Masvingo cops grabbed some Mirror reporters who went to check out water pipe damage at a disputed property tied to provincial minister Ezra Chadzamira, but the trespassing charges flopped after a three-hour detention. Police then pivoted to investigating whether the newspaper's Toyota Aqua matched a vehicle caught on security cameras during robberies that netted cash from a local store, and they forced the accountant to hand over registration docs for verification at the road authority.
The car got cleared by officials who confirmed everything was legit and up to date with fees, but sources claim people pretending to be intelligence agents and working for Chadzamira kept pressuring law enforcement to nail the journalists with something. The whole situation kicked off when reporters showed up at a plot where construction crews were allegedly breaking city water infrastructure while building a school on land that court documents say belongs to someone else entirely.
Mirror consultant Matthew Takaona called out the provincial minister for weaponizing cops and spies to settle personal beefs, and he warned that journalists will keep covering public interest stories without backing down from fake operatives rolling around in government vehicles.
The car got cleared by officials who confirmed everything was legit and up to date with fees, but sources claim people pretending to be intelligence agents and working for Chadzamira kept pressuring law enforcement to nail the journalists with something. The whole situation kicked off when reporters showed up at a plot where construction crews were allegedly breaking city water infrastructure while building a school on land that court documents say belongs to someone else entirely.
Mirror consultant Matthew Takaona called out the provincial minister for weaponizing cops and spies to settle personal beefs, and he warned that journalists will keep covering public interest stories without backing down from fake operatives rolling around in government vehicles.
