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ZINASU condemns opposition harassment
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
February 11, 2008

Marvellous Kumalo, Parliamentary candidate for St Marys; Chitungwiza, a former ZINASU Sports secretary and currently ZINASU advocacy officer was yesterday, 10 February 2008 arrested under unclear circumstances after launching his campaign for the March 29 National elections in St Marys. The arrest follows the continual harassments and persecutions of those aligned to the opposition parties in Zimbabwe ahead of the forthcoming elections. It is sad to note that Zanu Pf crooks want to suppress the injection of new blood into National politics through unnecessary arrests and beatings. It is through this new blood that Zimbabweans as a whole are waiting for a Savior to deliver them from poverty and the whims and caprices of patronage.

Kumalo's candidature comes at a time when the ZINASU congress resolved that the union would support parliamentary candidates who have a student background. ZINASU is in full support of the injection of young blood into direct governance politics as this serves to bring new ideas to the government of today which seems to have run out of ideas to salvage the economy which has been hijacked by vampire elites of ZANU-PF. This action comes as a clear indication of the systematic victimization of those who are perceived to be against the status quo and it goes to show that the SADC talks are a flawed process and there is no possibility of having free and fair elections.

The vibrant former student leader was briefly detained at St Mary's police station were he was subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment before being transferred to an unknown police station up to now his whereabouts are still unknown.

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