Violence against opposition party office bearers and supporters

The car drove for a while, but I don’t know where to. We passed through Marimba on the way. They dropped me inside a Durawall house, belonging to Thembani. They are operating from this house in Msasa, but I do not know exactly where. They began beating me and pouring cold water from a bucket over me, saying "You are an MDC member". They forced me to say more about the MDC, including the whereabouts of other members and the leaders, telling them where I was staying, and demanding to know why I refused to wear a Zanu (PF) T-shirt.

There were at least 11 of them in the house. They took me into the toilet, and made me stand on a square of iron sheet (about 30cm by 30 cm). They then connected jump leads to the sheet, and passed electricity through it. They made me stand on it for 2-3 hours. Sometimes I fell down, and sometimes I lay on the walls. Then they brought me out and told me to take off all my clothes. I did so, and they told me to lie on the lawn. Then they said "Today is the end of your life if you don’t tell us more about the MDC". But I refused, and when they realized that they couldn’t make me, they told me to go into the house.

They locked me in a room, and I spent the whole day there. Thembani came at around 4-5 am, with beer and meat, to give to her boys. They told her that they had captured one of us, and she said to them "He’s all yours – you do whatever you want to him". They replied that they were "still dealing with me". At around 8.00 pm, they brought me out, and said "We’re going to torture you for the last time; we don’t care whether you die or not." They beat me on my private parts, using fists and kicking with their boots. Then they said that they were going to release me, but told me not to tell anyone that I had been abducted for the whole day. They took me, and dropped me of about 150m away from my home at about 10 or 11 pm. I walked from there to my house, and told my wife that I had been beaten by Zanu (PF) members.