A week in to lockdown, some Harare policemen were filmed enthusiastically beating a woman for being outdoors. A couple of weeks after that, we saw photographs of more women, this time in Bulawayo, brutalised by police. Now we have 3 MDC female officials who have been tortured.
The beatings are crude, cruel and a weapon of fear & intimidation. The viciousness with which members of police force gleefully undertake these actions is puzzling. Do they not have mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers & children too? The sad thing about this whole thing though...
Is we have seen this before. There's not an area in Zimbabwe where there has been no police brutality in one form or another, across the country. The violence is the same, it is only the victims' names that change. Zimbabweans fall in to the trap of discussing each new case....
Some names get better coverage than others but the subject remains violence. Why do we re-elect the same government that terrorises our people over and over again? Even with 10% rigging, 40% of votes for ZanuPF is way too high for a country that has suffered at their hands....
Why is there violence in political parties when they jostle for leadership positions, including in the opposition? What is this culture of violence in politics that has reduced us to fisticuffs over wits in battle for ideas? Or is it because, it is not a battle for ideas but....
...lust for power? APA condemns the latest violence against our citizens, speaks out against ruthlessness in politics to the detriment of the nation and calls on all to #FixTheFoundation so that we can #RehabilitateZimbabwe We have to say, enough!
Elect a government that will do battle with ideas for a prosperous future, not one that will divide you with food parcel politics, excellence in factionalism and rob you of your future with rampant & shameless corruption. You deserve better! Much better.
