SA envoys snub Chamisa

BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE
SPECIAL envoys appointed by African Union chairperson, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to probe reports of gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe jetted out of the country yesterday after aborting their proposed meetings with the opposition and civic society groups under unclear circumstances.

Baleka Mbete, Sydney Mufamadi and advocate Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi met President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House and were expected to meet main opposition MDC Alliance leader
Nelson Chamisa and civic society organisations.

The trio arrived on a fact-finding mission “following recent reports of difficulties that the Republic of Zimbabwe is experiencing”, according to a statement by Ramaphosa’s office last week.

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