{"id":55380,"date":"2022-03-02T22:44:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=55380"},"modified":"2022-03-02T21:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T19:29:45","slug":"murder-at-ccc-kwekwe-rally-family-says-mbongeni-wasnt-a-ccc-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/murder-at-ccc-kwekwe-rally-family-says-mbongeni-wasnt-a-ccc-member","title":{"rendered":"Murder At CCC Kwekwe Rally: Family Says Mbongeni Wasn\u2019t A CCC Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The family of a man who died after being severely stabbed by suspected ZANU PF members at a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) rally in Kwekwe last Sunday has denied reports that the deceased was a member of the opposition party led by Nelson Chamisa.<\/p>\n<p>Mbongeni Ncube who is leaving behind a two-year-old daughter was reportedly stabbed with a sharp object and died upon admission to Kwekwe General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen other people were injured while several vehicles were damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested 16 suspects, five of which have since appeared before the courts, while the remainder was released.<\/p>\n<p>A Chronicle news crew visited the deceased\u2019s family residence in Mbizo 9 and observed family members requesting CCC party members to stop turning the funeral into a rally. The state-run paper quotes one family member as saying:<\/p>\n<p>We want to mourn our son in peace and we cannot allow you to turn this funeral into a rally. We have already lost our son and there is no going back, so do not add more pain. Kindly leave this place and leave us to mourn one of our own.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Chronicle, the deceased\u2019s brother Future Ncube said Ncube was caught in a crossfire. Said Ncube:<\/p>\n<p>He was not someone who followed politics as far as we knew him. He did not follow CCC or any other party. He was just a quiet person who did not talk to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>He loved his beer, that is what I know. When we were told about this, we knew that he might have been drinking when the commotion started and he was caught in the cross fire.<\/p>\n<p>Another relative, Khulani Ncube said the family was now awaiting postmortem results.<\/p>\n<p>He said the family was still in shock and was finding it hard to accept that Mbonge has gone, \u201cbut it is God\u2019s plan and it has no appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ncube will be buried in Lower Gweru on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>More: Chronicle<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The family of a man who died after being severely stabbed by suspected ZANU PF members at a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) rally in Kwekwe last Sunday has denied reports that the deceased was a member of the opposition party led by Nelson Chamisa. Mbongeni Ncube who is leaving behind a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":55379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,10,15],"tags":[1493,2189,8265,8800,8821,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-55380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-parties","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-citizens-coalition-for-change-ccc","14":"tag-kwekwe-ccc-rally-violence","15":"tag-mbongeni-ncube","16":"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>Murder At CCC Kwekwe Rally: Family Says Mbongeni Wasn\u2019t A CCC Member - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The family of a man who died after being severely stabbed by suspected ZANU PF members at a Citizens Coalition for Chang ...\" \/>\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\/murder-at-ccc-kwekwe-rally-family-says-mbongeni-wasnt-a-ccc-member\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Murder At CCC Kwekwe Rally: Family Says Mbongeni Wasn\u2019t A CCC Member\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The family of a man who died after being severely stabbed by suspected ZANU PF members at a Citizens Coalition for Chang ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/murder-at-ccc-kwekwe-rally-family-says-mbongeni-wasnt-a-ccc-member\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-02T20:44:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-02T19:29:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/img-621fc5856a02e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1008\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"756\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/murder-at-ccc-kwekwe-rally-family-says-mbongeni-wasnt-a-ccc-member\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/murder-at-ccc-kwekwe-rally-family-says-mbongeni-wasnt-a-ccc-member\",\"name\":\"Murder At CCC Kwekwe Rally: Family Says Mbongeni Wasn\u2019t A CCC Member - 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