SW Radio Africa news - The Independent Voice of Zimbabwe
Known MDC-T supporters from Mahere resettlement scheme in Nyazura are facing threats of eviction and have been given until Friday to leave the area. A group of ZANU PF supporters, travelling in pick-up trucks, visited the resettlement scheme on Thursday and started demarcating the plots for their own use. Alexander Zakaria, a villager in the area, told SW Radio Africa that the ZANU PF supporters are well known in the district and that any attempts to report them to the police will be futile. ‘About 15 people came in three vehicles and told me that if I refuse to vacate my plot they will see to it that my son will disappear from this earth.‘The chilling message was so frightening that I went to Nyazura police to report the threat. But as usual I was told to bring evidence. What evidence do they want from a verbal threat, at times its pointless to go to the police as they are equally scared of the same ZANU PF people,’ Zakaria said. Zakaria however said he will only vacate from his plot ‘in a coffin’, as he was going to stay put. He said the whole district was now sick and tired living under threats from ZANU PF, as if they solely own Zimbabwe.‘In 2008, the same people came harassing us and stole our livestock. Now they want to do the same but our message this time is that we will protect what belongs to us at any cost,’ he added.