Remember Moyo released from police custody on bail

By Tichaona Sibanda

19 December 2005

Militant MDC activist and chairman of the Zimbabwe Action Support Group, Remember Moyo has been released from police custody in South Africa after paying bail.

Moyo, who was in custody for 6 days after he was picked up by the Scorpions, an elite South African police unit, described his ordeal as a small administrative hiccup. He had been arrested for allegedly using false documents.

His bail conditions, however, restrict him from briefing the press on the exact details of the case. Moyo still believes his brush with the law could have something to do with the signing of a security and defence pact between South Africa and Zimbabwe.

He said: ‘In politics you never discount such theories until you prove yourself wrong. Otherwise the timing of the whole thing caught me by surprise to be honest’.

Moyo totally denied ever using false documents, claiming that the only time he used South African documents was on record with the authorities. By the time he went back to Zimbabwe, Moyo said he surrendered the documents to the Home Affairs officials.

‘That’s why I’ am saying this is a small issue. Maybe the people who got my documents back in the late 1990’s deleted that on my file. Otherwise my stay here is legal under the United Nations refugee convention of 1951,’ he said.