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ZINASU Treasurer General dumped at Lake Kyle
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) (Chinyere)
April 06, 2010

The ZINASU Treasurer General, Zivanai Muzorodzi who was abducted in Masvingo on the 1st of April 2010 by suspected state agents was later dumped at Lake Kyle, 20 kilometres from Masvingo town. The abduction came after he led a demonstration by students in the province on the 29th of March 2010.

State agents in civilian clothing arrived at his house at around 7pm and asked if he could accompany them as they had a couple of questions they wanted to ask him. Cde Muzorodzi refused and one of the agents physically forced him from the house into a car which had no number plates.

While driving into town, one of the abductors interrogated Muzorodzi on the reasons why the students were mixing student issues with national politics. He was also asked about the whereabouts of Aleck Tabe, the ZINASU Secretary for Legal Affairs who was also part of the organisers of the demonstration. The ZINASU Treasurer did not divulge any information to them and that is when they started beating him all over his body with a wooden sticks and baton sticks for close to 2 hours.

They drove and dumped him at Lake Kyle and left him for dead. Before they left, they warned him from interfering with national politics and threatened him with death if ever they hear that he organises again programmes that castigate ZANU Pf. He was later rescued by two men who had come for fishing at the lake.

ZINASU strongly castigates the increase in the number of cases of student victimizations by state apparatus. They are intimidating, harassing and assaulting dissenting voices in colleges with the aim of silencing them. ZINASU is complying data on all the cases of student victimization since the beginning of the year and will present it to the Prime Minister, Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai at a meeting to be scheduled with him this week.

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