Zimbabwe protest day flops after crackdown vow

[schumi]

Harare - Shops and offices opened as usual across Zimbabwe on Wednesday despite a planned "shutdown" protest against President Robert Mugabe, who has vowed to end a series of anti-government demonstrations.

Riot police patrolled in the capital Harare and other cities, with minor clashes breaking out in the second city of Bulawayo, AFP reporters witnessed.

Organisers of the planned shutdown blamed the lack of response on intimidation by security forces.

"(Shops) received threats that they would lose their licences if they closed," Hardlife Mudzingwa, spokesperson for the Tajamuka protest group, told AFP.

"We also had a heavy police presence which was intimidating to ordinary members of the public."

In Bulawayo, at least seven people were detained as police broke up a group of about 30 protesters, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights group said.

Zivanai Muzorodzi, a civil society activist in the southeastern town of Masvingo, told AFP that business was slow during the day.

More at: http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/zimbabwe-protest-day-flops-after-crackdown-vow-20160831-5

 

[Pitbull]

So they scared and Bob has won again... How sad.

Which they had the balls the Egyptians had.

 

[FNfal]

I would also be scared of bob , the security forces have no qualms about killing people in that country .

"Following independence in 1980, Zimbabwe initially made significant economic and social progress, but tensions between the Shona and the Ndebele began to surface. The government responded with a series of military campaigns in which the North Korean-trained 5th brigade killed tens of thousands of civilians in Matabeleland.[9] By early 1984, the army disrupted food supplied in Matabeleland and much of the Ndebele population suffered food shortages. Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo finally reconciled their political differences by late 1987. The roots of discord remained, however, and in some ways increased as Mugabe's rule became increasingly autocratic into the 21st century "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matabeleland

 

[The_MAC]

Very sad, people basically sit back and suffer, while a single old man and a handful of beneficiaries prosper.