The activists led by Job Sikhala ex-finance minister Tendai Biti and Jameson Timba say they are determined to continue with their campaign against Mnangagwa's ‘2030 agenda'...
At the 27 June launch of Job Sikhala's prison memoir Footprints in the Chains Chamisa spoke of uniting the opposition...
On 1 July five members of oppositionist Job Sikhala's National Democratic Working Group were arrested for distributing food in Kuwadzana a Harare township...
Later that day the government released opposition heavyweight Job Sikhala who has been held on pre-trial detention in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison since 2022...
CCC spokeswoman Fadzayi Mahere says there is room for improvement: 'We want the government to ensure all parties have fair media coverage we also demand that Zanu-PF stops using violence against its critics and the government stops persecuting activists like Job Sikhala (an opposition MP) and Jacob Ngarivhume (leader of the opposition Transform Zimbabwe party) ' said Mahere...
At the beginning of May Job Sikhala CCC deputy chairman was convicted of obstructing justice and sentenced to six months in prison or a US$600 fine...
As well as the usual ZANU-PF invective the CCC will be hit with nuisance court actions such as the ongoing prosecution of the party Vice-Chairman Job Sikhala MP who has been denied bail 10 times since his arrest in June at the funeral of an opposition activist whose dismembered body was dumped in a well (AC Vol 63 No 23 Mnangagwa to lead ZANU-PF onslaught against opposition)...
But another prominent lawmaker in the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Job Sikhala remains inside with 13 others...
On 15 October Mwonzora's party issued a statement saying he had 'visited the Honourable Job Sikhala' and that the party was as concerned for Sikhala as 'we would be for any other Zimbabwean'...
Amnesty International has said that the detention for over three months of CCC legislators Godfrey Sithole and Job Sikhala the party's vice-chairman is based on 'trumped up charges' and is 'an effort to persecute and silence political opposition'...
The MDC's Vice-Chairman Job Sikhala was arrested and charged with plotting to overthrow the government in July...