The government said that it will not allow the MDC to conduct “demonstrations on a daily or weekly basis”.
In a statement on Wednesday, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Cain Mathema said that the police will not hesitate to seize vehicles that will be used to transport people fro demonstrations. He said:
The Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has noted with concern the mischief by the MDC and its surrogates who have notified regulating authorities in all police districts and stations of the intended demonstrations on the 29th and 31st August 2019.
We are quite aware that the opposition and its partners intend to hire buses and other vehicles to ferry people to various centres in the country for unlawful gatherings.
Transport operators, both public and private, should not be used as destabilising agents in the country. Vehicles used to promote lawlessness will certainly be impounded by the police.
The country cannot afford to be having demonstrations on a daily or weekly basis … the economy suffers as attention is taken away from key activities which as a country we should be focused upon.
We cannot continue to be an elections mode indefinitely, as this creates a security threat to the country. My ministry is concerned by the MDC’s … continuous agenda of dividing and polarising the nation.
This agenda will not work as the commissioner-general of police has been given the responsibility to ensure that law and order is maintained in every village, district, province and the nation at large.
The Zimbabwean people have suffered enough hence they can sustain daily demos unlike what this moronic thinking minister is saying/thinking.
You so called minister, u think rest of us true Zimbabweans we like what u are doing to us, and our beloved country?u must be out of your mind! Maybe you Zanu of thugs,This time we won’t fold our hands and watch you rather kill us all you killers and we know u are killers.
minister vari right mapurisa ngavaite basa ravo re maintenance of law and order
What causes demonstrations time we come u who thought Mugabe could be removed people are fed up ministers you eat everyday free food the majority are without remember time is coming u are not ministers to time indefinite ,