By Violet Gonda
Two MDC officials, Chris Dhlamini, Ghandi Mudzingwa, plus photo journalist Shadreck Manyere, remain in police custody on banditry charges and the MDC says at least seven activists are still missing.
They were all abducted between October and December last year, together with scores of other civic and political activists. Many of them, including Jestina Mukoko the Director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, have been released on bail, but Dhlamini and Mudzingwa are being ‘held’ at the Avenues Clinic, while Manyere is at the notorious Chikurubi Maximum Security prison, a place where prisoners are suffering appalling conditions and dying from hunger and disease.
The MDC says the whereabouts of Gwenzi Kahiya ,Ephraim Mabeka, Lovemore Machokoto, Charles Muza, Edmore Vangirayi, Graham Matehwa and Peter Munyanyi are still unknown.
On Monday MDC official Eddie Cross released the name of another MDC activist, Dumisani Hapazani, who disappeared in June last year. Cross said: “His abductors were driving new Mazda twin cabs and we subsequently found that he was first moved to 4 Brigade and then to Goromonzi. No further news of his whereabouts has been received.”
The MDC official said Hapazani’s crime was that he signed the nomination form of an MDC candidate for the local government elections in March 2008. “He was questioned by CIO before his abduction about this, at the time he was the Manager of ZESA in the Chiredzi area. He leaves a widow and two children, both girls.”
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