{"id":447345,"date":"2011-06-24T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/24\/tsvangirai-aide-held-in-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:01:01","slug":"tsvangirai-aide-held-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/24\/tsvangirai-aide-held-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsvangirai aide held in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"77.8631402183\"><span><span>24 June 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>15:01 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwean police have arrested government minister, Jameson Timba, an ally of PM Morgan Tsvangirai, his MDC party says.<\/p>\n<p>It said he was held on a charge of undermining President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s authority.<\/p>\n<p>The MDC says the arrest followed a newspaper report that quoted Mr Timba as saying Mr Mugabe had lied about a regional summit on Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Under Zimbabwean law it is a criminal offence to insult the president.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsvangirai&#8217;s Movement for Democratic Change and Mr Mugabe&#8217;s Zanu-PF party have had a fractious relationship since forming a unity government after disputed elections in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The government has helped stabilise the country in the past two years, but human rights activists say they are worried about reports of increased political harassment of Mr Mugabe&#8217;s opponents in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Elton Mangoma, the MDC energy minister in the coalition administration, was arrested on charges of corruption.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Strange arrest&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Brian Hungwe in the capital, Harare, says Mr Timba was arrested on Friday afternoon soon after his arrival from Spain, where he had been accompanying the prime minister on a business trip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The MDC finds it strange that the minister can be arrested on the basis of a newspaper report,&#8221; the MDC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Timba was quoted by South Africa&#8217;s Sunday Times newspaper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sundaytimes\/2011\/06\/19\/mugabe-a-liar\" title=\"Sunday Times article\">under the headline &#8220;Mugabe a liar&#8221;<\/a>, as questioning Zanu-PF&#8217;s account of recent summits of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc), the regional body that negotiated Zimbabwe&#8217;s power-sharing agreement.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly contradicted Mr Mugabe&#8217;s claim that regional leaders withdrew a damning report on the slow pace of reforms and renewed political violence in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party have been pushing for polls this year, but the MDC argues that without a new constitution and electoral reforms, forthcoming polls would not be free and fair.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsvangirai won the first round of the presidential election in 2008 but he withdrew from the run-off against Mr Mugabe after systematic attacks on his supporters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-africa-13904117\" title=\"Tsvangirai aide held in Zimbabwe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tsvangirai aide held in Zimbabwe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 24 June 2011 Last updated at 15:01 ET Zimbabwean police have arrested government minister, Jameson Timba, an ally of PM Morgan Tsvangirai, his MDC party says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":447331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-447345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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