Mugabe would have found his voice back if his choice candidate and opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa had won the tightly contested election
Chamisa’s defeat means further defeat of Robert Mugabe
The dust seems to be settling after the Monday election Zimbabwe which produced Emmerson Mnangagwa as elected president after the long rule of Robert Mugabe.
Mugabe would have found his voice back if his choice candidate and opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa had won the tightly contested election. But Chamisa lost to Mugabe’s former party, ZANU-PF.
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Opposition supporters who were arrested on Monday by the police in connection with bloody protest last Wednesday has been released on bail this morning after the police extracted certain information from them.
The nine senior officers of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance were alleged to have incited their supporters to stage an illegal demonstration last Wednesday, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports.
The MDC Alliance has rejected President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory in the poll as a sham. The electoral commission says there was “absolutely no skulduggery”.
Six people died after the security forces and opposition supporters clashed in the capital, Harare, on Wednesday.
Among the MDC Alliance officials police are searching for are Tendai Biti, Morgan Komichi and Happymore Chidziva, the Herald reports.
Campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the security forces and unidentified gunmen have carried out a series night-time raids at the home of opposition supporters.
Th BBC said masked men stormed the home of Mr Chidziva, the MDC Alliance youth leader, at 02:00 (00:00GMT) on Sunday, it added.
“A woman in the house told Human Rights Watch that when she screamed for help, one of the men pointed a rifle at her head and told her to be quiet or risk death. One of the men slapped and kicked her.
“The attackers also beat up members of three other families in the house, then abducted two of the men. The masked men put the abducted men in a white double-cab truck and drove them to a secluded place along Masvingo road, then beat and kicked them for an hour before releasing them,” the group said in a statement.