Seventeen suspects arrested on Friday night for staging violent protests that resulted in the vandalism of infrastructure, looting of shops and burning of a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority warehouse in Beitbridge, appeared in court yesterday charged with public violence. The group is part of a mob of 71 people arrested on similar charges while protesting the implementation of Statutory Instrument No 64 of 2016 that removes listed products from the Open General Import Licence so requiring importers to obtain a specific licence. ......
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