A well-known and award winning investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono, was arrested at his home on Monday 20 July and accused of inciting public violence for reporting on calls by Jacob Ngarivhume, an opposition politician, for a nationwide protest. This protest was scheduled for Friday 31 July and themed as a "national protest against corruption and political challenges". Ngarivhume himself was also arrested on similar charges. Many did not find the charges to be authentic as Chin'ono has recently, through his reporting, exposed corruption scandals implicating people within President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inner circle. His exposé on Covid-19 corruption to the value of R1.020 billion led to the dismissal of the then-minister of health Obadiah Moyo and his arrest on charges of corruption.