Good morning Zimbabweans. Let me say people know their heroes and leaders no matter how much you can force them to think otherwise. Zimbabweans are not stupid.
➡️ “After stopping at the wrong house, they found the home of MDC activist Tonderai Ndira...
…the men dragged him from the house wearing only his underwear, beat him in front of his wife and three young children and threw him, bleeding, into the waiting pick-up.
Eight days later, his family found him in the mortuary at Parirenyatwa Hospital.
His jaw had been shattered. His knuckles were broken. He had been stabbed repeatedly, shot beneath the heart and struck so violently on the back of the head that his skull was smashed.” 🇿🇼
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In the early hours of 3 June 2008, ZANU-PF militia forced their way into the MDC office at Jerera Growth Point in Zaka, Masvingo.
Seven MDC activists were asleep after spending the day helping supporters escape political violence.
The militia ordered everyone onto the floor, then opened fire at close range, striking Washington Nyangwa and Chrison Mbano.
They poured petrol across the room and over the men lying inside before setting the office alight.
Flames tore through the small building as the activists fought desperately to escape. Some stumbled through the doorway with their clothes and bodies on fire.
Edson Ngwerume, Washington Nyangwa and Chrison Mbano never escaped the inferno.
ZANU-PF militia burned them alive.
They died for Zimbabwe.
On 1 June 2008, Tafadzwa Meda was driving his father's lorry through Nyamuyaruka Business Centre in Mudzi when a truck carrying ZANU-PF militia pulled in behind him, forcing him to flee.
As he tried to escape, one of the pursuers opened fire, sending a bullet into his leg.
Bleeding heavily, Meda drove until he could go no further, abandoned the lorry and crawled into nearby scrub, hoping those hunting him had lost his trail. Their search yielded nothing, so they set the vehicle ablaze. The flames lit the surrounding darkness and revealed where he lay.
Accusing him of transporting MDC supporters, the militia hauled him from his hiding place, bundled him into their truck and drove him to Broken Bridge on the Nyandire River.
There, one of them stepped forward and shot him at close range, after which they dumped his body beneath the bridge and drove away.
In Zimbabwe, exercising his democratic rights became a death sentence.
ZANU-PF murdered Tafadzwa Meda.
At about 4pm on 28 January 2002, 26-year-old MDC member Tichaona Katsamudanga walked out of Hatcliffe Clinic in northern Harare when a Mazda 323 pulled up beside him.
The men inside were ZANU-PF militia.
They bundled Katsamudanga into the vehicle and drove him to a ZANU-PF base in Hatcliffe, where they demanded to know where MDC meetings were being held and the identities of the party's local officials.
When he refused to give them the information they wanted, the torture began.
While the Mazda's engine revved, the attackers attached cables from the vehicle's battery to his inner thighs and beneath his fingernails, sending electric shocks through his body. They squeezed his diaphragm until he struggled to breathe before forcing him to swallow a herbal mixture and releasing him.
Doctors examined him the following day. They found him profoundly ill, more than ten per cent dehydrated, slightly disorientated and unable to straighten his legs because of severe spasms in his thigh muscles. He was rushed to a high-care unit suffering from a severe electrolyte imbalance caused by uncontrollable diarrhoea.
Katsamudanga fought for another week.
On 5 February 2002, he died at Avenues Clinic.
His family deserves justice.
Zimbabwe awaits justice.
ZANU-PF murdered Tichaona Katsamudanga.
On 5 May 2008, ZANU-PF youths, war veterans and "Green Bombers" from the Border Gezi National Youth Service camps moved from homestead to homestead across Chaona in Chiweshe, Mashonaland Central, forcing villagers to gather at Chaona Primary School as they hunted for the 80 people who had voted for the MDC in the 29 March 2008 elections.
Retired Major Cairo Mhandu, the newly elected ZANU-PF MP for Mazowe North, declared that Chaona would be punished and politically re-educated for rejecting ZANU-PF. Almost immediately, ZANU-PF youths seized villagers from the crowd and forced them to the ground.
Geoffrey Jemedze was among them. They beat him again and again with wooden poles and rifle butts before kicking and punching him as he lay defenceless. They battered him so brutally that he spent the next four days fighting for his life in Avenues Clinic, where his kidneys finally failed.
On 9 May 2008, he died.
The people of Chaona voted.
ZANU-PF answered with terror.
They murdered Geoffrey Jemedze.
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.
