Posted on 04/23/2002 3:36:09 AM PDT by Clive
TWO young girls aged 10 and 17 watched in horror as their mother was brutally murdered by having her head chopped off at the neck. Brandina Tadyanemhandu, 53, was butchered inside her hut by about 20 youths, suspected to be Zanu PF supporters, in Magunje on Sunday.
The reason for Tadyanemhandus grisly murder was the accusation by the youths that the deceased was a supporter of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Tadyanemhandu will be buried today at Magororo village in Magunje, Hurungwe East.
She was the mother of MDC youth activist Tichaona Tadyanemhandu, 20, who went missing in Hurungwe in June 2000. His body was found six months later in the mortuary at Harare Central Hospital.
Brandina Tadyanemhandus attackers, who were allegedly led by a war veteran known as Cde Chifamba, also burnt the familys main house, destroying property worth thousands of dollars.
Tadyanemhandus husband, Enos, 63, yesterday said: They killed my only son in a family of eight children and now they have killed my wife. Why are they fighting us after they won the election? I will not be silenced. I will speak out against this evil.
A distraught Tadyanemhandu said it seemed like a normal day when he drove his herd of cattle to the dip tank at Magororo township at about 6am on the fateful day. On his way back, at about 10am, he said he was surprised when his 17-year-old daughter, Chipo, weeping, approached him.
She was crying, he said. My first thought was that she had been assaulted by a friend. She struggled to tell me that her mothers head had been cut off by Zanu PF supporters. Tadyanemhandu said
Chipo told him that her mothers alleged killers had called at the house looking for him, saying they wanted to rid the area of MDC supporters.
He said his wife had apparently asked them why they were still bothering people when they had won the presidential election. This question, it seems, incensed the youths who declared Tadyanemhandu would meet her husband in heaven before they attacked her and chopped her head off.
He said his other daughter, Tendai, aged 10, also witnessed the gruesome murder.
When I saw my wifes remains, the head and the body were cleanly separated, Tadyanemhandu said yesterday. I had to push them back together. He said a postmortem report had confirmed his wife was decapitated with a sharp object.
He said when he reported the murder at Magunje police station, the officers asked him if the assailants were known to him.
When my daughters told them that they were supporters of the ruling party the officers asked us to bring the suspects to the police station, Tadyanemhandu said.
I dont know how they expect us to follow the youths back to their base, when they are hunting for me so that they can harm me as well.
Tadyanemhandu said there were about 500 Zanu PF supporters camped near Sanyati Bridge who were terrorising villagers in Magunje.
The youths, who are reportedly receiving food provisions from the Magunje Rural District Council, are allegedly waiting to receive payment in return for campaigning for President Mugabe in last months election.
Efforts to confirm this with council officials were not successful yesterday.
I only hope enough people will avail themselves of the bump lists and see how much "the media just doesn't like to talk about..."
An excellent point.
Once again I ask Where is Whoopi? Where is Danny Glover? Jessie? Al? Paul Simon, surely you must care. Anyone?
Self-rule has been granted and the continent continues its swirl into the murky depths of murder, war, famine, disease and cannibalism
Owl _ Eagle
Guns before butter.
Now that these savages are "in charge", they'll turn on each other. Zimbabwe will be the next Rwanda or Uganda (under Amin).
Sh!T, I've been the truly ignorant on this subject. Someone put me on their list please.
It is too bad those farmers and their families don't believe in self defense. My wife and 4 kids could make sure 20 savages with machetes didn't attack anybody else. I'd have to come home and clean up the mess...
OMG, this is awful. As a mother, I can't even imagine my girls going through such an ordeal. AS for the above mentioned, they are just too busy bashing Republicans, and Jesse, well he has his hands full worrying about whether or not Burger King employs enough minorities. You should know that is much more important then this article.
"Now look what you did. You call this a clean kill? There's parts of him everywhere. What have I told you about..."
Indeed! And South Africa will follow in only a year or two. Amazing what can be done in a continent with staggering natural resources by a few draconian dictators. But things are better now that Whitey is out of the picture.
BTW- I noticed the Amin qualifier on the Uganda example which indicates to me you are aware of the actual good work being done by President Museveni of Uganda. One of the oh so few benevolent rulers in an otherwise teeming sea of hopeless evil.
Owl_Eagle
Guns Before Butter.
The liberals don't want to report on their failures. How sad that these people must go through this, and apparently nothing can be done for them.
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