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Strikes and Protests 2007- Save Zimbabwe Campaign
Strikes and Protests 2007/8 - Students
Student
leaders arrested at magistrate court
Students Solidarity Trust
March 13, 2007
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Riot Police have arrested 5 student leaders at the magistrates courts
for singing in solidarity with the battered leaders this afternoon.
They include Promise Mkwananzi, ZINASU
President and Washington Katema the coordinator of the students
body.
A sombre atmosphere
engulfed the Harare Magistrates this afternoon as leaders of the
Save Zimbabwe Campaign were being arraigned before the courts.
Morgan Tsvangirai,
the President of the Movement for Democratic showed signs of being
brutally beaten, with a swollen face and gushes in the head - his
clothes were bloody. Lovemore Madhuku, the NCA
chairperson had a plaster and and spotted torn and bloody clothes.
The other leaders,
notably Grace Kwinjeh, Elton Mangoma and Sekai Holland had to be
ferried by ambulance as they could hardly stand.
As Tsvangirai,
Madhuku walked out of the court, it dawned on everyone that Mugabe
and his Zanu PF regime are a rogue kleptocracy, devoid of any aesthetic
appreciation. Immediately, all the people broke into an athem, in
solidarity with the leader, badly bruised - they sang Ishe Komborera
Africa. It
was at this point that riot police dispersed the crowd, and in the
process, arrested Promise Mkwananzi, ZINASU President, Washington
Katema, ZINASU Coordinator, Tellington Kwashira, a student activist,
Emily Mukungwa an Intern at the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition and
Rodrick Chiroodza, a driver with the Crisis
Coalition as well as Chiedza, a student activist.
They are still
in police custody.
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Solidarity Trust fact
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