Police disrupt women's civic education programmes

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) this past weekend  experienced police disruptions to their organized civic education programmes for women held in Gwanda.The event was facilitated by G. Marembo and E. Mutemeri.
 
The facilitators had already covered the greater part of the morning topics when the police arrived and demanded to be allowed to attend the workshop. The ZCTU officials explained the purpose of the training and told the police that they could not allow them to attend as it was not a requirement at law.

The police then took the two facilitators to the station where they were interrogated. The ZCTU officers maintained their position but the police went on to ban the workshop. When the facilitators went back to the venue, the owners of the hotel could not allow them to proceed since the police had already threatened the hotel management. The workshop was therefore abandoned midway.
 
In Beitbridge a police officer claiming to be from the President's Office similarly wanted to attend a training session but after explanations from the ZCTU officials that they would not allow him in, he left and no further disturbances were experienced.