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Family Seeks Answers In Itai Dzamara's Disappearance Nearly 10 Years Later

7 months agoFri, 30 Aug 2024 07:49:38 GMT
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Family Seeks Answers In Itai Dzamara's Disappearance Nearly 10 Years Later

The family of journalist and human rights activist Itai Dzamara is seeking clarity about his fate nearly a decade after his abduction in March 2015.

Itai Dzamara was reportedly taken by suspected state security agents on March 9, 2015, while getting a haircut in his Glen Norah neighbourhood in Harare.

Before his disappearance, he had been staging protests outside the parliament building, urging the government of then-President Robert Mugabe to uphold human rights and tackle pressing economic issues.

Speaking to VOA, Sheffra Dorica Dzamara, Itai Dzamara’s wife, said the family wants to know what happened. She said:

It’s almost 10 years without knowing where Itai is. I don’t want to lie, it’s painful if I think about it and no one can tell what happened to him. He disappears from Zimbabwe and there is silence about it.

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It’s really painful if I look at the kids. The first one was 7 and the other one was 2 – they are now grown up. They now ask: ‘Where is our daddy?’ and no one can explain what happened to him.

It’s really painful because I have no answers.

Sheffra Dzamara, the family’s sole breadwinner, struggles to make ends meet on approximately US$300 a month.

Charles Kwaramba, from Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, said he obtained a court order in 2015 for the police to search for Dzamara.

He added that while they initially received updates from the police on their investigations, these reports ceased “a long, long time ago.” Said Kwaramba:

The investigation into Itai Dzamara’s disappearance is virtually dead. We have not received any reports or indications that the police are still pursuing any investigation into the matter.

Previously we used to receive from police what they were doing, how they were doing it, the places they were going to, how they were conducting their search. But that stopped a long, long time ago.

In some instances, we would meet with officials from the police. But that stopped a long time ago. … The state has completely abdicated that responsibility.

This week, Commissioner Paul Nyathi, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson, told VOA he could not comment on Dzamara’s case.

Lucia Masuka, head of Amnesty International in Zimbabwe, urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to take action to locate the missing activist. She said:

Enforced disappearances are deployed as a strategy to silence activists, to silence those expressing dissent in this country, and the case that comes to mind is that of Itai Dzamara, well known for speaking out, against corruption, for speaking out against bad governance, and for leading peaceful protests.

The High Court had issued an order for authorities to investigate the case, bringing the perpetrators of this enforced disappearance to account and ensuring that the families of those affected secure justice in all such cases.

This call comes as the world commemorates the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances which is observed annually on August 30.

This day was established by the United Nations to raise awareness about the global issue of enforced disappearances and to honour those who have been forcibly disappeared.

