Subversion suspects back in court
THE new dispensation is striving to cushion its people, especially women from the harsh effects of the illegal sanctions imposed on the country by Western nations, through a number of programmes guided by President Mnangagwa’s broad vision to achieve an upper-middle class economy by 2030, Zanu-PF national chairwoman Cde Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has said.
She was addressing members of the Zanu-PF Women’s League during an anti-sanctions build-up programme at the ruling party’s headquarters on Wednesday.
“Zimbabwe is the first country in SADC to have a Women’s Bank as well as the Youth Empower Bank. This demonstrates commitment from the highest office in the land to achieve sustainable gender equality,” she said.
“The new dispensation under President E D Mnangagwa has pledged to reform its political and economic sectors in its thrust to engage and re-engage the international community.
“Let me take this opportunity to salute and thank our leader the President and First Secretary, Cde E D Mnangagwa for his visionary leadership, which has seen our country being able to start to normalise relations with the global family of nations through his re-engagement efforts.”
She added that the “Zimbabwe is open for business” policy has created an ease of doing business environment, which has seen laws being ushered in to compliment the policy.
“Zimbabwe has been opened up to investors through the ‘Zimbabwe is Open for Business’ policy and this also opens up avenues for women to grow their business through strategic partnerships.
‘‘I urge all women to take advantage of these opportunities and organise yourselves so that you are also part of the real and big business ventures. Women are not only suited for SMEs.
“In order to create an ease of doing business environment a number of laws have been aligned with the new thrust and already the efforts are yielding fruits.” MEMBERS of shadowy anti- Government organisations who allegedly received training in Maldives with the intention to roll out violent demonstrations in the country and subvert a constitutionally- elected Government, will be back in court on January 7, 2020 when the State will provide a trial date.
Prosecutor Mr Charles Muchemwa applied for a postponement citing that investigations were still going on.
He applied for a longer remand period, promising that on the next remand date the State will serve the accused with a trial date.
“We would have placed our house in order on the next remand date, if the State fails to provide the accused with a trial date after this long remand, they will be removed from remand,” said Mr Muchemwa.
Harare magistrate Mrs Learnmore Mapiye remanded the matter citing that the court had noted the time the accused persons are on remand and the offence they are facing.
“The court is giving the State a last chance to furnish the accused persons with a trial date,” she said.
According to the State, on May 13, the accused persons connived with their accomplices and travelled to the Maldives, where they underwent a training workshop organised by a Serbian non- governmental organisation, the Centre for Applied Non- violent Action and Strategies ( CANVAS), with the intent to subvert a constitutionally- elected Government.
They were arrested upon arrival at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.
Their laptops and cellphones, which contained the subversive materials, were recovered and were sent to Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe ( Potraz) for extraction of evidence.
CANVAS confirmed in a statement that it had trained the accused persons.