Posted by JOHANNESBURG – A tortured MDC activist died recently from the injuries
that he sustained when he was tortured by state security agents and other
supporters of President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) party after the elections
last year.
Gift Nhidza (32), a former security officer in the MDC, died two weeks
ago in Odzi – a politically-volatile area in the country’s eastern province
of Manicaland.
Nhidza, popularly known as “Children”, lived as a political refugee in
Johannesburg’s Central Methodist Church during the past year, after fleeing
several attempts on his life by Mugabe’s supporters. He returned home last
month, after his already failing health had taken a turn for the worse.
Nhidza, also a former soldier, sustained horrific injuries when he was
brutalised by Zanu (PF) torture gangs in 2008, allegedly at the instigation
of then minister of transport, Christopher Mushohwe.
The MDC activist, whose worst injury was the seven fractures sustained
on his right leg, walked with the aid of crutches. He also sustained three
fractures on his left leg and several others on each of his arms while being
beaten with iron bars at a torture base in Odzi.
After the torture he was left for dead, dumped on the road inside
Spiro farm so that he would be crushed by trucks in a stage-managed road
accident. But he woke up in time to roll into the bush, from where he was
taken in a wheelbarrow by his younger brother.
His spinal cord was also damaged in three different parts as a result
of the beating and was admitted to a private hospital in Mutare for seven
months, but fled when the CIO made attempts to visit him in hospital.
Nhidza was being accused, in part, of having been deployed by the MDC
in South Africa to train bandits that would later be used to topple Mugabe,
an allegation that the octogenarian ruler has always preferred against his
opponents in a bid to decimate the opposition.
“He died a couple of weeks ago and we are told that he has since been
buried in his home area,” said Solomon Chikohwero, Chairman of the MDC
Veterans Activists Association (MDC VAA), of which Nhidza was a member.
“People like Nhidza cannot just go unnoticed because they are some of
the heroes that contributed a lot in Zimbabwe’s on-going fight for
democracy.”
May his soul R.I.P……….my heart bleeds for my fellow Zimbabweans living at Johannesburg’s Central Methodist Church………most of them are in a difficult situation, it’s not easy for them to just go back home, but the question is till when????? Kusiri kufa ndekupi………maZimbo ari kutambura muupoteri veduwe!!!!
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So WHY have we seen no-one prosecuted at all for all the MDC activist deaths, yet the AG keeps wasting taxpayers’ money with cases like Bennett’s where the State’s star witness is even denying the evidence presented.
EFF Mugabe and all Zanu zealots. For things like this, you have forever lost the vote from Zimbabweans. One death is too many; who are they to judge who lives and who doesn’t. Bunch of blood suckers!!
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NEVER FORGET YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS. IF NOT YOU THEN YOUR CHILDREN. THEY ARE ENJOYING THE LOOT AREN’T THEY.
WE WILL DEMAND PAYBACK. THINK ABOUT IT. IN SHONA WE SAY USHE MADZORO. WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.
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I was greatly touched by the death of Gift children Nhidza who passed away recently and as his close friend may his soul rest in peace
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MDC has been known to use people and then abandon them at this notorious church with no way of earning a living. I think you all know the stories of people who were abandoned and were very bitter with the MDC-T. In one of my operations, I spoke to a number of these people based at the church. most of them would just like a means of getting back to Zimbabwe and rather dying at home than dying in foreign lands.Politics!!!!!!!!
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