Petrol bombing, assault ZWNEWS Date posted:Tue 6-Jan-2004 Date published:Tue 6-Jan-2004
Back to previous page		The house, however, was devastated, and all their belongings except the clothes they were wearing were destroyed The home of the deputy chair of Zvishavane Town Council was petrol-bombed early on Sunday morning. Simon Dick, who is a ward councillor in the Town, and also youth chair for Midlands South for the opposition MDC, fled unhurt from the house in Zvishavane with his sister-in-law Esther Wilson. The house, however, was devastated, and all their belongings except the clothes they were wearing were destroyed. Zvishavane is in Mberengwa East constituency, in which there was more violence than in any other constituency in the 2000 parliamentary elections. In Nkulumane suburb near Bulawayo last Friday, Fr Nigel Johnson, a Jesuit priest, was assaulted by CID officers, He had been filming local musicians when he was set upon by the police officers, kicked onto the ground, and threatened with the confiscation of his car, camera and ID card. Local residents protested at his treatment, and the police officers then took Johnson to the local police station, from where he was transferred to Bulawayo Central. He was released the next morning after a night in the cells. No charges were brought against him.