Unidentified men assault Tendai Biti's driver, threaten CDF launch

Armed men in unmarked vehicles besieged a prominent Zimbabwean opposition figure's offices, assaulting staff and issuing explicit death threats tied to an upcoming political launch.

CDF offices stormed by armed, unidentified men

• Tendai Biti's offices got surrounded by men in unregistered vehicles.
• Assailants beat his driver and the accompanying women with batons.
• AK-47 rifles were reportedly brandished during the attack.
• Attackers explicitly threatened to kill the CDF convener.

Chilling threats referenced past political violence

• Assailants vowed that CDF will never launch in Zimbabwe.
• They invoked what happened to Professor Lovemore Madhuku.
• Three vehicles tailed Biti's car after he left the offices.
• Contact with Biti and other CDF leaders was subsequently lost.

State involvement signs are hard to ignore

• Unmarked cars and police vehicles later surrounded the street.
• Officers in both uniform and plain clothes were spotted.
• Anyone approaching Biti's law firm faced aggressive intimidation.
• Even regular clients visiting the offices got harassed.

CDF frames this within a broader crackdown pattern

• Activists opposing Zimbabwe's 2030 constitutional agenda face escalating threats.
• Abductions, torture, and assaults have targeted opposition figures recently.
• CDF urged SADC and the African Union to intervene urgently.
• The forum called on all Zimbabweans to stay vigilant.