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Student leader dumped in Nyamandhlovu
Students Solidarity Trust
January 31, 2008

Police in Bulawayo yesterday arrested Themba Maphenduka, the newly elected Treasurer General of the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU), and later dumped in Nyamandlovu, about 30 kilometers outside Zimbabwe's second largest city of Bulawayo. His latest altercation with the law enforcement agents comes barely two months after he was brutally assaulted in Bulawayo at the railway station by soldiers.

Maphenduka was upended by the police after addressing a general meeting at Bulawayo Polytechnic, the meeting was convened to discuss the poor education delivery system, poor food quality at at the institution and the lack of teaching staff at the College. The college has since turned to unqualified personnel in an effort to fill the gap left by qualified teachers who are fleeing the country en'masse.

After addressing the students, he was waylaid by four plain clothes security agents who took him to Bulawayo Central police station where they immediately switched cars and drove him to Nyamandlovu, to an isolated police base in the area. He was interrogated, being asked about the congress resolutions of the Zimbabwe National Students Union, their action plan and was forced to reveal the names of fellow members of the National Executive Council of ZINASU.

The police left him stranded in Nyamandlovu, and he had to walk for at least an hour before accessing the main Harare-Victorial Falls road at around 2 am. There were no reports of assaults.

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