Another MDC MP’s family attacked in Chivhu
By Tichaona Sibanda
3 June 2008

The family of MDC MP elect for Mbare in Harare Piniel Denga was attacked by a group of Zanu-PF supporters at Daybroke resettlement scheme in Chivhu on Sunday. Denga told us that his elder brother and several nephews and nieces were force-marched from the family homestead to a torture camp at a place called Chipisa.

He explained that when his relatives got to the camp they were ordered to denounce the MDC and all its leaders. They were also told that Denga had sold out by standing as an MP for Mbare and that the family had to be taught a lesson in patriotism. The whole family was then set upon by thugs wielding logs.
His brother sustained a broken leg while one of his nieces broke a hand, and others received lacerations to their bodies. All members are now safe and receiving treatment, but have vowed to return to their wards to vote in the June 27th election.

Denga said that everyone in the area is sick and tired of Zanu-PF violence and they want to bring things to an end as soon a possible.

The attack on Denga’s family comes a few days after family members of spokesman Nelson Chamisa were also attacked in Gutu last week Friday.

Chamisa said armed soldiers and suspected ZANU-PF militia members assaulted his mother and grandmother and younger brother at his rural home in the Chiwara communal lands of Gutu South constituency in Masvingo province. The attackers then proceeded to seek out and batter Chamisa’s other relatives in the village.