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MDC activists in Mazowe flee their homes
Movement
for Democratic Change
June 01,
2010
Four MDC activists from
Nyadzonya ward, Chaona village, Mazowe Central, Mashonaland Central
province, have fled their homes after being threatened with death
by the Zanu PF militia. The four, Gloria Muza, Spiren and Patrick
Mapondera and Prisca Dangiwa have been in hiding since April after
they were forced to flee their homes by armed Zanu PF militia.
Muza is in hiding with
her four-year old daughter. The four had served Isidore Gwanzura
the Zanu PF Chaona district chairperson and a self-styled war veteran
with summons for him to appear in court for assaulting them and
looting their properties in 2008. After serving him with the summons,
Gwanzura armed himself with a gun and grouped Zanu PF youth militia
who then visited the MDC activists at their homes and threatened
them with death.
The MDC activists made
a report at Chaona police base but the police officers they said
they could not take up the case as they also feared for their lives.
In 2008, 16 MDC activists were brutally slain by State and Zanu
PF thugs in the same Chaona area in a callous mass murder. The South
African generals deployed by former SADC facilitator Thabo Mbeki,
who are yet to make their report public, wept when they visited
the scene after the bloody event.
Also in Mashonaland Central
province, 10 MDC members appeared at the Bindura magistrate's
court for a continuation of their trial. The 10 are facing trumped-up
arson charges. The allegations are that they set on fire the house
of one Lewis Chikuwa in Mazowe South. The trial was postponed to
17 June. While MDC activists continue to face flimsy charges, there
is no action yet on known Zanu PF vigilantes and State security
agents who murdered and maimed thousands of our activists in the
run-up to the bloody Presidential sham of 27 June 2008.
Meanwhile, the MDC's
Midlands South provincial leadership has dismissed media reports
that they had defected from the people's party to join the
fickle MDC99. Media reports last week falsely claimed that several
provincial leaders in Midlands South had defected the MDC in order
to join the Zanu PF-sponsored MDC99. However, these reports are
malicious and baseless.
The MDC Midlands South
provincial treasurer, Lillian Timvos and her husband Michael Costas
Timvos who were cited as some of the officials who had defected
to MDC99 categorically denied these false allegations. Lillian Timvos
said the allegations were attempts by Zanu PF to cause divisions
in the province and in the MDC. "There is no way that my husband
and I can defect from the MDC. We joined this party at its inception
in 1999 and since then our loyalty to the party has been unwavering,"
she said.
Other senior MDC provincial
members including Robson Mugwagwa also dismissed the media allegations
as an attempt by sow confusion in the province. "The MDC99
is clearly a Zanu PF project and we can never be associated with
such a rogue outfit," Mugwagwa said.
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