VP Chiwenga’s ex-wife applies for removal from remand

Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s ex-wife, Mary Mubaiwa, who is accused of attempting to kill him in a South African hospital in 2019, has filed an application for refusal of further remand, arguing that she has been on remand over the same matter for the past seven years.

Through her lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, Mubaiwa said keeping her on remand that long without trial was a miscarriage of justice.

But the State represented by Lancelot Mutsokoti argued that they were still locating and re-issuing summonses to witnesses for the trial to start afresh under a new magistrate.

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