Chingini told Studio 7 that his three-bedroomed house was razed to the ground and property worth $9,000 was burnt to ashes.
Local residents expressed dismay over the deployment of the police saying President Robert Mugabe’s government is attempting to silence dissenting voices.
The council has teamed up with local residents in an attempt to thwart Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere and his party’s moves to allegedly grab land
"We are not going to stop doing our work although the security agents are interfering with our work. We will continue to advocate for a just country and fight for our rights as residents, despite their heavy presence.”
The Masvingo family is ready for the march to demand the missing $15 billion in diamond proceeds, to express our dismay over the proposed introduction of bond notes and the import ban on some basic commodities.
Over 400 cases of human rights violations were recorded in the first quarter of this year compared to 32 during the same period last year.
They say some parents end up having difficulties in enrolling their children at school due to lack of proper birth records.
The Zanu PF activists said Nhando and his colleagues, who attended the meeting, should leave the province or face public punishment.
Business owners and local residents say this is an attempt to foil protests organized by arrested Pastor Evan Mawarire of #ThisFlag movement.
Zhou said unlike last week when teachers affiliated to his organization were part of the protest, they won’t participate in the mass stay away this week.
Chief executive Michael Gowaseb of Namibia’s Economic and Social Justice Trust said government has to respect its citizens.
“The government has failed to deliver since the last elections and we are now sliding back to 2008 political and economic chaos..."
"When Joshua Nkomo was talking about land he was not just talking about land but the natural resources in the land and equitable distribution but this was not done."
But the organizers of the protest say they are going ahead with the public march, a move that is set to pit the police with agitated local people.
They told a committee overseeing the parliamentary outreach program gathering people’s views on the Bill that the proposed piece of legislation gives the Minister of Local Government too much power in running local authorities.
The government has indicated that it would allocate 4,000 hectares of land at Triangle and Hippo Valley Estates in Chiredzi district to landless peasants and traditional leaders.
“It’s really a positive development to have a permanent judge and High Court here. It is quite a good move because we need to decentralise things so that people do not have to depend on Harare and Bulawayo."
“Some ruling party youth have been moving around and came to us, forcing us to donate money to them so that they can go to Harare to stage their march
Some Zimbabweans said there had nothing to do with Simbanashe as they are struggling to make ends meet due to the current economic crisis in the country.
“Cassava is alien to us and we don’t even know how to prepare or cook it. We though that he was going to bring us the usual maize but he shocked us ..."
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