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44 Comments

Lilly Tee 💕 · 6 months ago
Musaivhare pindula
Xx · 7 months ago
Ma comments epa Pindula so surrender
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Itai Dzamara is dead.please move on with your lives
stressed · 7 months ago
leave Ed alone God is for all
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Itai Dzamara akapondwa neZanupf izvi ED anozvizivisisa..
Sir African · 7 months ago
Mnanangagwa knows what happened to Dzamara as he was the acting president at the time.Mnangagwa is also deeply involved in the gukurahundi activities as he was state security minister during that era.He is involved into a lot of nasty things.
Anonymous · 7 months ago
You are haddeningED anozoramba kubva tillafiraoio
Erudite · 7 months ago
This Dzamara saga is starting to resemble a poor M.Night Shyamalan effort...I have never bought this whole barbershop charade that the Western backed media has been spewing ad nauseam for nearly a decade now..Anyone with half a working brain should be able to figure out what happened...This Dzamara character was most likely a nefarious fiend who abandoned his entire family and used one of the many exit points at our porous borders....It is a crying shame up to now we still see people trying to craft a narrative of abduction by the state...Dzamara most likely with the help of like-minded malcontents fled the country and is now living large across the border with all the salty wenches money can buy.... Erudite out
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Cee Bee 🐝 · 7 months ago
Uridutye remunhu
Erudite · 7 months ago
Truth hurts...Dzamara is a stereotypical deadbeat dad who abandoned his family and started afresh elsewhere...I am sure he will pitch up when it is time for his daughter (if he has one ) to get married and demand all the bride price like the gombeen he actually is....All those who still believe in the abduction story need to get their heads examined....😂😂😂 calling me a "dutye" will not change the fact that your alleged victim of human rights abuse is actually just a petty border jumper living it large on donor funds.... Dzamara please come home it is embarrassing now.... Erudite out
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Erudite you are beyond psychiatric therapy..
wifi · 7 months ago
Anoziva kuna Dzamara ma handlers ake....the problem nekuseenzeswa if u fail to accomplish the mission that same handler do away with u...so ask why his handlers ma Americans are quite
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Nust · 7 months ago
Don't talk whay you don't know. Americans have nothing to do with this. It's the military party which abducted and killed him like the rest
Mudhibhisi · 7 months ago
State institutions by their very nature shld be protecting individuals. Bt what do we see? The ZNA, CIOs murdering , abducting and torturing the same citizens who shld be under their protection. I fail to understand why state institutions in this country commit these heinous crimes contrary to their constitutional mandates.It seems they hv been captured by the ZANU party, ngirozi dza Satani chaidzo
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Ma devil asatani
Oncemore · 7 months ago
We don't have proof about your allegations, where are the facts
Anonymous · 7 months ago
You dreaming yourself into a frenzy.Ask why his handlers are quite.they terminated him
+263 · 7 months ago
Zanu ndeyeropa
morefire · 7 months ago
@Ndowe unobva kuNyanga hr, batsira uyo kt asvike sei paMukotsanjera amutsirwe hama yake uyo Mkwasha
VaBhomba · 7 months ago
Siyai vafi vazorore murugare
Mutare Water Aplenty · 7 months ago
Murugare chii chacho iye akapondwa
· 7 months ago
This junta inodheerera unarmed civilians. Solution is tovatsvagirewo Boko Haram.
captain · 7 months ago
Wind in the valley & Water under the bridge,tisarwa nechinoti kurira,,,,,,,,,,
😜 · 7 months ago
Revenge is coming and it will be painful,
Shumba · 7 months ago
Pakaipa apa .Hona manje vakatumwa ndovari pama one Apo akatuma haana deal
Oncemore · 7 months ago
Painful story, but journalists and some educated people must stop belittling our leaders openly, like what Itai Dzamara did. We must confront our leaders with care. They also make mistakes because they are humans, we must raise our issues through the right channels, we should not challenge the leaders and government, if you try to fight the government alone, you won't succeed. If you can't beat them, join them. Fighting Mugabe was not an easy task, even Tony Blair and W. Bush new it. My message is clear, let us not fight our government.
· 7 months ago
F☆☆☆ YOU
Corruptmore Looto · 7 months ago
****ic mind filled with rot
jojo · 7 months ago
Go to ****
VaBhomba · 7 months ago
Munofira mafufu segundwane
... · 7 months ago
@mkwasha.zvinoitika kana hama yafa zvisina tsarukano.pamunomuviga paya,munotora zviyo kana kuti njera momuisa mukanwa make.moviga zvakadaro.motaura masoko henyu amurikuda seekuti" irwa Hondo dzako wega". zviyo pazvinongotanga kumera mukanwa muya,Hondo inenge yatitanga kune vakamuurayi
qwerty · 7 months ago
hazviori here zviyo izvozvo pazvinenge zviri mumuromo
VaBhomba · 7 months ago
Iyoyo ndiyo inonzi hogwash kana kuti **** muzadze zviyo mumuromo wechitunha mune shuwa
Oncemore · 7 months ago
Pakaipa
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Nonsense
mkwasha · 7 months ago
Kuti munhu azonzi amuka ngozi zvinenge zvambodini nhai?Mukadzi wemuno akaurawa nemurungu kwakuiswa muhochi kuti dzidye-zvakatopera?Ko vanopfekedzwa matyre kuSouth Afrika-zvakatorova?Ivava maActivists zvakatovharana?Kune mafiro here kuti uzomuka mhodzi??? Zvekudzoka sengozi zvikaramba,hazvigoneki here kuti ungomuka hako uchiudza veukama kwauri uye zvakauraya???Hama yangu yakapfekedzwa tyre ikapiswa kuSouth about 10 years ago,takamutora tikamuviga muno,asi nanhasi wakangonyarara zvake.Saka zvoguma nekuzodiii,iye akafa zzvinorwadza samare.Mubvunzo wangu inodzokazve kuti ngozi chiii?Zvine ropa here kana rudzi kuti munhu adzoke kurwa ega nevakamuuraya???
Voltaire · 7 months ago
Kuti munhu amuke ngozi, hama dzake dzinenge dzanoreverera pa guva rake vachiita zvechivanhu. Kana kumusha kwake kusina vanhu vanoita zvechivanhu haamuki ngozi
VaBhomba · 7 months ago
Kwako kurikuda kuti hama yako itadze kuzorora murugare iswere ichingoza vanhu
Lloyd · 7 months ago
yuwi
Anonymous · 7 months ago
The Family should approach Nganga and prophets to know what happened.
theLastAntKing · 7 months ago
one's work is to abduct & silence 🤫 After a while doing the same thing, the horrors will come back & haunt them. That's why zvima dumdum zvikuwanda, vaiita mabasa makukutu. Kana muurayi wemombe pa Kaola akamborasa njere ko kuzoti wevanhu
Siza · 7 months ago
wandispaka neye muurayi wemombe kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

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