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MDC-T activists in trouble for throwing flyers at State House

Politics
Ten MDC-T activists facing charges of throwing their party campaign flyers at State House in Bulawayo were on Friday further remanded to December 19. Mandlenkosi Sibanda (18), Andrew Nyathi (32), Siamatende Dick Munsaka (50), Jackson Lunga (28), Clever Sibanda (18), Mthulisi Nkiwane (23), Sharlene Ndlovu (23), Lillian Moyo (26) Joseph Ndlovu (30) and a juvenile […]

Ten MDC-T activists facing charges of throwing their party campaign flyers at State House in Bulawayo were on Friday further remanded to December 19.

Mandlenkosi Sibanda (18), Andrew Nyathi (32), Siamatende Dick Munsaka (50), Jackson Lunga (28), Clever Sibanda (18), Mthulisi Nkiwane (23), Sharlene Ndlovu (23), Lillian Moyo (26) Joseph Ndlovu (30) and a juvenile aged (17) were not formally charged with criminal nuisance when they appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Tawanda Muchemwa.

They are all out of custody on $20 bail each. Charges against them are that on September 17 at about 1:30pm, the 10, acting in common purpose, went to the State House along Shollor Road Sauerstown suburb.

They allegedly threw some flyers with their party’s campaign messages into the fence at State House.

However, they were allegedly spotted by security personnel, but fled the scene with the President’s guards in hot pursuit.

The guards allegedly apprehended the juvenile and Sibanda who in turn implicated eight others, leading to their arrest.