Zimbabwean Police have reportedly said they are now close to arresting opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party leader Nelson Chamisa, for inciting violence that led to the deadly military crackdown which left six people dead.

On the 1st August 2018, armed soldiers were deployed in the capital Harare Zimbebwe, to suppress a protest against delays in announcing results of the country's first elections without former ruler Robert Mugabe.

During the protest gunfire erupted and six people died, and Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa set up a commission of inquiry, headed by the former president of South African Kgalema Motlanthe to probe the killings.

Despite widely published photos and videos, showing the Zimbabwean soldiers firing on people in Harare, army generals said under oath this week that they did not believe the troops shot at people.

Giving oral evidence before the commission, Zimbabwe Defence Force Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda, said he did not believe the army was responsible for the carnage.