Youths of MDC Alliance trained to upsurge against Govt, claims Linda Masarira

A Zimbabwean politician, Linda Masarira has claimed that MDC Alliance youths got training in Zambia and South Africa to rise against the Government in the event Nelson Chamisa (the current MDC Alliance President) lost the July 30 elections.

The spokesperson of Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T, Linda Masarira opined that whilst making submissions before the Commission of Inquiry into the violence that resulted in the death of six people on August 1 after soldiers were deployed to quell protests.

"It would be naive for anyone to think that the MDC Alliance do not have radical and militant youths who trained under the civil society banner which are stakeholders of the MDC Alliance. I can speak with confidence and evidence that there are two groups who were trained to lead protest though it is said that they were trained to uprise in a non-violent manner, which is contrary to the actions that prevailed on August 1," Masarira said.

"The MDC Alliance believes the Government can be persuaded to a government of national unity or to accede to certain demands from the illegal demonstrations that they did couple with the ongoing demonization of Zimbabwe. We have an opposition that believes in hate speech and insults, terrorizing of women and the suffering of the masses to woo protest votes," Masarira further added, as reported by Pindula News.