Now that the Deputy Minister of Youth empowerment and indigenization, Thamsanqa Mahlangu,The police violated Mahlangu and have thus brought the image of the youth into disrepute. Police officers have a case to answer or at least an apology to make for this ill-treatment and utter disregard for the laws that protect citizens’ rights.
Whatever happened to the concept of innocent until proven guilty?
Lately justice in Zimbabwe has been a case of guilty until proven innocent, and young people are the biggest victims of this model. When one reports a case to the police they are asked who their first suspect is and more often than not the first suspect is the first one to be thrown into the cage and subjected to all the harsh treatment of a prison
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Who will clean up Mahlangu’s tarnished image? He will be forever known as the Cell phone thief and this is the man who is the face of youths in Zimbabwe. Despite the fact that he has been declared innocent, his image has a blotch that will stick with him until he is no longer a young person.
We surely hope that Mahlangu will take this opportunity of freedom to make the most of his powers in government.
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