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Zimbabwean police on Saturday fired teargas at an opposition party gathering in Harare and arrested 25 of its members, including two members of parliament, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) said.

The arrests come after a wave of politically motivated violence against opposition supporters in rural Zimbabwe,. The date has not yet been announced.

“It was an unsanctioned gathering according to the local authorities who is the officer commanding Budiriro. I am receiving numerous reports that people were beaten, we will release a full statement in due course,” police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said. “It wasn’t open to the public at all. The Maintenance of Peace and Order Act only applies to public meetings in a public place,” CCC spokeswoman Fadzayi Mahere told Reuters.

 

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That's their offense as laid out by the incompetent Zanuist Police PoliceZimbabwe

What is the use of SADC and AU ?

There is no democracy in this country

This bad

It's gonna be a bloody 2023 for Zimbos,Zanu pf a terrorist organisation will terrorise citizens so they can return power and further destroy that country...zanu pf🚮

Let us tag MbalulaFikile until he comments

when SADC & AU election observers come to Zimbabwe to monitor elections they will be romanced and booked in 5 star hotels by zanupf,while our people in rural areas will be beaten into submission by zanupf SA will then endorse their revolutionary looters ,zanupf as winners

After the elections you will endorse the election results as free and fair when you can see from onset that the ground is not level. SABCnews CyrilRamaphosa SADC AU

And in South Africa on Saturday 100 people were raped. 61 murdered. 30 killed by SA police.

Busy arresting unarmed civilians whilst Jaison Muvhevhi vachimutya. Saka muchaitasei

SADC_News u keep quiet but see and hear this what kind of humanity is this UN , _AfricanUnion .....

I don't think they were given permission to gather, the problem these leaders of CCC they hide themselves, but pushing you to do unnecessary things

& the government of South Africa supports a government that's behind all these things 🙄

Zimbabwe is not the best place for violence we know they will start saying there are human rights abuse in Zimbabwe but was the demonstration wasn't sanctioned and it's against the Zimbabwe law so we thank PoliceZimbabwe for the job well done Varakashi4ED

This is great coverage, please zero in more on the atrocities there's more work to do.

tendaim65 are you in Zim bro ?

Senatla_01 Uphi usimba yena, uthini neLegal qualifications yakhe uma abantu bakhe be shaywa amaphoyisa.

Do sad

Thats the only plan remain for Zanupf ...beating up CCC supportters

Evil Zanupf

If Anc don't stop bootlicking zanupf unfortunately you will see more Zim people flocking here,and it's gonna be a catastrophe

And MbalulaFikile said we should keep zanupf in power

They are cowards

Our PoliceZimbabwe is used by ZANUPF_Official to close the democratic space, they accuse us of being sellouts, puppets of the West. They even blame us bringing sanctions

Nyaope boys

FIGHT BACK....SUPERIOR LOGIC BEINGS....🤦‍♀️

Firstly did the CCC got permission to hold the rally or they did as they please. I don't trust them.

ibbosnr ANC is part of our problem. ANC is a beneficial in this. The world should know this.

Mbalula the ANC SG supports the zanu pf thugs that are terrorists against their own people. Bogus “liberation” movements solidarity!

The Zanufied Police

nickmangwana can you explain why PoliceZimbabwe are abusing power?

Zanu pf and the Police are cancerous

Singenaphi thina?

The ANC will say nothing unless they can blame white people

Zimbabwe Zimbabweans 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So called a police 😂😂

Sanctions 🤷🏾‍♀️

Kudakwa50703366 Wonzi March for anti sanctions ini kwete

Zimbo’s, this is why you have sanctions. This is the time to go back to your country and fight for it.

Zimbabwe is not a country, its a Zoo nation with human-animals

Zanu Pf is holding the country at ransom they beat up old people who support opposition party hope something or someone will unite Zimbabweans to defend and get what's theirs rather than being cowards who always look for plan B,C,D

The police is just a tool at disposal for the ruling party.

