By Lance Guma
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HARARE – A man from Chinamhora was released on US$50 bail on Wednesday after he was arrested Saturday and kept in custody for three days for alleging that President Robert Mugabe had killed many people during his tenure in office.
It’s alleged that Noah Maphosa, asked Sekai Mandunda, a youth officer with the ministry of Youth, Gender and Employment Creation why she was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with Mugabe’s face and an indigenisation message on it.
Maphosa is alleged to have said “chii chawakapfeka ichocho, unopfeka hembe ine chimudhara chakaurayisa vanhu vakawanda, chii chinonzi indigenisation unofunga kuti munoiita muri vaviri?”
“What are you wearing, you wearing clothes with the face of an old man who got many people killed. What is indigenisation? Do you think you will do it with Mugabe, the two of you?” It was then that Maphosa was arrested by a Constable Chagwedera and a man called Thomas Sigauke.
In the eighties President Mugabe’s crack army unit, the notorious Fifth Brigade, rampaged through the Matabeleland and Midlands provinces butchering an estimated 20 000 perceived opposition supporters under the pretext that they were supporting armed dissidents loyal to ZAPU.
After losing presidential elections in March 2008, Mugabe unleashed “Operation Mavhotera Papi- Where did you vote?” in which over 500 opposition supporters perceived to have voted for the victor Morgan Tsvangirai, were ruthlessly killed. Nehanda Radio
