Man commits suicide after being robbed by soldiers
The late Cloudy Tasukwa with one of his children who have been orphaned
By Zimbabwe Observer reporter
A Chitungwiza man left his family over the weekend to go and sell his car to feed his four children and wife. Hours later, he returned home a broken man, with neither money nor car. His spirits were shattered. He was engulfed by the spirit of death as he could not stomach losing his $US 1 200 to soldiers who robbed him of his last cash at Huruyadzo Shopping Centre.
The late Cloudy Tasukwa is lying cold and stiff at a Chitungwiza hospital after he committed suicide by drinking poison. This followed after soldiers descended in the township over the weekend and indiscriminately attacked revelers at Huruyadzo Shopping Centre. The soldiers confiscated his $US 1200 he had raised by selling his only car in an effort to put food on the table. That was the only money between him and starvation.
His repeated pleas with the soldiers to give him back his money earned him more slaps and kicks. His grieving brother Lancet Tasukwa told Zimbabwe Observer that the late Cloudy could not take it anymore after being beaten up for demanding his money back.
“Akazviuraya nekuti aiti ndiyo mari yaainge achitarisira kuraramisa mhuri, atengesa mota. Saka ainge asisina pekutangira,” said his brother Tasukwa. (Loosely translated as, he committed suicide because he lost his last money which was for the upkeep of his family. He didn’t have anything to fall back on. President Mnangagwa unleashed soldiers in the streets and villages of Zimbabwe in the name of enforcing a COVID 19 curfew, but citizens suspect that the government was trying to squash the impending mass protest scheduled for 31 July. Cloudy is survived by his wife Rachel Zvoushe, four children Faith, Blessed, Natasha and Natalie.
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