14 March 2020

Yesterday the MDC Students Council NEC visited Youth Assembly spokesperson Steven “Sarkozy” Chuma and the Chitungwiza 12 comrades at Harare Remand prison.

The visit however was interrupted by one overzealous prison official who upon realising that we had come in numbers to give moral support to our cdes in remand refused to give permission to all the 14 NEC members to see the cdes.

He said that we had come to cause disturbances at the remand prison and expressed his dismay over the MDC protests which he said will never result in the MDC taking power.

The prison official openly declared that
“MDC haimbotonge unless isu veSecurity tazvibvumira”. He later pulled out a Prison Ordinance which he claimed did not permit us to see the cdes.

However, after much pursuasion he later only allowed the Chairperson Prince Gora to see Sarkozy and the other 12 cdes.

He found the comrades in high spirits and the YA spokesperson had this to say, ”

“The walls of Harare Remand Prison will never dampen my spirits, if anything they will spur me on to take Emmerson Mnangagwa`s illegitimate regime head on.

This is not a personal struggle but a generational struggle to pursue the National Democratic Agenda. Indeed change is on the horizon and we pride ourselves for the sacrifices towards that which is good.”

“Very soon we will be out and we are going to take the struggle to Mnangagwa’s doorstep”, added the firebrand Youth Assembly mouthpiece.

By Tamuka Gurure
Spokesperson
MDC Students Council