Shyleen Mtandwa | Zanu PF youths have disrupted  National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) bill hearings which were being held in Chinhoyi.

According to people who took part in the  public hearings, scores of Zanu PF youths who were chanting  their party’s  campaign slogans  heckled and disrupted the hearing accusing fellow participants of being opposition party members.

“This led to the Parliamentary team led by Justice Mayor Wadyajena to stop the hearing as the team had failed to restore order,” participants narrated the events.

Similar disturbances also happened in Bindura on Thursday, where Zanu PF slogan chanting hooligans disrupted the NPRC public hearing meeting.

During the course of the hearing, a participant who is a victim of 2008 political violence was threatened with violence as he made his contributions by several participants who were chanting PF slogans.

The hearing had to be momentarily stopped as participants continued to heckle one another during submissions.

In a statement Friday, Heal Zimbabwe Trust, a peace promotion NGO said the development was worrying.

“Heal Zimbabwe notes that the high levels of intolerance exhibited during the hearings in Bindura and Chinhoyi is worrying and serves to affirm that Zimbabwe is in dire need of healing and reconciliation.

“Heal Zimbabwe notes that views of people on the provision of any Bill before its enactment is critical as it enhances the democratization processes and the rule of law,” said the NGO.