Five journalists were caught up in demonstrations that rocked Harare and Bulawayo on Monday 14 January 2019. In Bulawayo, three journalists working with Centre for Innovation and Technology (CITE) were affected. Zenzele Ndebele reports that a police officer in the back of a moving vehicle pointed a gun at him when he was in the process of covering riots in Bulawayo's Nkulumane suburb.
Abigirl Khupe and Lulu Brenda Harris both with the same organisation were teargassed as they covered protests in different parts of Bulawayo's business district. Khupe was covering protesters as they moved from City Hall. Harris was reporting on protests that broke outside the Bulawayo High Court where Chief Justice Malaba officiated over the opening of the 2019 Legal Year.
...