Female Activists Harrassed After Gwanzura Rally
1 March 2022
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By A Correspondent| Dozens of female CCC activists who attended the Super Yellow rally at Gwanzura Stadium have been targeted and are being trailed by suspected security agents.

Among the activists are, Chipo Ndlovu, Petronella Garwe, Gamuchirai Muchenu and Sandra Mandizvidza who once worked with The Standard weekly newspaper who endured a 4-hour detention after being rounded at Machipisa by unidentified security details.

“We were briefly detained at Machipisa Police Station for a good 4 hours and subjected to inhumane treatment.

” The security details knew my work as a journalist and interrogated me for dabbling in ‘dirty’ politics,” narrated the former communications officer in the late Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s office.

Petronella who was in tears said they were sexually assaulted.

“They made fun of my body and one security detail actually fondled my buttocks describing them as flaccid,” said a grief-stricken Petronella.

This incident comes at a time when three female CCC activists are facing charges of falsifying kidnapping and assault when they are victims.

The three are Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova who claim they were sexually abused by the suspected security agents during their captivity in 2021 .

In 2008, former ZBC journalist and director of Zimbabwe Peace Project Jestina Mukoko was abducted from her home before being held incommunicado for several weeks because of her role in exposing human rights abuses.