The MDC Today - Issue 366
Thursday, 31 May 2012
A post mortem done on the last Cephas Magura reveals that the deceased was stoned to death by Zanu PF youths at Chimukoko Business Centre in Mutoko North, Mashonaland East last Saturday.
Magura, 67, was the MDC Ward 1 chairperson, died after Zanu PF hooligans disrupted an MDC rally and started assaulting MDC members in full view of armed police officers.
The post mortem results are contrary to a earlier report by Zanu PF’s Mudzi West MP, Aqualinah Katsande who claimed that Magura died after he fell off from a truck.
“It is not true that he was killed by our supporters but he fell out of their moving vehicle,” an untruthful Katsande was quoted saying in the press.
Katsande’s son, George, was one of the Zanu PF bandits who were involved in the violence which saw seven other MDC members being hospitalised.
Katsande and Newten Kachepa who are both Zanu PF MPs have been implicated in the violence that rocked the area last weekend.
The MDC youths yesterday told a visiting Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic) team on a fact-finding mission that the two Zanu PF MPs incited their party supporters to attack MDC members.
Taurai Kakore, MDC Youth Assembly district information and publicity secretary, said Kachepa bought beer for the Zanu PF supporters on Friday night prior to the violent clashes.
Meanwhile, Magura will be buried at Botso Village in Mudzi North on Sunday.
