Amid all the bloodshed of Zimbabwe’s 2008 election, it was the murder of the 30-year-old Tonderai Ndira that caught the international media’s attention. He became a symbol for the country’s political struggles. Five years on, Zimbabwe is transformed, but the freedoms he fought for remain far off.

MWENEZI – His first name means ‘the will of God’ but Kudakwashe Basikiti, the ZANU PF MP for Mwenezi East, led and participated in vicious acts of political violence in Zimbabwe that left dozens dead and hundreds displaced in his constituency.

MASVINGO – A Facebook spat between youths belonging to two factions of the Zion Apostolic Faith Mission in Chivi over the use of the church’s shrine for the passover ended with the two seriously injured when both factions turned up and fought.

BULAWAYO – Zanu PF youths and members of the main wing fought raging battles which needed police intervention to quell at the party headquarters over leadership differences as intra-party violence threatens to tear the former ruling party.

HARARE – Police have arrested two more suspects in the Hurungwe violence case involving businessman Temba Mliswa. This brings to 10 the number of people arrested for being involved in the fracas that left Hurungwe West legislator Sarah Mahoka injured.

HEADLANDS – Thousands of mourners on Thursday joined Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC-T national leadership in paying their last respects to the late Christpowers Maisiri, the 12 year old boy who was burnt to death by Zanu PF thugs.

HARARE – Slain Christpower Maisiri was born in Radze Mountain in 2000 as his parents hid from marauding shock-troops loyal to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF.

According to Paul Freire “Oppression – overwhelming control – is necrophiliac; it is nourished by the love of death, not life”. Who ever killed young Christpower Maisiri is full of hate and loves death. RIP young Christpower Maisiri!!

Calls for peaceful elections by President Robert Mugabe have been exposed as insincere after thugs from his Zanu PF party set ablaze the home of an MDC-T aspiring parliamentary candidate killing his 12 year old son Christpower Maisiri.