{"id":56852,"date":"2022-04-03T18:30:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T16:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/murdered-ccc-activists-sister-abducted-by-suspected-zanu-pf-activists"},"modified":"2022-04-03T20:52:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T18:52:17","slug":"murdered-ccc-activists-sister-abducted-by-suspected-zanu-pf-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/murdered-ccc-activists-sister-abducted-by-suspected-zanu-pf-activists","title":{"rendered":"Murdered CCC Activist\u2019s Sister Abducted By Suspected ZANU PF Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Suspected ZANU PF activists who allegedly murdered a Citizens for Coalition for Change (CCC) Kwekwe activist in February are reportedly threatening witnesses against testifying.<\/p>\n<p>Mboneni Ncube was stabbed twice with a spear at a CCC rally held at Mbizo shopping centre and died on admission to Kwekwe Central Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased\u2019s sister, Judith Ncube, said she was kidnapped on Thursday evening by suspected ZANU PF activists who threatened to kill her if she continued demanding answers into Mboneni\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Standard, Judith said she now feared for her life following the abduction incident. She said:<\/p>\n<p>It was around 4 pm when the incident happened. They grabbed and bundled me into their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>They took me to a ZANU PF base in Kwekwe where they threatened to make me disappear if I kept on pressing for answers to the killing of my brother.<\/p>\n<p>His killers are known and all I want is closure and justice.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to the police and the case number is CRO\/04\/22.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking to The Standard, Judith\u2019s lawyer Darlington Marange of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum said:<\/p>\n<p>She identified some of the culprits that were implicated in the murder, including some known ruling party bigwigs.<\/p>\n<p>She has been saying that police are refusing to take the names of the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>We are now considering visiting the police to iron this out because it falls under their duties to take the report as is and to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>It appears there is some resistance but this is something that we have to iron out.<\/p>\n<p>We are also considering getting a peace order against the people who have been harassing her.<\/p>\n<p>She now lives in fear and we have to now take that route of a peace order to ensure her safety.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of her safety is now of paramount importance outside other legal routes that we want to take.<\/p>\n<p>Other people willing to testify against Ncube\u2019s killers were being harassed constantly, Mbizo MP-elect Settlement Chikwinya claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) arrested 16 ZANU PF youths for Ncube\u2019s murder but later released 11 of them.<\/p>\n<p>The late Ncube had recently remarried following the death of his first wife, with whom he had an eight-year-old daughter.<\/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. Suspected ZANU PF activists who allegedly murdered a Citizens for Coalition for Change (CCC) Kwekwe activist in February are reportedly threatening witnesses against testifying. Mboneni Ncube was stabbed twice with a spear at a CCC rally held at Mbizo shopping centre and died on admission to Kwekwe Central Hospital. The deceased\u2019s sister, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":56851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,10,15],"tags":[849,1683,1493,2189,8807,7205,8802,9258,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-56852","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-abduction","12":"tag-abductions","13":"tag-africa-press","14":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","15":"tag-ccc-kwekwe-rally","16":"tag-judith-ncube","17":"tag-mboneni-ncube","18":"tag-murder-at-ccc-rally","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>Murdered CCC Activist\u2019s Sister Abducted By Suspected ZANU PF Activists - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Suspected ZANU PF activists who allegedly murdered a Citizens for Coalition for Change (CCC) Kwekwe activist in February ...\" \/>\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\/murdered-ccc-activists-sister-abducted-by-suspected-zanu-pf-activists\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Murdered CCC Activist\u2019s Sister Abducted By Suspected ZANU PF Activists\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Suspected ZANU PF activists who allegedly murdered a Citizens for Coalition for Change (CCC) Kwekwe activist in February ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/murdered-ccc-activists-sister-abducted-by-suspected-zanu-pf-activists\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-03T16:30:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-03T18:52:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/04\/img-6249ecbb0bc9e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"958\" \/>\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\/murdered-ccc-activists-sister-abducted-by-suspected-zanu-pf-activists\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/murdered-ccc-activists-sister-abducted-by-suspected-zanu-pf-activists\",\"name\":\"Murdered CCC Activist\u2019s Sister Abducted By Suspected ZANU PF Activists - 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