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MDC
youths run amok in Harare South
Zimbabwe
Peace Project
April
20, 2005
A group of 7
unidentified MDC youths sporting t-shirts emblazoned with their
party's colours and symbol yesterday allegedly went on the rampage
in the Waterfalls-Prospect residential areas claiming they were
on the hunt for unnamed Zanu PF activists they asserted to have
caused terror in the constituency in the un-up to the March general
elections.
According to
eyewitnesses, the youths, who were evidently on an alcohol-induced
daze, harassed vegetable vendors at Cheviot road shopping centre
before proceeding towards Irvines Poultry complex where they claimed
one of their intended quarry, JF, a war veteran was hiding.
The war veteran,
it is claimed, led a Zanu PF 'voter education' committee that terrorised
newly resettled people in the surrounding farms in the constituency.
The committee, according to information at hand, was based at the
Vivian Mwashita High School, situated on a farm she owns. Mwashita
is a strong Zanu PF activist and war veteran popularly known for
her political fights with Margaret Dongo, who contested as an independent
candidate for Harare Central in the just ended general elections.
James Mushonga
of the opposition party lost to Magadzire Nyanhongo of the ruling
party after polling 10716 votes to the later's 11545 ballots in
a tightly contested race.
The youths,
reports say, terrorised and harassed anyone they found wearing Zanu
PF campaign apparel in the above-mentioned residential areas, but
were reluctant to visit the claimed Zanu PF base less than a kilometre
from the Irvines complex.
The youths allegedly
assaulted KD, a vegetable vendor of no known political affiliation
at 7pm yesterday near Cheviot shops after he failed to furnish the
alleged assailants with information as to the whereabouts of the
purported Zanu PF terror gang they claimed was hiding in the area.
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