Monday, 10 March 2014

Mthwakazi duo found guilty of demonstrating for Mthwakazi jobs

Why kumele kuthathwe abetshabi ukuthi bazosebenza koMthwakazi ulutsha lugcwele unemployed kwelakithi??????????????????????????????????????????

TWO Mthwakazi Youth Leaders' Joint Resolution activists , Mqondisi Moyo and
Busani Sibindi have been found guilty of organising a demonstration against the
Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) move to employ 300 people allegedly from outside Bulawayo at its Insukamini substation
in Emgwanwini suburb .
Bulawayo magistrate Crispen Mberewere found the pair guilty of "failing to notify the regulatory authority for Bulawayo South on their march on 8 April 2013," according to their lawyer, Dumisani Dube of Mabhikwa, Hikwa and Nyathi law firm.
They will be sentenced tomorrow (Tuesday). Radio Dialogue reported that the rest of the group will know their fate later today when they will be arraigned before magistrate Mberewere on criminal nuisance charges.
The group was arrested on allegations of holding an illegal demonstration and being a nuisance to the public and causing hatred to a particular group of people which was later dropped.
The State's case is that the 23 were a criminal nuisance when they marched along
Plumtree Road from Bellevue Spar towards the city centre where they intended to hand in a petition to Zesa management in Bulawayo.
They also allegedly blocked traffic making it difficult for motorists and other residents to use the road. They were allegedly accusing Zesa of
employing more than 300 people from outside Bulawayo and Matabeleland region
to work at its projects . They were allegedly carrying placards with
messages that read as: "Zesa stop smuggling labour it is illegal, Zesa management stop importing labour-stop discriminating, Zesa stop busing labour-scandalous authorities, Zesa corrupt-the jobs belong to us and not
imported youths, Mthwakazi youth leaders insist on executive devolution of power-stopdestroying us."
The other message was: "Mthwakazi youth
leaders joint resolution demand that Zesa
and other companies stop importing labour
from other provinces outside Matabeleland."

Mina Mthwakazi ngithi aliqunywe sikhathele ngokuphathwa butshapha ngabetshabi........

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