following a dispute emanating from the Biometric Voter
Assembly, Anna Mutara. Windows, asbestos, household
Registration (BVR) exercise. On 17 October Mhaka and
furniture and doors were destroyed during the attacks. Kaliyati
Chimusoro assaulted Midzi for distributing blank affidavit
sustained serious injuries and was admitted at Chitungwiza
forms in Zengeza 4. They accused him of promoting
hospital. Smart Chitsa and Ellen Magunje also sustained
efficiency in urban registration centres and warned him to
injuries. Machakaride sought refuge at another house and said
desist from such behaviour. The case was not reported to the
that her landlord pleaded with her to leave following
police but the victim sustained minor injuries.
continuous threats from Zanu PF activists. The same assailants
have threatened to attack Harare Senator Anna Chimanikire
It is alleged that about 10 Zanu PF youths led by Joseph
for accommodating MDC-T activists from Chitungwiza Unit
Changara have been forcing vendors in Mbare to to register to
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vote under the (BVR) Biometric Voter Registration as Mbare
residents to secure their workplaces ahead of the 2018
elections. On 18 October Changara and his colleagues toured
around Magaba , Shawasha flats and Mupedzanhamo flea
markets strictly advising vendors to register to vote in Mbare
to evade eviction from their vending areas. Most of them
reside in areas outside Mbare such as Glenorah and Highfields
but have been instructed to register at Remembrance district
offices to secure their business interests in the area.
It is alleged that about 20 Zanu PF youths led by Peter Anusa,
Tinashe Chitsere, Charles Sixpence and
Alois Sasko
assaulted four MDC-T activists in Chitungwiza Unity N for
conducting a door to door campaign issuing residents with
Property damaged during the attacks
affidavit forms for Biometric Voter Registration (BVR). The
assailants were in search of Getrude Machakaride , Simon
John, Amos Kaliyati, Smart Chitsa , Ellen Magunje and Fiansa
It is alleged that on 23 October Zanu PF Glenview ward
Zawala when they identified MDC-T activists mobilizing
political commissar Mikazhu Maxen addressed residents in
residents for BVR on 22 October. Following the exercise they
Glenview South ward 32 forcing them to go for BVR
began hunting down MDC-T activists in the ward. At 1600hrs
(Biometric Voter Registration) as cells to identify those who
the group arrived at Kaliyati’s home and destroyed property
will vote in favor of opposition in 2018. Maxen labeled those
before assaulting him with knobkerries. The group also
who would defy her orders traitors and would face the full
attacked two houses suspected to be accommodating MDC-T
wrath of Zanu PF in 2018.
activists in ward 23 before destroying property at MDC-T
mobilized in ward 32 and ferried to Budiriro community hall
Chitungwiza Deputy Organizing Secretary of the Women’s
for registration. Most of them registered in fear for their lives.
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Residents were forcefully