ZIMS FACE DEPORTATIONS AS ARMY ASSUME SUB CHIEFS ROLES

These Zimbabwean nationals were arrested whilst demonstrating at the Chinese Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa last Friday.

The demonstrators had failed to file an urgent application to the South African Police Service (SAPS) as to go and hand in a petition at the Embassy seven days prior to the demonstration as required by the law.

Meanwhile Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF) , Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition and Solidarity Peace Trust are fighting nail, tooth and claw to have these activists as they face persecution once in Zimbabwe.

On Tuesday about thirty of the 150 who had been arrested on Friday were released after paying a bail of R500 each and among them are the Revolutionary Youth Movement leaders, Simon Mudekwa and John Chikwari.

This reporter has it on high authority that the Ambassador of Zimbabwe to South Africa, Simon Khaya Moyo has collected the names from Sunnyside Police Station and intent on handing them to the Beitbridge Law and Order section unit.

With over 15 Movement for Democratic Change activists having been killed following the post election violence lives of these Zimbabweans will obviously be in danger if they are deported back home any time soon .

Reports’ coming from Zimbabwe alleges that every chiefdom and sub chiefs are now under the heavy surveillance of the Zimbabwe National Army, Military Police and Joint Operation Command in preparation of a possible run-off.

A resident of Masogwe village in Mwenezi district of Masvingo who just fled from the warlike region alerted the Zimbabwean that all sub chiefs in the district had been suspended and members of the army were presiding over these areas as interim sub chiefs.