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Zimbabwe: Man Jailed Over Baba Jukwa

By Gerry Jackson, 31 July 2013

The state controlled Herald newspaper is reporting that a Chegutu man will spend 4 months in jail for sending what it described as obscene messages to numbers the man found on the popular Baba Jukwa Facebook page.

It's alleged that Josiah Mahovoya sent messages to police head Augustine Chihuri and the ZANU PF parliamentary candidate for Chegutu West, Dexter Nduna. The paper said the man got the numbers from the Baba Jukwa page and that he was arrested a day after sending' vulgar messages.'

The state is sending a clear message by this action and it is an obvious attempt to try and clamp down on the increasing use of social media activism.

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