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Army Commander's wife assaults journalist
MISA-Zimbabwe
August 01, 2007

JOCELYN Chiwenga, the wife of Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Constantine Chiwenga on 1 August 2007 assaulted freelance photojournalist Tsvangirai Mukwazhi at Makro Wholesalers in Harare.

Mukwazhi confirmed to MISA-Zimbabwe that he had been slapped several times by the army general's wife following a visit to the retail outlet by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and other senior members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

Tsvangirai and several senior members of his party had just left the wholesaler when Chiwenga spotted and descended on the photojournalist. The MDC leader and his delegation had apparently visited the wholesaler to assess the impact of the government-sanctioned price slashes on commodities.

Chiwenga hurled all sorts of insults at Mukwazhi accusing him of advancing the agenda of Western imperialists. Other journalists who were covering the opposition leader's tour managed to sneak out of the wholesaler ahead of Mukwazhi when Chiwenga ordered its security guards to lock the doors so that she could deal with the 'sellouts'.

In 2003 Chiwenga assaulted Gugulethu Moyo the former Corporate Affairs Director of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) publishers of the banned Daily News and Daily News on Sunday at Glen View Police Station. Moyo had driven to the police station to secure the release of Daily News photographer Philemon Bulawayo who was being held at the police station when she encountered the army commander's fury.

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