When Evan Mawarire was locked in a small, dank cell in Zimbabwe’s notorious Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, there was a brief moment when he just wanted out. “I literally regretted everything I had done that led me there,” he told PRI. “But as the days passed, I gradually accepted that […]
Baptist Pastor Evan Mawarire is something of a cult figure in Zimbabwe. He’s known for proudly wearing his country’s national red, yellow, green, black and white flag around his neck. And Mawarire has deftly used social media to push his #ThisFlag hashtag campaign seeking social justice and constitutional rights, for […]
Enraged by the dire economic situation in his country, the 40-year-old pastor from the Zimbabwean capital Harare released a homemade video in April 2016. Draped in the country’s flag, Mawarire lamented the state Zimbabwe found itself in and the leadership vacuum created during President Robert Mugabe’s 37 years in power. […]
Information Communication Techonology minister Supa Mandiwanzira yesterday apologised to #ThisFlag leader, Evan Mawarire, for falsely accusing him of skipping bail when he went into self-imposed exile in the United States, six months ago. Mandiwanzira last week told British ambassador, Catriona Laing, that the cleric’s arrest on arrival at the Harare International […]
