Zimbabwe opposition parties unite for anti-Mugabe protest

Efforts to get a comment from Zimbabwe’s Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo were fruitless as he was not answering his mobile phone.

MDC secretary general Douglas Mwonzora said a High Court judge will hear the case at 8 a.m. on Friday, hours before the planned march.

“We will not tolerate any illegal demonstration”.

“We have a moral duty to protect citizens of this country and people that do business so that they are not disrupted by malcontents”.

Military sources told the Zimbabwe Independent yesterday that the army will be on high alert and could patrol the streets today following Wednesday’s riots which resulted in a police auto and a Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation truck being set ablaze. Shops closed early and drew down their shutters while a bus stop and a popular market were burned to the ground.

He said Nera was not accountable for the chaos that happened as it had occurred outside of their routes after the police indiscriminately started beating up people. “I am glad that Zimbabweans now refuse to be cowed”, Tsvangirai said.

As the youth, be ready to deal with them when they call for protests, next time they call for any demonstration we will also be in the streets to help the police to arrest them.

“The above subject matter is pertinent”.

The vowed to hold another demonstration next Friday after police crashed their sanctioned demonstration to demand a level electoral playing field.

“The crowd can not be accommodated in the CBD as it interrupts the smooth flow of both human and vehicular traffic”.

Zimbabwe has seen a mounting tide of violent protests over the past weeks, with demonstrators calling on Mugabe to step down.

26 de agosto de 2016, 15:13Harare, Aug 26 (Prensa Latina) The situation still remains tense in the capital, which was the scene today of anti-government protests organized by at least 18 political parties and social groups in Zimbabwe. Witnesses said people seeking refuge at the Harare Magistrates’ Court were teargassed.

Dozens of officers in the capital Harare blocked off the site of an opposition rally dubbed the “mega demonstration” which was demanding electoral reforms. In the town of Masvingo, a concerned resident said that they “can no longer walk freely in the streets because Police are everywhere”.

The police had to facilitate peace while the demonstration took place.

“It isn’t necessarily a tipping point, because it remains to be seen how the pushback from the government is going to affect the protest movement”, she said.

On her part, Mujuru said she had received reports that more than 50 people had been injured during the attacks on the populace by the police.