Vic Falls bookshop owner arrested as police plant subversive material in President Tsvangirai’s book

Friday, 20 January 2012

Police in Victoria Falls today arrested a bookshop owner, Sinekiwe Matore for selling the President Tsvangirai’s book, At the Deep at End at her shop.

Matore is the owner of Rosepet Bookshop in central Victoria Falls Town. The police officers are also looking for Matore’s business partner, Mlamuli Mabhena.

On 17 January 2012, the police raided the bookshop and confiscated all the 10 books in stock, which they took to the police station before asking Matore and Mabhena to produce invoices showing how they had purchased the books.

The receipts produced showed the books had been purchased at a bookshop in Harare.

However, today, Friday, one police officer who identified himself as Officer Shiri from the Law and Order Section went to Rosepet and arrested Matore.

At the police station, the police had planted some subversive material, red cards and small MDC flags inside all the 10 books. One of the subversive materials has a list of 11 Zanu PF officials including Robert Mugabe which claims that they should be eliminated.

The Victoria Falls police are now desperate to place false charges against the two bookshop owners by the planting seditious material in order take them to court.

Last year, senior MDC officials at Harvest House, the MDC headquarters, unearthed a plot by State security agents to plant incriminating evidence at the party offices, the Prime Minister’s offices and his residence in order to arrest several senior party officials.

At the Deep End is an autobiography of President Tsvangirai and was officially launched last December. At its launch at Harare’s Book Café, At the Deep End sold a staggering 235 copies within two hours, with the President at hand to personally autograph them.

The 663 page book chronicles President Tsvangirai’s personal and political life.

The book, according to President Tsvangirai, was titled At the Deep End on account of the challenges he has faced, some of which were “knife-edge and like being thrown at the deep end”.

“I had to swim and overcome all the obstacles,” the President says.

He said that so much had been written about him from other people’s perspectives and not from his own view-point.

The book is doing well in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the SADC region at large while it is also selling well in Europe, USA and Australia.

At the Deep End was written by President Tsvangirai in collaboration with his former spokesperson and veteran journalist, Tagwirei William Bango. The book was published by Penguin Books of South Africa.

Those who would like to order copies can contact Edith on 263 772 248 568.

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MDC Information & Publicity Department
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