Border Gezi: Zanu (PF) candidate for Bindura
There have been numerous claims that Border Gezi is orchestrating the violence in Mashonaland Central as a whole, and reports of his presence at the scene either immediately before or after several instances of violence. In one example, Gezi "forcibly" addressed a rally of Bindura University students on 6 May, despite a written prohibition on political activities on campus. He warned students not to support MDC and the Zanu (PF) supporters with him are said to have taken list of MDC supporters. Oliver is a student at the university. He was approached by Zanu (PF) supporters and a policeman when he was playing football. Some of the students had MDC T-shirts and these were taken. On 8 May the Zanu (PF) supporters returned.

A guy knocked on my door (at the hostel) and greeted me with my name although I don't know him. He claimed he is MDC and used the name of a youth organiser and persuaded me to go out of the gates. Outside I found there were two more guys. The Zanu guys tried to drag me to nearby bushes. They failed to move me but as I tried to escape they attacked. I started screaming and calling the guards who did not come because they did not hear. I received blows and was kicked on the ground. . . . I tried to fight back and they ran away. One of the attackers (John, a councillor), an older man, was seen by other students at the Gezi rally. But the others were local residents.

The police took a statement, but have taken no action. Reports from Forum monitors in the area indicate that one of Oliver’s attackers, John, the chairman of Bindura council, is a war veteran and the commander of a base at Feather’s Inn in Manhenga and that the funds for this operation are coming from Border Gezi. Other members of the gang are said to be Chidzwa, a war veteran, a councillor called Timozo, Lovemore Manyembere, a youth and Joshua Kasaka, a close relative of Chimutengwende.

According to the MDC candidate for Bindura, John was also a member of a "committee" whose task was to kill him on the orders of Gezi.

Border Gezi and others had plotted to kill me. There was a meeting at Tendai Hall in Bindura which lasted two hours in early April. There they were drawing up a hit squad and making a list of priorities. They didn’t agree at that meeting so they had another one at the Kimba Relief Hotel. This was a four hour meeting. Apparently they finally agreed and high on the list was my head and whoever killed me was to get $300 000.

The MDC candidate learned of the plan when Tinashe, one of the men who had been assigned the task of killing him, refused to take part and came to warn him of the plan. This person joined the MDC and is himself now in fear of his life because, he says: "I have all the information about Zanu (PF)". The candidate believes his brother was murdered in his place.

After failing to kill me, they decided to unleash the terror on my family. They attacked our house in Mukumbura and beat my father. He now has two broken fingers. They kidnapped my brother and murdered him.

On 10 May, a shop at Gomo business centre belonging to the candidate was destroyed and looted by a group of Zanu (PF) supporters who had been attending a rally at Dande shops addressed by Border Gezi. On this occasion, Tinashe was beaten.. He was waiting at the bus stop when a Zanu (PF) member saw him. The rally was diverted into an attack upon him and other MDC members.

Following this assault, Tinashe fled across the border to Mozambique to escape; he claims that even there he was still under threat from high-ranking members of Zanu (PF) who want to kill him. A relative who had also fled to Mozambique was captured by Mozambican police who had been paid to capture Tinashe. He was later freed when they discovered they had got the wrong man, but he was shown a letter which he claims was sent to the police by a senior minister. He said the Mozambicans had been told that MDC was like Renamo and they had been paid $25,000 to kill Tinashe.