{"id":26204,"date":"2020-08-08T23:46:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T21:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=26204"},"modified":"2020-08-08T23:46:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T21:46:36","slug":"zim-has-nothing-to-hide-over-unfounded-abuse-allegations-matemadanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-has-nothing-to-hide-over-unfounded-abuse-allegations-matemadanda","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Zim has nothing to hide over unfounded abuse allegations\u2019 \u2013 Matemadanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZIMBABWE Liberation War Veterans Association Secretary-General, Cde Victor Matemadanda has slammed the country\u2019s detractors over the continued misinformed onslaught regarding alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media this Saturday in the capital, Cde Matemadanda dismissed claims of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe adding that the move to stop the 31st July planned demonstrations was in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) precautionary measures against the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery country under WHO instructions is enforcing COVID -19 restrictions and Zimbabwe cannot be an exception simply because Hopewell Chin\u2019ono and others want to cause a demo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not find any leader anywhere having the morality to think that we should have sacrificed the lives of our people because someone wants to have a demonstration, that\u2019s outrageous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZimbabwe is a sovereign state with a mandate to safeguard the lives of people. Our decision to follow WHO guidelines is not by mistake and we are still convinced that because of the spike in Covid-19 cases, gatherings should remain banned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cde Matemadanda said the government of Zimbabwe has nothing to hide over the unchecked abuse allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cry about the abuses, that if it happened needs to be investigated case by case, bit can\u2019t have a blanket cover but we did not see where it happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen people feigning abductions as a drive up to the period where you now find the Khamas and Malema\u2019s interfering thinking they are now the chief justice of the Democratic process in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that is uncalled for. We are happy that ANC and South Africa has set up a fact-finding mission to verify exactly what happened because we have nothing to hide because nothing happened,\u201d noted Matemadanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZIMBABWE Liberation War Veterans Association Secretary-General, Cde Victor Matemadanda has slammed the country\u2019s detractors over the continued misinformed onslaught regarding alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe. Addressing the media this Saturday in the capital, Cde Matemadanda dismissed claims of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe adding that the move to stop the 31st July planned demonstrations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1449,1388],"class_list":{"0":"post-26204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"tag-chinono","10":"tag-covid-19"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Zim has nothing to hide over unfounded abuse allegations\u2019 \u2013 Matemadanda - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ZIMBABWE Liberation War Veterans Association Secretary-General, Cde Victor Matemadanda has slammed the country\u2019s detractors over the continued misinformed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-has-nothing-to-hide-over-unfounded-abuse-allegations-matemadanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Zim has nothing to hide over unfounded abuse allegations\u2019 \u2013 Matemadanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ZIMBABWE Liberation War Veterans Association Secretary-General, Cde Victor Matemadanda has slammed the country\u2019s detractors over the continued misinformed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-has-nothing-to-hide-over-unfounded-abuse-allegations-matemadanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-08T21:46:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/08\/matemadanda.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"735\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-has-nothing-to-hide-over-unfounded-abuse-allegations-matemadanda\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-has-nothing-to-hide-over-unfounded-abuse-allegations-matemadanda\",\"name\":\"\u2018Zim has nothing to hide over unfounded abuse allegations\u2019 \u2013 Matemadanda - 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