Zanu-PF youth have threatened to hold a clean-up campaign on the same day as MDC’s planned demonstration.
Some believe this is a counter attraction that will only serve as a stage for violent clashes. Zanu-PF’s youth league secretary Pupurai Togarepi said they will not hesitate to take the law into their own hands in defence of the party’s property from opposition supporters whom they termed “thugs” and “hoodlums.” Said Togarepi:
In view of the impending demonstration by ‘thugs’ and ‘stupids’, we would like to encourage the general citizenry and the business community to safeguard their property against the merchants of violence who engineered the same on 1 August 2018. On its party, the league will safeguard the property against any harm. Any attempt to destroy property belonging to the party will not be taken lightly.
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