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Mugabe 'critic' summoned
19/07/2007 10:49 - (SA)
Harare - Zimbabwean police summoned a leader of the country's main union organisation to answer charges on Thursday that he called for President Robert Mugabe's overthrow in a May Day speech, said the movement.
While there was no immediate comment from the police, a spokesperson for the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions confirmed that its secretary-general Wellington Chibebe had gone with his lawyer to Harare's main police station.
Spokesperson Khumbulani Ndlovu said: "He has been called in connection with utterances he made at this year's May Day. According to the police, the utterances were meant to press for regime change."
Chibebe and the ZCTU had been some of the harshest critics of Mugabe and his handling of the economy, which was grappling with the effects of the world's highest rate of inflation and an unemployment rate of about 80%.
Mugabe had accused the ZCTU of being an appendage to the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change, whose leader Morgan Tsvangirai is a former head of the
labour body.
- AFP
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