The MDC Today
Wednesday 11 August 2010
MDC activists in Shurugwi North have gone into hiding following continued threats on their lives from the councillor and soldiers in their area. Mr Witness Chimunhu and his wife, Shamiso, who is also the ward 14 chairperson, are being tracked on allegations that they were mobilising people against the councillor, Glady’s Nhema, Chief Nhema and the local MP, Francis Nhema.
An army captain, Major Vhutoi, attached to operation Maguta in Gweru is leading the team that has visited the Chimunhu residence on numerous occasions in search for the two.
The two have been informed of this search by some sympathetic police officers who gave Mr Chimunhu a copy of a letter written by the councilor to the police and copied to the MP, and the Zanu PF DCC instructing the police to arrest them.
In Mashonaland Central, an MDC activist in Shamva was on Monday evicted from her rented one-roomed apartment in Shamva after the local councillor threatened the landlady with unspecified action if her tenant remained at the house. The MDC Shamva district secretary for local government, Zvanyadza Chirige (30) has since relocated to Harare fearing for her life after continued victimization and threats at the hands of a Zanu PF ward 22 councillor Mai Mupeza.
Zvanyadza said she had lost her vending table three months ago from the same councillor, with the help of Zanu PF youth and two other women, Mai Masanzu and Mai Chimanga. After this she started using her mother’s stall before the councilor again stopped her trade. “Clr Mupeza said if my mother did not intend to use the stall then she should surrender it to council and forced me to leave the stall. This was before she ordered my land lady to evict me from the house,” Zvanyadza said.
She said that life was not easy for her and her three children aged between 10 and two as selling wares was her only means of livelihood. She reported the matter at Shamva police station but no action has been taken.
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