The Sunday News
Vusumuzi Dube, Senior Reporter
FORMER Bulawayo East legislator and MDC Alliance national chair Ms Thabitha Khumalo was on Saturday morning reportedly attacked by armed robbers at her Sauerstown residence.
Ms Khumalo, was recalled from Parliament — where she was under the proportional representation banner for the MDC-Alliance — after MDC-T said she had ceased to represent their interests in the legislative assembly.
Contacted for comment, Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube, however, said they had not yet received a report on the alleged attack.
However, the party’s Bulawayo provincial spokesperson, Mr Swithern Chirowodza said they do not believe that the people who attacked Ms Khumalo were robbers but that the move was politically motivated.
“This was done in a way that is similar to what befell some of our party members in 2019 and last year.
Thabitha Khumalo in hospital
“Clearly those attacks can never be similar unless they are linked therefore our position is that these were not robbers but this was a politically motivated attack,” said Mr Chirowodza.
He said Ms Khumalo lost several items including a television set, laptop and three cellphones.
She was reportedly treated and discharged at a local hospital, for various injuries sustained during the attack.
