{"id":40163,"date":"2021-05-11T20:55:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=40163"},"modified":"2021-05-11T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:49:07","slug":"scores-injured-as-violence-erupts-at-mdc-t-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/scores-injured-as-violence-erupts-at-mdc-t-meeting","title":{"rendered":"Scores Injured As Violence Erupts At MDC-T Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Scores of opposition MDC-T supporters were injured at a party meeting held Sunday at a senior leader\u2019s house in Marlborough after intra-party violence erupted over an undisclosed matter.<\/p>\n<p>The party that is led by Senator Douglas Mwonzora laid the blame on Nelson Chamisa\u2019s MDC Alliance. The party posted on social media:<\/p>\n<p><b>_MDC-T Harare West district members gathered for a gap-filling meeting yesterday were attacked by MDC Alliance violent thugs. The violent thugs were gathered at Civic Centre in Marlborough. They attacked women and children and stabbed five MDC-T members._<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Top MDC-T provincial official Charity Bango, who hosted the meeting, said she had nothing to comment when NewsDay contacted her for comment telling them to contact the party spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>MDC Alliance provincial youth secretary Denford Ngadziore denied any involvement in the squabbles. He said:<\/p>\n<p><b>_During the said period and times of the allegations, I had made a special visit to some State institution with all the evidence in the public domain._<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Police could not confirm the alleged clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Some used the weekend incident and the chaotic December Extraordinary Congress to conclude that MDC-T was a violent party.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened after the ruling ZANU PF had also recorded an intra-party conflict in Chinhoyi on Saturday at a District Coordinating Committee (DCC) meeting over an undisclosed matter.<\/p>\n<p>A video that circulated on social media shows members breaking bottles to be used to attack colleagues. Some threw missiles at colleagues who were running for dear life.<\/p>\n<p><b>More: Pindula News; NewsDay<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Scores of opposition MDC-T supporters were injured at a party meeting held Sunday at a senior leader\u2019s house in Marlborough after intra-party violence erupted over an undisclosed matter. The party that is led by Senator Douglas Mwonzora laid the blame on Nelson Chamisa\u2019s MDC Alliance. The party posted on social media: _MDC-T [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,10,15],"tags":[1493,2189,1793,1551,1540,64,1557,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-40163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-parties","11":"category-twitter","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-douglas-mwonzora","15":"tag-mdc-alliance","16":"tag-mdc-t","17":"tag-nelson-chamisa","18":"tag-zanu-pf-2","19":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scores Injured As Violence Erupts At MDC-T Meeting - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scores of opposition MDC-T supporters were injured at a party meeting held Sunday at a senior leader\u2019s house in Marlboro ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/scores-injured-as-violence-erupts-at-mdc-t-meeting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scores Injured As Violence Erupts At MDC-T Meeting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scores of opposition MDC-T supporters were injured at a party meeting held Sunday at a senior leader\u2019s house in Marlboro ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/scores-injured-as-violence-erupts-at-mdc-t-meeting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-11T18:55:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-11T16:49:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/05\/img-609ab557b0cb6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1132\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"574\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/scores-injured-as-violence-erupts-at-mdc-t-meeting\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/scores-injured-as-violence-erupts-at-mdc-t-meeting\",\"name\":\"Scores Injured As Violence Erupts At MDC-T Meeting - 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