Touts popularly known as "mandimbandimba" yesterday ran amok in the city and assaulted kombi crews at the Charge Office bus terminus for resisting to pay protection fees. This comes shortly after Zanu-PF chairman for Chadcombe-Msasa district Cde Itai Badze, was also assaulted by the touts at Fourth Street rank for interceding on behalf of kombi operators.
Police spokesperson chief inspector James Sabau said they held a meeting yesterday with representatives of operators to stop the skirmishes.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article