Zanu-PF demo forces transfer of college principal

The foiled demonstration by Zanu-PF activists at Belvedere Technical Teachers' College on Thursday has come with heavy a cost for the college's acting principal Patrick Chinhoro, who has been transferred from the tertiary institution with immediate effect.

On Thursday, anti-riot police blocked a demonstration by Zanu-PF Harare Central One District activists who were calling for the ouster of Permanent Secretary for Higher ad Tertiary Education, Washington Mbizvo, accusing him of ruining tertiary education in the country.

The activists, who included the Zanu-PF-affiliated Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union, also said they were irked by the "political victimisation" of Chinhoro by Mbizvo for having unearthed corrupt activities involving huge sums of dollars by his lieutenants.

Yesterday, two Higher Education ministry officials in the company of anti-riot police swooped at the college in the early morning and to deliver the reassignment letter.