Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga holds a placard during an anti-corruption march along Borrowdale road, in Harare; she was arrested and freed on bail the following day. HARARE: Zimbabwean top writer and Booker Prize nominee, Tsitsi Dangarembga was freed on bail on Saturday following her arrest during anti-government protests a day earlier.
Police had banned the protests called by opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume, head of a small party called Transform Zimbabwe, against alleged state corruption and the country's slumping economy.The Cambridge-educated author's arrest came days after her latest novel,"This Mournable Body", entered the long list for the Booker Prize."I'm happy to be out in the fresh air," Dangarembga told AFP as she left the magistrates' court.
Mahere live-streamed via Facebook images of riot police scaling metal barriers into a suburban eatery to which she had retreated after her protest."We should continue to stare the beast in the face. Fear is not an option. We can't be afraid to speak out against poverty, injustice and corruption," she told AFP.The magistrates' court released the two women on ZW$5,000 bail and ordered them to return on Sep 18.
The warning and the heavy security presence on the streets effectively thwarted the planned nationwide street protests.Dangarembga was arrested carrying placards calling for reforms and the release of Hopewell Chin'ono, a prominent journalist arrested last week under the government crackdown.
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