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Zimbabwe’s treatment of its citizens makes things ripe for a coup

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A sustained combination of internal and external pressure is required to create a genuine civilian government

Human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa speaks to journalists outside the Harare high court. Picture: SUPPLIED

on citizens. Largely initiated via social media, the calls for the protests galvanised popular sentiment and mobilised citizens to exercise a co-ordinated political voice against corruption, the failing economy and repression. The regime responded by sending a strong signal to would-be dissenters. In a startling resemblance to events unfolding in, it arrested journalists and detained, abducted and tortured opposition members, or indeed anyone appearing to question the state.

For consistently exposing government malfeasance and corruption, veteran journalist Hopewell Chin’ono was

 

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