High Court acquits Chirumanzu CCC activists

THE High Court on Tuesday this week acquitted Chirumanzu South candidate for the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in the August 2023 elections Patrick Cheza and four party activists who were  being accused of assaulting Zanu PF legislator and Tourism and Hospitality Industry minister Barbara Rwodzi.

Sitting at the High Court in Masvingo, Justice Ainsley Zisengwe granted Cheza’s application for review against the refusal of discharge by Gweru magistrate Beaulity Dube.

Dube had refused to discharge Cheza and his co-accused at the close of the State’s case and the activists’ lawyers, Esau Mandipa and Leopold Mudisi, approached the higher court for a review of the lower court’s decision.

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