adminHowever, no date has been set for the their trial. Charles Thomas, John Gazi and Paul Siwela are yet to be formally charged with treason and have been appearing in court for routine remand.
Thomas (44) and Siwela (49) appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Mrs Sibongile Msipa yesterday while Gazi (54) did not appear because he is in prison for a case of fraud.
They are out on US$2 000 bail on the treason case.
The trio was then further remanded to 5 January when their case would then be transferred to the High Court to be heard during the first quarter.
On 1 March, the trio, in the company of seven others who are still at large, held an executive meeting at Siwela’s office at Number 3 Princess Court.
The State is alleging that at the meeting, they connived and agreed to distribute fliers of which among others had the following messages: “Vukani njengabantu base Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt leTunisia ngabantu labo njengathi balegazi bo.”
The State will seek to prove that they tried to influence people to demonstrate against the Government and advocate for a separate state of Mthwakazi.
On 3 March, the State alleges that the trio went about distributing the fliers and some calendars.
The fliers were addressed to different groups in society like churches, non-governmental organisations, civil servants and political parties.
Mr Dumisani Moyo appeared for the State.
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