Political activist Linda Masarira has taken the fight to
President Emmerson Mnangagwa‚ challenging his legitimacy through the
Constitutional Court.
Masarira‚ argues that Mnangagwa rose to power through a
coup. "He is not the legitimate president; that's why we
filed our papers‚" said Masarira.
The papers were filed on Thursday. Last month‚ New Patriotic Front (NPF) petitioned SADC and
the AU about the November 2017 developments. In its argument‚ the party said
the military intervention was a bloody coup. This was repeated last week by
former President Robert Mugabe - Mugabe is listed as one of the parties in the
Constitutional Court papers - in a meeting with the AU chairman Moussa Faki.
But through a government gazette on November 25‚ the High
Court ruled that the military intervention was within the military's mandate
and‚ therefore‚ legal.
"Actions by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces to stop the
usurping of power by those close to former president Robert Mugabe are
constitutional‚" read the judgement.
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