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A first born, born of first borns:) *Sapiophile* Nonconformist~🤷🏽‍♀️

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Lest we forget.

[Tafi Mhaka @tafimhaka]

At about 6.30 pm on 29 May 2008, MDC Harare provincial elections director Tichanzii Gandanga was still working in his city centre office when four ZANU-PF militia burst through the door, pressed a pistol against him and forced him into a waiting vehicle.

They pulled a black bag over his head as the vehicle sped through the darkness, demanding to know where Morgan Tsvangirai was hiding, who was training MDC guerrillas and who was financing the opposition, punctuating every answer they disliked with blows from a pistol butt while a religious song blared through the speakers.

When the vehicle finally stopped, they stripped Gandanga naked, lashed him with lengths of tyre rubber, beat him with tree branches and kicked him until he could no longer stand.

Believing it was his only chance of survival, Gandanga let his body go limp and feigned unconsciousness.

Satisfied they had broken him, the attackers dragged him into the middle of the road and stepped aside as an engine roared into life.

The vehicle rolled over both his legs, reversed and crushed them again, then turned back for another pass.

Certain the next impact would kill him, Gandanga closed his eyes and waited for death.

The wheels tore across his shattered legs instead as the vehicle disappeared into the darkness.

Alone, naked and bleeding, he dragged himself from the road, snapped a branch from a nearby tree to use as a crutch and struggled back towards passing traffic, where three motorists drove past before a truck driver finally stopped and carried him to safety.

His only "crime" was helping organise Zimbabwe's democratic opposition.

The men who tried to kill Tichanzii Gandanga remain free, unpunished and dangerous.

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@tafimhaka @hbanhire 😪

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Lest we forget.

[Tafi Mhaka @tafimhaka]

On the morning of 4 June 2008, an uneasy silence settled over Katsukunya Secondary School near Mutoko in Mashonaland East. Headmaster Shepherd Chegwu was missing.

Armed ZANU-PF youths and war veterans had stormed his home the night before. Accusing the respected educator and Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe member of supporting the opposition MDC, they dragged him away at gunpoint as his terrified family looked on.

On 5 June, colleagues searching for their missing headmaster found his body dumped near Rutukanda Shops, a small rural trading centre outside Mutoko. He had been stripped naked, tortured and shot in the head and neck.

A family was shattered. Katsukunya Secondary School's headmaster lay dead. Zimbabwe lost a distinguished teacher.

ZANU-PF murdered Shepherd Chegwu to preserve its grip on power.

Zimbabwe must bring his killers to justice.

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@begottensun Triggered.

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Lest we forget.

[Tafi Mhaka @tafimhaka]

On the night of 16 June 2008, armed ZANU-PF militia attacked the home of newly elected Mayor of Harare Emmanuel Chiroto in Hatcliffe, a working-class suburb on Harare's northern outskirts, searching for the man who had just helped wrest control of Zimbabwe's largest city from Robert Mugabe's party.

When the militia failed to find Emmanuel, they petrol-bombed the family house, seized Abigail and four-year-old Ashley, and drove away with mother and child into the darkness.

Hours afterwards, Ashley was found alone outside Borrowdale Police Station, but his mother was nowhere to be found.

Two days later, Abigail's battered body was discovered on a farm in Borrowdale with multiple broken limbs, a deep wound to her abdomen and a gunshot wound to the head.

She was murdered during ZANU-PF's campaign of terror ahead of Zimbabwe's 27 June 2008 presidential run-off.

Ashley grew up without his mother.

ZANU-PF murdered Abigail Chiroto.

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As much as I am a staunch Brazilian supporter, I must say, Norway did not come play. That Harland is beast. Pure magic.
#worldcup

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@freemanchari @CMukungunugwa Freeman 🤦🏽‍♀️

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@advocatemahere @PatsonKanengoni The future of 🇿🇼 is female. 😍

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Lest we forget😪

[Tafi Mhaka @tafimhaka]

On 6 June 2008, in Mhondoro, a quiet farming district in Mashonaland West, three white pick-up trucks carrying ZANU-PF militia rolled into the homestead of MDC organiser Patson Chipiro, less than a kilometre from the home of Deputy Information Minister Bright Matonga.

The men came looking for Patson, but when they discovered he was away in Harare, they returned an hour later and took their revenge on his 45-year-old wife, a former nursery-school teacher, making her pay for a man they could not find.

The attackers beat her, hacked off her right hand and both her feet, dragged her into her house and hurled a petrol bomb inside, setting the building ablaze while she was still alive.

By the time Patson returned home, all three brick houses on the family property were burning.

His wife was dead.

At her funeral, relatives could not close the lid of her coffin because her charred arm, severed at the wrist, had become rigid. Villagers searching through the ashes found her missing hand and placed it beside her before she was buried.

ZANU-PF murdered Dadirai Chipiro.

The Chipiro family still awaits justice.

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[Tafi Mhaka @tafimhaka]

On the night of 6 June 2008, a truck carrying armed ZANU-PF militia pulled into a homestead on the eastern outskirts of Harare, searching for MDC councillor Brian Chimova, but when they failed to find him, they turned their violence against his family.

Inside the house was his pregnant wife, Pamela Pasvani, his six-year-old son, Nyasha Mashoko, his younger brother and his sixty-one-year-old mother, Juliet Mashoko, none of whom had committed any crime beyond belonging to the family of an opposition politician.

The militia beat Juliet so savagely with sticks and heavy logs that they fractured one of her legs before dragging Pamela, Nyasha and Brian's younger brother into a room, locking the door and hurling a petrol bomb inside, transforming the family home into an inferno from which there was almost no escape.

Juliet, lying helpless with her broken leg, could do nothing except listen as her daughter-in-law and grandson screamed from inside the burning house.

Six-year-old Nyasha died in the flames.

Pamela was pulled from the burning house with burns covering almost her entire body and rushed to Harare Hospital, where doctors fought to save her life, but the injuries were too severe and she died soon afterwards, taking her unborn child with her.

ZANU-PF militia unleashed a nationwide campaign of murder, torture and arson after the March 2008 elections, turning homes into killing grounds and entire families into targets in a determined effort to crush the opposition MDC.

ZANU-PF murdered Pamela Pasvani, her six-year-old son Nyasha Mashoko and her unborn child to stay in power.

Zimbabwe must bring Pamela Pasvani's killers to justice.

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@Yvonne_Maphosa @molokele 👏🏽👏🏽🦋

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@DHLAfrica @KundaiChiyanika Please inbox them. They are helpful.

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@realnorma_kay UJonas

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@PhillipSibanda8 Hanzi ma🇿🇼 muno “hakira se WiFi.”

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@DrLimukaniMathe “Irrelevant with 1.4million followers”- make it make sense🤔

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@advocatemahere Chinhu che South America ichi.

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@advocatemahere @JaYMuchy1 @ZANUPF_Official Kuti vapedzise kuuraya nyika.

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@Malatjie_ @advocatemahere But God. The earth is the Lord’s and its fullness thereof-Psalm 24v1

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@MissyKatonha @advocatemahere 🤦🏽‍♀️