A system that failed a father

LAST week a tragic scene unfolded at the busy intersection of Robert Mugabe Road and Inez Terrace in Harare, where a young father was struck and killed during a high-speed police chase, according to witnesses.

According to accounts from those who were there, moments earlier, he had been stopped for mistakenly driving the wrong way on a poorly marked one-way street and instructed by police to pay a fine at the charge office.

While he complied, his car — with his children still inside — was clamped by city council marshals.

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