Terrence Mawawa|A traditional leader in Matabeleland has written a petition to Amnesty International for protection after state security agents were allegedly assigned to trail him.

Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu of Avoca, Filabusi, has often spoken out against the Gukurahundi atrocities and has been at the forefront in
demanding restitution for the affected people.
The 1980s Gukurahundi massacres mostly affected people of Ndebele ethnic origin in the Matabeleland and Midlands Provinces after the
government sent soldiers to put down the dissident menace.

“I, Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu as an
elderly Chief of Avoca, Filabusi
Communal Lands in Zimbabwe recently torched the hornet’s nest when I petitioned the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe over the Ndebele people genocide that was perpetrated by the government under the operation Gukurahundi between 1981 and 1987 using a special North Korean trained notorious military crack force called the Fifth Brigade,” read part of the petition.