rmishes with the campus security.
Mugwiji, currently on suspension, is being charged with trespassing, while Ngwarai is being charged with Malicious Injury to Property.
They are detained at Masvingo Central Police Station. The skirmishes started when the security guards threatened the student
leaders with violence, apparently because they were coming from a ZINASU
meeting, which was discussing the cadetship program.The two were in the company of other general council members from the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) when the chaos ensued. The other student leaders, who include, Mehluli Dube and Zwelithini Viki escaped, but were briefly detained on Sunday after they had taken food for the incarcerated colleagues. They were later released.
Other student leaders from GZU are on the run, including George Makamure and Mukudzei Shoko.
Meanwhile, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe, Levy Nyagura,
has suspended UZ Students Executive (SEC) President, Lovemore Chinoputsa and
Secretary for Legal Affairs, Fortune Chamba over the peaceful demonstration
the two led last week at the campus. They were subsequently arrested and
beaten by campus security and sustained injuries in the process. – Zinasu
27.9.2007
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Student leaders arrested again
MASVINGO
Barely two weeks after student leaders in Masvingo were arrested, police have once again arrested two student leaders. Whitlow Mugwiji, President of Great Zimbabwe University, who spent three nights in olice cells last week, and Courage Ngwarai, an SRC member, were arrested after ski