Manyere had taken his car to a garage in Norton on Saturday when he
received a call from a person who said he wanted to meet him. It is
believed that Manyere must have known the caller for him to agree to
the meeting. He has not been seen since.
Concern grew at 1am on Sunday morning when a group of men saying they
were from the police Law and Order section went to the
photojournalist's Westgate home and asked to search his house.
A friend of the victim said the police asked to see Manyere's wife
because her husband had been involved in a car accident and was dead.
She refused to let them in, but they returned at 10am with a search
warrant and ransacked the house, taking a laptop, video camera and some
tapes. The police have denied involvement.
Rwafa who is admitted at a private hospital reportedly sustained head
injuries and bruises, said three unidentified men who were driving a
white vehicle approached him after he had just parked his vehicle at
his Kuwadzana home. The assailants accused him of lying that things
were okay in Zimbabwe and forced him into their vehicle along
Bulawayo Road towards Norton, about 40 km west of Harare. He is quoted
in the state-controlled national daily, The Herald, saying he wrestled
with driver and the vehicle veered off the road and landed into a
ditch. He managed to escape as the assailants concentrated on rescuing
their vehicle from the ditch.
In another incident, Obrian Rwafa, a news assignment editor with the
state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) was allegedly
admitted to a private hospital with head injuries and bruises after
being abducted and beaten.
He said three unidentified men in a white vehicle approached him after
he had parked his vehicle at his Kuwadzana home. The assailants accused
him of lying that things were okay in Zimbabwe and forced him into
their vehicle.
He is reported to have wrestled with the driver and the vehicle then veered into a ditch.
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