Zanu PF taxi wars get dirty

The battle for control of Harare’s lucrative commuter omnibus ranks has allegedly turned nasty amid reports that Zanu PF activists who grabbed the ranks two years ago are now fighting each other.

Two weeks ago, a group of unidentified party activists allegedly kidnapped Wilbert Zhakata, a Zanu PF member and chairman of the Urban Transport Association of Zimbabwe (UTAZ), and severely assaulted him before dumping him at a secluded area in Turnpike along the Harare-Bulawayo Road.

Party members who declined to be named said Zhakata was kidnapped at gunpoint and heavily assaulted on two different occasions between July 5 and 6, and lost three teeth in the process.

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