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.
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.
COZWVA let's make this video of Theophilus Kadangwe popular , until it reaches where it should go.
Lets have the suffering masses of people at heart.
Lets put the people first
@nelsonchamisa@NicolaWatson13 Nhai Nero, since 2018! Giving people false hope! CAB 3 is almost passed into law , u were busy criticising & demoralizing people who were mobilizing for constitutional defence ! Nhasi waku mocker fut! It seems Chief Charumbira spoke the truth abt your Karanga deal
It Is All Down to You
I am convinced, beyond any doubt, that Zimbabweans love their country with remarkable intensity. There may be little in the present circumstances to admire, yet many continue to defend it with a passion that is both profound and persistent. In all this, however, it seems to me that my people still fail to appreciate one essential truth: ultimately, it is all down to them.
We often become engrossed in disputes over who did what wrong, who failed the masses, who betrayed whom, and who sold out, all in the name of love for country. Yet in doing so, we lose sight of a more important reality: we ourselves are the change this country so desperately yearns for. There’s no knight in shining armor thats coming to save us; no politician to call for and lead in any action and certainly no strategist to deal with a militarized and corrupt regime.
With CAB 3, we have reached a critical juncture at which we must all acknowledge that this nation requires our active participation more than it requires the men or institutions we are so quick to blame. The blame game has long exhausted its value. What remains urgent and relevant is the fundamental question: What can I do for my country?
I hope that by asking this question, we may come to understand that the responsibility for change now rests with each of us as individuals. Makunyiwe!
@nelsonchamisa You are coming late to the party Nelson! When the nation needed you to add your voice & urge your 2 million supporters to flood the consultation process, u were very quiet !
ARREST Jacinta, Phakelumthakathi Ndabandaba & Ngizwe Mchunu for inciting violence, There are 11 official languages in South Africa, and Tsonga is one of them. Zulu is not superior to Tsonga.
@NgarivhumeJ The truth has to be said! Some in the opposition were persecuted based on her lies ! May her soul rest in peace ! But she was a damn sellout!