On 7 May 2008, at Juru Growth Point in Mashonaland East, twelve ZANU-PF militia ambushed four MDC members travelling by car, seizing Better Chokururama, Godfrey Kauzani and Ken Nyevhe while a fourth man escaped.
The three men were abducted and taken to an unknown location.
Four days later, Chokururama's body was found in a river near Chikwaka bearing gunshot and knife wounds.
Six days after that, villagers in the farming district of Goromonzi discovered the bodies of Kauzani and Nyevhe. Like Chokururama, they had been beaten, tortured and killed.
Their only "crime" was supporting Zimbabwe's democratic opposition.
Their families, and all Zimbabweans, still await justice.
ZANU-PF murdered Better Chokururama, Godfrey Kauzani and Ken Nyevhe.
In mid-April 2008, in Mudzi district, Mashonaland East, Denias Dombo heard the engine before he saw the flames.
By the time he reached his kraal, his brick-and-thatch home was already burning. Two men sped off in a ZANU-PF vehicle, youths in party T-shirts packed in the back.
Everything he owned — his beds, blankets, clothes, and furniture — was gone.
That night, Dombo walked 15 miles to Kotwa police station to report it. He gave his statement, then walked the 15 miles back.
The police arrived, took a cursory look at the burnt house, and left.
Twenty minutes after they drove off, the attack began.
Around 30 ZANU-PF youths flooded into the kraal, armed with iron bars, heavy sticks and stones. They smashed into the kitchen where his family had barricaded themselves and began stoning them inside.
Dombo made a decision.
He told his wife Patricia, carrying their four-month-old son, and his daughters: when he ran out, they must run and hide.
He stepped outside.
They swarmed him.
They beat him with iron bars and sticks, forcing him to shout, “Pamberi na Mugabe. Pamberi ne ZANU-PF. Pasi na Tsvangirai,” as they struck him again and again. He raised his arms to shield his head and felt the bones crack.
“My blood was rushing out everywhere.”
They left him only when the ringleader checked his watch and said they would return to finish him.
Dombo tried to stand.
He fell.
He tried again.
Then he looked down.
His leg was broken. The jagged bone was protruding through the skin. One arm hung shattered.
He was going nowhere.
Alone, bleeding beside the ashes of his home, certain they would return, he twisted a wire into a noose and tried to hang himself.
The wire snapped.
He hit the ground.
Then a small, terrified voice pierced the silence.
“Baba… Baba… simukai… please wake up.”
His nine-year-old daughter, shaking, kneeling beside him, had come back.
He opened his eyes.
He was still alive.
ZANU-PF turned Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections into torture, fire and attempted murder.
Denias Dombo deserves justice.
Zimbabweans deserve justice.
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.
On 11 March 1986, Lieutenant General Lookout Masuku was released from detention after more than four years in Robert Mugabe's prisons, but the freedom announced in the headlines had already been hollowed out by the state that held him until his body began to fail.
Four armed soldiers still guarded his room at Parirenyatwa Hospital, where one of ZIPRA's most senior commanders lay attached to two drips, his arms swollen from repeated attempts to find veins, his body weakened by years in Chikurubi and his mind carrying blank spaces from days of imprisonment he could no longer remember.
This was a man who had fought Ian Smith's Rhodesia and helped carry Zimbabwe towards independence, only to be imprisoned without trial by the government that independence produced.
The prison authorities claimed he had been examined by a specialist, yet the man was neither a specialist nor even a registered doctor, while Masuku understood exactly what had been done to him. He entered prison healthy, developed high blood pressure, then kidney disease and finally the illness that was killing him.
By early April, he had reached the only conclusion left.
They released me because they knew I was dying.
In his final days, one of his last requests was heartbreakingly simple. He wanted watermelon. Because there were none in Harare, Gift Masuku, Tshinga Dube, Joshua Nkomo and Zodwa Dabengwa searched across two cities for a single piece of fruit that might bring comfort to a dying liberation commander.
When it finally reached him, his face lit up.
When told it had come from Zodwa Dabengwa, he managed only one word.
Zodwa.
On 5 April 1986, Lookout Masuku died, and although the state denied him a hero's burial, Bulawayo gave him one anyway as tens of thousands gathered at Lady Stanley Cemetery to honour the man the government had tried to break.
Lookout Masuku survived Rhodesia, but he did not survive the Zimbabwe he helped liberate.
ZANU-PF destroyed him.
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