MASVINGO — A lecturer at the Great Zimbabwe University has been taken to court after labelling President Robert Mugabe “an impotent wife-snatcher”.
Tatenda Chitagu
Chenjerai Pamhiri (38), of house number 3392 Muchecheni Street in Rujeko Surburb, a music and musicology lecturer, was arrested after allegedly uttering the words at Chemberi Bar in Mushava on September 2.
He appeared for initial remand before magistrate Langton Ndokera on Monday facing a charge of undermining the authority of, or insulting the President, as defined in Section 33 (2) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act. Pamhiri, represented by Philip Shumba of Mutendi and Shumba Law firm, was remanded out of custody to September 20.
Appearing for the State, Shamiso Masokovere told the court that at around 12:30pm, Pamhiri, at a beer drink, saw Antony Muvha wearing a Zanu PF T-shirt emblazoned with Mugabe’s picture.
He allegedly said that he was a member of the losing MDC-T party. The accused allegedly insulted Mugabe in Shona saying, he did not support a party led by an impotent 89-year-old, who has no grandchildren and who chased away a man and remained taking the wife.
This is not the first time Pamhiri has been brought to the courts for insulting Mugabe.
In May this year, he was sentenced to three months in prison, after he labelled Mugabe “a dirty, rotten old donkey”, but he appealed against both sentence and conviction.
