MDC-T activists acquitted of inciting violence

Dzokurasa and Morgan Ncube along with Patrick Seke, was cleared of the charges after the State failed to prove a case against them.
Their accomplice Enos Chili and Siphiwe Mdau will stand trial again following a High Court order. The five had been left to stand trial after 48 others were acquitted ofthe same charges.
Beitbridge magistrate Mrs Auxillia Chiumburu presided over the matter.
Chili and Mdau will have to stand trial before a new magistrate on a date to be advised. The duo of Moffat Ndou and Buhle Dube, who are the party’s western and eastern chairmen and were also jointly charged for convening the meeting, which led to the chaos without notifying the police, were cleared of the charges with the rest of the group.
Charges against the group arose on February 6, 2010 when Ndou and Dube convened a public gathering at Caravan Park in the border town without notifying the police as required by the law.
It is alleged that clashes ensued between the group led by Enos Tshili and another led by Eliot Maveza. The clashes resulted in the property at the venue being damaged.
Several people were injured, two of them seriously. Riot police had to be called in when delegates to the meeting at Caravan Park started exchanging blows after what is believed to be a tribal-based dispute erupted. Sixty people were arrested.
Prosecutor Mr Reason Mutimba appeared for the State.