On this day on Friday 08 January 2021, award winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono was arrested and took to court. Chin’ono was charged for ‘publishing and communicating false statements prejudicial to the state’. He had posted a story on twitter patterning an incident that a police officer assaulted a women in Harare’s central business district whilst in trying to enforce Covid-19 rules.
On this day in 2019, in Zimbabwe, top three officials, amonst them Sibusiso Moyo who were succumbed to COVID-19 were buried at the National Heroes Acre. There were put in a single ceremony at a shrine reserved almost exclusively for the ruling elite as a virulent second wave of the coronavirus takes a devastating toll in the country.