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constituency. Harmonised elections are scheduled for July 31.

National police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest of Samuel Mulauzi (18) last Wednesday and said he was assisting police with investigations.
He said last Tuesday Mr Khumalo pasted his party posters in the constituency before they were removed by Mulauzi.

It is alleged that he confronted Mulauzi who told him that he was not going to become the legislator for the constituency and there was only one candidate Mr Bekithemba Nyathi (MDC-T).

The offence was reported to the police leading to the arrest of Mulauzi, the following day.
Mulauzi is being charged with contravening the Electoral Act which criminalised defacing or destroying campaign posters.

For the past few months several MDC-T supporters have been arrested on allegations of tearing other parties’ campaign posters and for their involvement in violent activities countrywide.

Police are on record as saying they will not hesitate to arrest anyone involved in violence or whose behaviour was likely to cause disturbances especially during the run-up to election day.

MDC-T has unleashed a wave of intra- and inter-party violence in a bid to not only trash the political environment to abet its call for poll postponement, but to also provide fodder for its Western allies to discredit the poll.

The terror campaign began last year, but was intensified from January, with over 45 cases being recorded countrywide since the beginning of the year.

In all the recorded cases, MDC-T supporters were at the forefront of attacking their colleagues or those from other political parties, especially Zanu-PF.

Journalists have also not been spared, with Mashudu Netsianda of Chronicle and Herbert Moyo of The Zimbabwe Independent falling victim to violent MDC-T members in separate incidents in Harare and Bulawayo.

The attack on journalists followed threats issued by MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai who criticised journalists and media houses that do not toe his party line, saying they had no future in his perceived “new Zimbabwe”.