as they suspected him to be a member of MDC-T. Sungu managed to
somehow sneak out of the meeting without any further incident.
John Muzi (not real name), a suspected MDC-T supporter, was allegedly
harassed by war veterans from Amajuba Farm and Mardavale Farm in
Guruve North. He was told to go back to Zanu-PF or risk losing all items
he had ever benefitted through the ruling party when he was a member.
On 11 October 2015, there was heavy fighting amongst Zanu-PF
supporters in Ward 27 Forrester Farm in Mvurwi, Mazowe North. It was
during Zanu-PF district elections which had been postponed for the
fourth time because of violence. The Zanu-PF provincial chairperson,
Dickson Mafiosi, had visited ward 27 to restore order but this did not stop
the supporters of rival candidates to fight. The two groups started by
exchanging vulgar words and ended up exchanging blows. Meanwhile,
white farmers are said to be bearing the costs of the elections as they
are made to provide their workers with transport to and from the
elections. Their workers have to attend the elections or else the farmers
will be victimised. They lose money in transport costs and their workers
spend production hours attending the elections. Zanu-PF youths threaten
to use violence on the people that do not attend the party meetings.
Efforts by ZPP to reach Mafiosi for comment were in vain as his cell
phone kept being answered. However, Commercial Farmers Union
director, Henry Olivier, told ZPP that even though no farmers had
officially made reports to that effect to CFU, he was inclined to believe
that farmers were being made provide transport. “I would not be
surprised that farmers are being made to provide transport,” Olivier said.
The First Lady Grace Mugabe held a rally at Chimhanda Township in
Rushinga. She handed out tractors and a truckload of goods that included
clothing, maize, rice, sugar and shoes. The people pushed towards the
truck to receive the goods as they were distributed. There was a
stampede, which led the military police to beat up people and set dogs
on them. A number of people were injured because of the stampede and
beating by the police.
Frank Guy Dollar, a commercial white farmer in Centenary, brought a
letter from the land office to reclaim his farm that had been taken by
two war veterans identified as Mukoka and Joseph Seremwi on 28
October 2015. On 30 October the two organised Zanu-PF youths to go and
forcibly evict Dollar from the farm. The youths were warned against the
move by Constable Kanyuchi who indicated, that if they were not happy
with the reclaim of Tzoro Farm by Dollar, they should go to the land
office. At the time of going to print ZPP was unable to confirm
developments on this case with the police and with Dollar. However, CFU
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