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Student
leader abducted and assaulted, others barred from exams
Lance Guma, SW Radio Africa
December 11, 2006
http://www.swradioafrica.com/news111206/studentleader111206.htm
The Students
Representative Council President at the Bulawayo Polytechnic, Blessing
Vava, says he was abducted by state security agents in Bulawayo
on Saturday. Writing in an e-mail sent out to various news agencies,
Vava said four men bundled him into a Jeep vehicle and drove along
the Gwanda road. The men allegedly interrogated him inside the vehicle
while accusing him of being on the payroll of opposition leader
Morgan Tsvangirai.
Vava alleges
they warned him he risked dying like former student leader and MDC
spokesman Learnmore Jongwe, whose death in prison sparked intense
speculation. ‘They took turns assaulting me indiscriminately telling
me that I should resign as a student leader and
accusing me of being used by Tony Blair,’ Vava wrote. He says what
sparked the whole episode was a beer drink at Killarney bar where
in the company of Clever Bere, another student leader, he remarked
that Mugabe had killed the country. Bere is said to have joined
in saying, ‘as students we will make the country ungovernable if
Mugabe dares to hang on to power.’
This apparently
is what led to the four men trailing Vava soon after he left the
bar. Meanwhile Promise Mkwananzi the President of the Zimbabwe
National Students Union (ZINASU) says he was thrown out of an
examination room at the University of Zimbabwe by authorities there.
The removals
also affected several other student leaders like Tinei Mukweva and
Zwelithini Viki. In Masvingo ZINASU Vice President Gideon Chitanga
and his colleagues were also thrown out of examination rooms. University
authorities say they no longer recognise them as students following
suspension and expulsion letters issued a few months ago. This is
despite court orders overturning these.
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