{"id":759,"date":"2019-01-01T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=759"},"modified":"2019-01-01T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T15:04:12","slug":"govt-to-tighten-screws-on-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/govt-to-tighten-screws-on-protesters","title":{"rendered":"Govt to tighten screws on protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u00a0Government has threatened to deal with opposition parties who are planning to protest this year saying they are abusing the \u201cnew found\u201d freedom.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In an interview with the Daily News yesterday Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi said in 2019 the government will not hesitate to take action against opposition parties that are planning to hold demonstrations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cMDC is failing to uphold the Constitution, they are playing double standards, it is the very same Constitution which declared President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the winner, ironically they are refusing to accept the verdict of the Constitutional Court but they want to use the same Constitution to demonstrate.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cOur laws are very clear; we want to hold them for their actions using the same laws. We can\u2019t continue to have people who abuse the law for their own benefit. There are limitations on demonstration rights.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Asked if the government is planning to amend the country\u2019s laws so that they can thwart any demonstration, Ziyambi said the laws are there to deal with any form of unlawful protest.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cFor the amendment we need two thirds majority and a referendum but currently we have adequate laws to deal with this. We are going to respect and uphold the Constitution but we are not going to tolerate those who abuse the rights of other people in the name of demonstrations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI think the MDC leadership is potraying a childish behaviour because they are saying they don\u2019t want to recognise &#8230; Mnangagwa\u2019s victory but they want to ask questions to ministers in Parliament forgetting that all the ministers were appointed by &#8230; Mnangagwa.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ziyambi\u2019s sentiments come after Zanu PF secretary for youth league Pupurai Togarepi promised that they would crush all dissenting voices in the new year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe have been tolerant \u2026 before and after elections. We won\u2019t take any prisoners in 2019. Any provocation will be confronted head-on.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe rules of the game have completely changed,\u201d Togarepi said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>MDC president Nelson Chamisa has been brawling with Mnangagwa ever since he narrowly lost the hotly-disputed July 30 presidential election \u2014 whose result he vigorously challenged at the Con-Court.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The youthful opposition leader even went to the extent of accusing the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of manipulating the poll results in favour of the Zanu PF leader.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But Mnangagwa\u2019s victory was upheld by the Con-Court, which ruled that Chamisa had failed to provide evidence that he had won the election.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last month, he held a massive demonstration in Harare where he lashed at Mnangagwa, exhorting the president to act on the deteriorating political and economic situation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile, Ziyambi said the government is in a process of building strong institutions to curb corruption.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe have the political will to end corruption. Since 1980 up to 2017 our institutions have been weak to deal with corruption. After the coming in of Mnangagwa we are now busy strengthening those institutions so that we can curb corruption. In 2019 you are going to see a lot of convictions; we have an acting Prosecutor General who is hungry to stop corruption.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Government has threatened to deal with opposition parties who are planning to protest this year saying they are abusing the \u201cnew found\u201d freedom. 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