Staff Reporter | There is public outrage, after Vice President of the MDC-T Obert Gutu, went on Twitter, to attack Doug Coltart referring to him as “the son of a Rhodesian-era Selous Scout” and demanding that he and his father David apologise for pre-independence atrocities by the government first.

Wrote Gutu :“The son of a Rhodesian-era Selous Scout is crying louder than the bereaved!
This guy, together with his racist Rhodesia Front Selous Scout father, must firstly apologise & repent for the murderous & genocidal crimes they committed at Chimoio & Nyadzonia in Mozambique in Nov. 1977.”

Gutu was reacting to a lawyers march against police brutality in Harare, following the assault of Coltart at the central police station.

Police inside the station assaulted Coltart while he was representing a teachers’ union leader, Obert Masaraure, who was arrested for taking part in a protest last week.

Zimbabweans did not take kindly to Gutu’s views of the Coltart family, wrote one Zandoto, I’ve deleted my response to this tweet, nine times, because I had loaded unkind words about this shameful behavior of judging others by colors of their skins & history they didn’t participate in. I’m unsettled by this kind of hate on 2019AD. It’s scary to think that these are the leaders waiting to govern this country. Ma1.”

Correcting Gutu, another Twitter user under the name Chibayamoyo wrote, “ I don’t know when people will choose to be truthful. Dave Coltart was never SS. He was BSAP just like Chiyangwa who was a FR. This info is easily available to verify. I wonder what his boy should apologise for? “