Marching Wednesdays seems to be the country's new fad since the citizen movement #ThisFlag and civil servants' strike shut the nation down on the 6th of July. After weeks of Zanu PF demonstrators dominating the streets of the capital, pro-change protesters had their turn to march against bond notes, a local US dollar-backed currency proposed as a measure to resolve the country's cash shortages and stimulate exports. Unfortunately for many, bond notes, among their many other complications, sound like an attempt to bring back the defunct Zimbabwe dollar through the back door. And this Wednesday's marchers weren't having any of it, so off they went, led by the Tajamuka group ("We don't want" in local Shona) to deliver their petition to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development at the (not-so) New Government Complex.
But things got ugly, as they often do.
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