The ZANUPF_Official comrades are scared of the coming elections! They know that they are going to lose and their only reaction for now is violence and arbitrary arrests. We get worried when people like MbalulaFikile speak out siding with a regime that consumes its people

Does Zim have state institutions? Can we trust ZRP to investigate ZANU PF/ZRP violence? Can verdicts on CCC abuses be taken as just. Can we blame sanctions when Ministers take USD500k? Is ZBC impartial? YES, we're afraid of violence, but we're NOT AFRAID TO TAKE IT OUT. Registerd

Sabc are also on a mission for a regime change lead by Zimbabwean Peter Ndoro. Did you go on the ground and see what happened

PoliceZimbabwe you are now going international for wrong reasons, Shame on you 🙈🙈🙈 advocatemahere nickmangwana Mathuthu bbmhlanga ZBCNewsonline HeraldZimbabwe caesarzvayi daddyhope elias_mambo cemambo zenzele

We going the same road guys, beware.

Always in the news for the wrong reasons

MbalulaFikile if you have nothing to say about Zim keep your mouth shut!

amos_chiroodza Nonsense

MbalulaFikile is this the regime you were saying should not be changed? We are coming to South Africa in our numbers after elections

USEmbZim euinzim UKinZimbabwe SADC_News MYANC CyrilRamaphosa PresidencyZA MmusiMaimane HermanMashaba ZANUPF_Official nickmangwana will never reform, they are already preparing to steal our elections AGAIN!!! daddyhope CCCZimbabwe HHichilema joseph_kalimbwe

Lols SABC

MbalulaFikile and CyrilRamaphosa are busy having an erection over this. How they wish they could do the same thing in SA. No wonder why they are always supporting edmnangagwa and his evil, despotic ZanuPF party joseph_kalimbwe daddyhope cnni AlJazeeraWorld

kumchez Munangagwa's days in the office are numbered,Mugabe used to do this,what goes around comes back around,African dictators could do anything to stay in power and MbalulaFikile supports that

Will this happen in SA when the anc realises it will loose the elections

This is what brings sanctions on Zim but SADC leaders avoid talking about it because Mnangagwa is one of them. This should be condemned

If you hold a rally without police clearance you got arrested

That Zimbabwean Police uniform is not make sure...

MbalulaFikile said its sanctions

We are doomed

Participating in politics is not as interesting anymore

Kutonga kwamwari muchakuona

Zanu is a ruthless party...want a second thru intimidation,torture,arrest oppositions using Police n Army

And the police brutally beat up a lawyer who had come up to represent the arrested. Zanu Pf government afraid of free and fair elections.

Thank you SABC for airing zim issues. ZBC is silent 🤫 like nothing has happened. Waiting for instructions from their mastered on how to choreograph the issue. It’s sad that having a different point of view is a crime. When will we learn and respect 🫡 ourselves

You can't rehabilitate an old crocodile.

Smith was better

loveisblind202 MbalulaFikile

Its easy for police brutality since everyone is in s.a illegally .

MbalulaFikile PresidencyZA Your zanupf friends are abusing human rights and you busy support them.

SABC our voice.. Thank you for doing the Lord's work

Where is the SADEC and AU, organisation of pensioners serving no purpose to the region and the continent. What is actually the purpose of this two bodies. African leaders must learn to condemn one another for not doing right by the people, buddy-buddy style must end

Members of Parliament 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Why is alostro in Zimbabwe

Zim is Africa’s North Korea

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In Zimbabwe, being a CCC supporter it's a big change, it's like u committed a big crime to an extent tt ,a murder person is even better. Imagine being treated like this in our on country. Obviously 2023 it's gonna be pandemonium.

And they expect respected world governments to lift their sanctions? I support the latter

enos_luig MbalulaFikile how do you feel now?

Pan Africanism is a pipe dream. You treat your own like this so that you stay in power by any means

I'm really grateful for all the efforts you have render to me with my little investment of R5000 and with joy over me after withdrawing R60,000 with your help Lisa_berry77 thank you for everything you have done for me and my family Lisa_berry77

Thers no hope for that God forsaken place. And we will never be rid of Zimbabweans migrants.

These so called Zimbabweans police are not for Zimbabweans ey are for the ZANUPF_Official in fact ey should be called Zanu pf police force , they're not protecting the citizens they're protecting zanupf_patriots ,which makes em deadly than anything else in 🇿🇼

After this they claim to be pple's party ZANU PF is a shame

African dictators who cling on to power by any means necessary never fail to remind us why Morocco doesn't wanna be part of their African nonsense or AU cos it's an atrocious rubbish that keeps failing ordinary people that they claim to lead. Sies edmnangagwa 🚮

This one of the reasons I will never support the idea of US of Africa, the entire continent might be under such dictatorships with nowhere to run

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