The MDC Today
Wednesday 28 July 2010
The hearing of a State appeal in the acquittal of MDC Treasurer-General and deputy Agriculture minister-designate, Senator Roy Bennett was today postponed indefinitely at the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku postponed the appeal saying he needed more time to study the “voluminous submissions”. Senator Bennett was acquitted in May at the High Court on trumped –up banditry and terrorism charges.
However, the State appealed at the Supreme Court against the ruling. An MDC supporter, Eneresi Samaneka, 47, of Garabha village, Mubayiwa ward in Wedza has been hospitalised in Harare after she was heavily assaulted by four Zanu PF thugs. Angry Zanu PF supporters were looking for Samaneka’s brother, Willias Muzoronga, who is also a well-known MDC activist. Muzoronga had participated at a Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee (Copac) meeting held in area.
However, when they failed to locate him, the Zanu PF youths attacked Samaneka who sustained a broken limb. In Mashonaland West province, the councillor for Ward 4, Nyaminyami Rural District, David Mupfwepi has been expelled from office by the council’s chief executive after missing three full council meetings, which he was not informed of. According to a schedule presented to the councillor, Mupfwepi was supposed to attend council meetings on 9, 12 and 22 March 2010.
“However, the CEO deliberately kept the memo. I only learnt of the letter on 24 March when they sent J Miyozi, the agriculture and natural resources officer who brought some forms instructing me to sign them saying that I had missed three consecutive council meetings,” said Councillor Mupfwepi. The schedule is dated 8 March but it only got to Mupfwepi on 24 March.
Meanwhile, MDC Ward 3 secretary in Maramba Pfungwe, Mashonaland East, Wellington Sandi is living in fear after a group of Zanu PF supporters visited his house three times around mid-night looking for him after he snubbed a forced Zanu PF meeting in the area. He has however, managed to evade them on the three occasions and has since fled from his home. Sandi said that Zanu PF supporters were having meetings at Nyakarowa School where MDC supporters are brought to renounce their MDC membership and cards.
In Guruve, Mashonaland Central province, Zanu PF youth militia are parading and singing threatening songs at Guruve growth point ahead of next week’s Copac meetings.
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