MDC has cried foul over the mugging of mobilising and recruitment co-ordinator Charity Matshazi on Monday evening by unknown assailants who made off with the party’s laptop containing database and sensitive information.
Report by Nduduzo Tshuma
The party’s spokesperson Nhlanhla Dube yesterday said Matshazi was attacked in Bulawayo’s Cowdray Park suburb and her assailants made off with a laptop, her mobile phone and her identification particulars.
“Charity Matshazi our mobilising and recruitment co-ordinator in charge of our database, was hit on the forehead with a brick by unknown assailants who took away the party laptop, her phone, cards and a bag at around 7.30pm,” he said.
“She made a report at Luveve Police Station and later went to Mpilo Central Hospital where it was recommended that she go for a scan as the nature of the head injury was serious.
“The laptop contained sensitive organisational information of a strategic nature.”
Dube said they suspected foul play as another party official from the same department was chased after by some people two weeks ago. “They have been working on the data base and because of the nature of the work, they have been taking laptops home,” he said.
“What makes us raise eyebrows is that another official in the same department was chased after when she disembarked from a kombi.
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“The coincidence is a bit too much. We think since they have been taking work home, naturally it is not very far fetched to connect the two incidents and conclude that most likely there is an attempt to extract information from our party by some people using unorthodox extra-judicial means.” Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Mandlenkosi Moyo yesterday confirmed the mugging.
“I confirm that we received a report yesterday at 9pm to the effect that she (Matshazi) had been robbed of her laptop and two Nokia cellphones,” he said.
“The matter is now under intensive investigation.”
