He was beaten to death at ZANU PF’s offices in Fourth Street, Harare, after a peaceful demonstration during the SADC talks on Monday. We are told that the party’s political commissar, Elliot Manyika, was responsible and the Vigil swears to leave no stone unturned to make sure he eventually faces justice.
As we feared, the SADC meeting yielded nothing. The deceitful SADC communiqué falsely claimed that the only point of dispute in the power-sharing talks was who would hold the Home Affairs Ministry. It is clear that the Troika was only interested in bullying the MDC and keeping Mugabe in power.
The Vigil has little confidence that a SADC Summit will take a different view even though Botswana, Zambia and Tanzania are likely to be less cowed by Mugabe. It was thought the one ray of light from the Harare meeting was that the new South African leadership seems to be aware of the desperate situation in Zimbabwe.