear of Mugabe who has threatened anyone with divergent views "to leave the country and in those countries that are sponsoring them".
Mugabe was cited as the respondent.
Mugabe's health is increasingly now a cause for concern as he often travelled to Singapore for treatment of an eye cataract.
Source - Byo24News
