DEWA MAVHINGA
A high-level delegation from South Africa has been dispatched to Zimbabwe to try to find a solution to the country’s escalating economic and political crisis.
The team, led by the head of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) party Secretary-General Ace Magashule, has met with officials from Zimbabwe’s ruling African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party. Its priority should be calling on the government to urgently address the country’s deteriorating human rights situation.
While the Zimbabwe government insists there is no crisis, under Emmerson Mnangagwa’s presidency, the abduction and torture of critics of the government has escalated, largely without the arrest of those responsible. In the past year, unidentified assailants, suspected to be state security agents, have abducted and tortured more than 70 government critics.
Zimbabwe’s security forces have also increasingly committed arbitrary arrests, violent assaults, abductions, torture, and other abuses against the political opposition, dissidents, and activists. The
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