Woman storms newspaper, urinates on floor
A Zanu PF supporting woman stormed the offices of the Daily News newspaper in Harare on Friday to scold journalists over reports that an ailing Mugabe was on his ‘deathbed’ in Singapore. As security guards dragged the woman outside, she decided to urinate in the reception area.
According to a facebook post by Daily News journalist Margaret Chinowaita the woman “dribbled past security” after claiming to have a sensitive story to give to reporters. “She bypassed the interview room and strutted into the newsroom. She raised her voice;
“Macomrades nhasi ndiri kuda kukumamisai, majaira kunyora zvekushora va… iwe wakapfeka kabhachi kakacheneruka apa uchitengesa nyika, nhasi mamama (Cdes, I’m going to deal with you today! You have been writing a lot of nonsense for too long … especially you wearing that weather-beaten old jacket despite betraying your country to its enemies).”
“Everyone went quiet and she went on threatening to bomb the place. Security came and she was ushered out. But she could not go out without drama, she somehow managed to outfox the hefty security guard and remove her jeans.
“She then lowered her knickers and relieved herself at the reception area. Everyone was shocked. It’s a weird, weird world,” Chinowaita wrote.
According to the paper’s News Editor Guthrie Munyuki the woman between 27 and 30 years knew what she was doing, He said “she was shouting stuff like ‘show us the president’s coffin’. She also claimed to have back-up, we were not sure whether she was armed or had something up her sleeve.”
“For a while, we just watched her in silence. The whole incident was captured on CCTV. We will hand over the footage to the police.” Suggesting that the incident was pr-planned, a car waiting outside drove the woman away. Munyuki insisted the incident would not intimidate their journalists.
In 2010 the Daily News was re-licenced after Mugabe’s regime shut it down in 2003. The paper was bombed twice, first in 2000 and then 2001. A powerful bomb exploded at an art gallery on the ground floor of the newspaper’s offices in the city centre before a second bomb caused extensive damage to the Z$100 million printing press, in a building on the outskirts of Harare.
