The Black Sunday when Tsvangirai quit

HARARE: For Takanetsa (not his real name), it was the Sunday he felt he would show concern for his country Zimbabwe by attending a church service in Harare to pray for peace during the June 27 presidential elections run-off.

He arrived at church and sat with others. They started talking about Zimbabweans' resilience and the good that might come out of it. But the church service never took place courtesy of marauding youth from the ruling party, ZANU-PF.

The situation was very tense as the youth in ZANU-PF regalia sang revolutionary songs and dispersed people walking in groups of three. They did not even spare people queuing to buy the cheapest, commodity in town, bread ($500million), at a supermarket near the Market Square bus terminus. The main aim was to prevent opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to hold a scheduled rally near the Showground.

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