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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>ZANU PF activist Sybeth Musengezi who challenged president Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s legitimacy in court was granted ZW$30 000 bail on Friday after more than a week in custody.<\/p>\n

Musengezi was arrested and detained last week accused of using a false address to attain ZANU PF membership in 2012.<\/p>\n

His lawyers said this was an attempt by Mnangagwa to strip him of his ZANU PF membership so that he has no legal standing to pursue his court action.<\/p>\n

Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda said it appeared to him that Musengezi had not supplied \u201cfictitious\u201d addresses to secure ZANU PF membership but it was state informants who did so. He added that Musengezi was eligible for ZANU PF membership.<\/p>\n

ZimLive cites Musengezi\u2019s lawyer Douglas Coltart as saying that the bail ruling exposed the state\u2019s cooked-up allegations bent on victimising his client for challenging Mnangagwa\u2019s \u201cunconstitutional\u201d ascendancy to power. Said Coltart:<\/p>\n

The magistrate\u2019s finding that Musengezi was eligible for ZANU PF membership really underscores how baseless these charges are because if he was eligible then he could not have defrauded ZANU PF by becoming a member.<\/p>\n

It really demonstrates that this case is all about persecuting him for being someone who had a different view within the party and who spoke up and took action against unconstitutional practices within the party.<\/p>\n

Musengezi filed a court application last year challenging Mnangagwa\u2019s ascension to ZANU PF leadership following the ouster of the late former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe.<\/p>\n

Mnangagwa\u2019s legal team demanded that the charges be dropped in letters to his lawyers.<\/p>\n

Musengezi later revealed that he had received death threats, which he believes were part of a coercive effort to get him to drop his court application.<\/p>\n

Musengezi\u2019s court application has worsened factionalism within ZANU PF amid reports that he is being sent by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. ZANU PF activist Sybeth Musengezi who challenged president Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s legitimacy in court was granted ZW$30 000 bail on Friday after more than a week in custody. Musengezi was arrested and detained last week accused of using a false address to attain ZANU PF membership in 2012. 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