Zanu PF rank marshals plot comeback

Zanu PF youths have launched a fresh campaign to grab all commuter omnibus ranks in Harare and other major cities "to restore sanity in the city centres", although there are fears the proposal is part of a wider plot by ruling party militias to use the sites as terror bases and cash cows ahead of the 2018 elections.

The youths' national political commissar, Innocent Hamandishe, made the appeal to President Robert Mugabe at a party conference in Harare on Saturday.  

He said control of all city bus terminuses would enable party youths to curb chaos and halt the current wave of anti-government demonstrations by opposition activists in the MDC-T-controlled urban centres.