Kadoma residents forced to pull down satellite dishes ( Zimbabwe )

Residents from the mining town of Kadoma awoke Friday morning to the sound of Zanu PF thugs demanding they pull down their satellite dishes or risk having their homes burnt down. Frightened residents hastily took down their satellite dishes after the Zanu PF mobs moved around the suburbs to enforce their demands. They accused foreign news stations, accessed via satellite, of misinforming Zimbabweans on the political situation in the country. A woman told us that all the men from nearby Venus Mine were forced to join the Zanu PF mobs in ‘a war against the residents of Kadoma.’ Two trucks arrived in the area to collect Zanu PF youths, but in the end all the men in the area were told to jump onto the trucks, or face retribution later. Many Kadoma residents on Friday refused to venture outside their homes, in an attempt to avoid... [read full story]