The Glen Lorne house is also his mother’s residence. The armed men also attacked the security guard whose head, nose and hands were bandaged when he spoke to reporters.

“We wrestled for a while as they attacked me with axes,” he said.
Three were inside and one was outside. They had a gun. I started screaming and they ran away.”

Visual evidence shows that the intruders wanted to slay Biti’s security guard. The CCC announced that the incident happened at 12 am Zimbabwe time. Police are yet to comment on the incident.

CCC Secretary-General Chalton Hwende accused Zanu-PF of orchestrating the attack on Biti’s house.

“Hon Tendai Biti’s homestead was attacked last night, his security aide seriously injured. Zanu PF leaders are playing a very dangerous game, you don’t call for an election and start killing and maiming your opponents. The violence must stop!!” Hwende said.

A lot is happening in Tendai Biti’s life right now. There is political violence happening ahead of by-elections set to be held on the 26th of March where Biti is contesting in the Harare East constituency.

Last week, Zanu-PF members allegedly attacked CCC leader Nelson Chamisa’s supporters and disrupted a rally in Kwekwe. The suspects who have since been arrested used spears, machetes, stones and iron bars to assault the opposition supporters.

Biti is also facing allegations of assaulting a Russian national and controversial Kenneth Raydon Sharpe owned Pokugara Properties employee Tatiana Aleshina. It’s difficult, at first glance to ascertain what could have motivated the attack at Hon Tendai Biti’s house with so many elements at play from personal enemies to his court case.

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Biti and co were recalled from parliament on the 17th of March 2021.

According to the High Court, the man who initiated the recall, Mr Benjamin Rukanda was in fact not a member of the PDP.

Tendai Biti is notably once of the more vocal members of parliament in opposition ranks, analysts believe that is why he was targeted.

More to follow

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This decision was made possible on Thursday by a ruling by the High Court judge, Justice Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba. The ruling stated that the PDP faction led by Lucia Matibenga had the power to recall the party’s MPs and councilors who have joined the post-election MDC Alliance.

Some parliamentarians were displeased with this decision. Among the displeased is Harare Mayor, Jacob Mafume, a part of the PDP faction. Mafume told th emedia that they had since appealed against the High Court ruling at the Supreme Court.

Tendai Biti was not the only member to be recalled. He was accompanied out of parliament by Hon William Madzimure(Kambuzuma), Hon Settlement Chikwinya(Mbizo), Hon Regai Tsunga (Mutasa South Constituency), and Hon Phulu Kucaca (Nkulumane).

What are your thoughts on this matter?

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The seasoned lawyer and politician was arguing a decision by a High Court that upheld the ZUPCO monopoly on public transport. The matter according to Biti has been referred back to the High Court under a different judge.

We were in court today arguing that a High Court decision upholding the #Zupco monopoly on public transport was unlawful .The Supreme court agreed & remitted matter back to a different judge @ZLHRLawyers⁩ brought this case&we thank them for great work in defending our people pic.twitter.com/p2enky8X6K

— TENDAI BITI (@BitiTendai) March 12, 2021

The complainant in this case is the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR).

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All that glitters is not gold!

Social media was abuzz with praises for Biti but woke up singing a different tune after realizing that not all that blow the horn are hunters. In his response to Professor Lovemore Madhuku regarding his statement on Vice President Kembo Mohadi’s resignation, Tendai Biti blatantly referred to people from Chipinge as witches. He said the following:

“Lovemore you are very wrong. The golden rule of statutory interpretation is the ordinary natural meaning of words. Your contextual approach within the context of this debate is pure witchcraft. But then again you come from Chipinge”

Zim Twitter took a combative approach in response to this tribalist remark. Here are some of the comments on the issue:

What are your thoughts on this statement by the MDC-Alliance Vice President?

Does this reveal that his statements on the Chilonga issue where not a reflection of his concern for the Zimbabwean people but an act?

Following from this incident, Tendai Biti changed his statement to the following:

“Lovemore you are very wrong. The golden rule of statutory interpretation is the ordinary natural meaning of the words.Your contextual approach within the context of this debate is pure witchcraft. Your new found knack of defending the indefensible is particularly astounding given your roots”

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Does this change indicate Tendai Biti’s sincere apology on the matter?

Let us know what you think in the comment section below.

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WE SPENT a few days in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi, visiting and listening to compatriots in Chiredzi South and East constituencies. We met with ordinary citizens, community leaders and traditional leaders.

We travelled huge distances to places such as Chikombedzi, Malipati, Boli and Gonarezhou. We saw and heard from a tortured, insecure and angry citizen in the Shangaan communities so dominant in this part of the Lowveld.

This is a community that has suffered displacements twice before. In the 1960s, they were removed from the Hippo Valley area to make way for sugar estates. They were then ejected to pave way for huge wildlife reserves – Gonarezhou National Park and Malilangwe Reserve. They subsequently rebuilt their lives in the south eastern Lowveld in areas mulcted by tsetse fly, high temperatures, wild animals, poverty and infrastructure deficits.

Years of alienation, isolation, exclusion and reification make these communities feel like outsiders. Without access in some cases to Zimbabwean services such as radio, mobile phone networks, gas stations – never mind jobs, hospitals and schools – there is greater connection with Mozambique and South Africa.

The displacement of these populations planned by the regime to make way for a Dendairy project to grow animal fodder – lucerne – is thus the ultimate invasion and insult to these communities. They have been told 12,500 people will be ejected and 9,000 hectares taken under Phase One. When Phase 2 and 3 are completed, a massive 21,000 hectares of their land would have been confiscated.

For a community that participated in the liberation struggle that brought independence in 1980, they don’t understand why they should be ejected for only their land to be given to one white man and his company. They already do contract farming for Delta and Ingwebu, so they can’t understand why they can’t contract farm lucerne for the white man, a pal of the ruling elites.

In view of massive pieces of underutilised agricultural land dotted in their region, they don’t understand why the same land is not being used for the lucerne project. They don’t understand why cattle grass has become more important than people or the small grains they produce. They strongly feel that that they are victims, not just of greed and avarice but also of tribal rejection as an ethnic minority.

The Shangaan people of Chiredzi know that the regime has, in 41 years, been cruel and extractive against ethnic minorities. They have suffered displacements, genocide and exclusion.

They only demand to be left in peace with their land, their graves, their shrines and their livestock. They demand schools, bridges, hospitals and jobs. They simply ask for respect and the right to be treated as equal citizens. They simply ask for the right to be called Zimbabweans.

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