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Zanu-PF activist assaulted after Grace Mugabe's rally
13 Oct 2014 at 07:18hrs | Views
Calls by First Lady Grace Mugabe for unity and peace to prevail within Zanu-PF ahead of the December congress seem to have fallen on deaf ears after a party activist Cephas Mashayamombe, brother to Harare Provincial Political Commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe, was at the weekend assaulted and had his car smashed by six men.
Although police were not available to comment, a local daily said it is reliably informed that the matter was reported at Machipisa Police Station and was recorded under RRB 2182102 with the case number being CR130/10/14.
The attack came after the First Lady, during a rally held recently in the capital said she had forgiven Shadreck who reportedly approached Mashonaland West politician Patrick Zhuwao and asked him to look for a political home for her (First Lady) in his province as there was no place in Harare.
This was after the First Lady had officially joined politics following her nomination to lead the party's women's league.
Cephas told The Zimbabwe Mail he was assaulted for being Shadreck's brother, amid allegations that the two belonged to a wrong faction.
"It happened in Highfield when six men started beating me up saying the reason for the assault is that I am a brother to Shadreck who wanted to chase away the First Lady from Harare province.
"I escaped and locked myself in the car but they followed and smashed the windscreen. I managed to escape and went to file a report at Machipisa Police Station.
Provincial political commissar, Shadreck, could neither confirm nor deny his brother's assault and referred all question to Cephas.
Meanwhile Zanu-PF Tafara-Mabvuku District chairperson Fanuel Mutasa allegedly received death threat messages from some youth.
Mutasa reported the matter at Harare Central Police Station and was recorded under RRB IR100695.
Zanu-PF party is reportedly divided along factional lines, one purportedly led by Vice-President Joice Mujuru and Justice minister Emmerson Munangagwa reportedly leading another. The two have, however, denied leading any factions.
On Friday, the First Lady ‘came face to face' with factionalism as youths divided on factional lines clashed prior to her rally in Mutare.
"I have said factionalism should stop but it seems no one is listening to me," she said during her address at the rally.
Although police were not available to comment, a local daily said it is reliably informed that the matter was reported at Machipisa Police Station and was recorded under RRB 2182102 with the case number being CR130/10/14.
The attack came after the First Lady, during a rally held recently in the capital said she had forgiven Shadreck who reportedly approached Mashonaland West politician Patrick Zhuwao and asked him to look for a political home for her (First Lady) in his province as there was no place in Harare.
This was after the First Lady had officially joined politics following her nomination to lead the party's women's league.
Cephas told The Zimbabwe Mail he was assaulted for being Shadreck's brother, amid allegations that the two belonged to a wrong faction.
"It happened in Highfield when six men started beating me up saying the reason for the assault is that I am a brother to Shadreck who wanted to chase away the First Lady from Harare province.
Provincial political commissar, Shadreck, could neither confirm nor deny his brother's assault and referred all question to Cephas.
Meanwhile Zanu-PF Tafara-Mabvuku District chairperson Fanuel Mutasa allegedly received death threat messages from some youth.
Mutasa reported the matter at Harare Central Police Station and was recorded under RRB IR100695.
Zanu-PF party is reportedly divided along factional lines, one purportedly led by Vice-President Joice Mujuru and Justice minister Emmerson Munangagwa reportedly leading another. The two have, however, denied leading any factions.
On Friday, the First Lady ‘came face to face' with factionalism as youths divided on factional lines clashed prior to her rally in Mutare.
"I have said factionalism should stop but it seems no one is listening to me," she said during her address at the rally.
Source - Zim Mail
