The ManicaPost
Ray Bande Senior Reporter
In an unfolding real life drama that reads like a gothic horror movie script, 7PM is now a scary hour for Sakubva’s OTS Section residents as they are occasionally pelted with invisible objects by unseen assailants, The Weekender reports.
For close to three years now, about 10 households of this densely populated section of Sakubva have been knocking on the doors of the police and the local authority in search of a solution for their predicament.
When The Weekender visited the area on Wednesday morning, anxious residents mobbed this news crew, with each of them giving accounts of how they have endured being pelted by unseen objects.
Broken window glasses and damaged rooftops are testimony of the said assaults.
Alexander Musa said: “Yesterday I was sitting in the kitchen when I heard the sound of a stone hitting the roof hard. It was around 7pm. I had heard about these issues before so I panicked and ran out of the house.
“I could not see anyone outside. I am renting this house and I have heard about this issue, but all along I had never encountered it.”
Forty-one-year-old Simba Kasai, who stays with her three children said, “We have been experiencing this for close to three years now. It all started at Number 311, where occupants of that house would actually see fire being lit by an invisible person.
“Later on, they would hear sounds of stones being thrown onto the roof. The owner of the place (name supplied) has since relocated to Chinyausunzi, here in Sakubva.
“Then we also started experiencing the same mysterious incidents at our apartments. More than 10 households are experienced this and it is scary,” said Kasai.
Efforts to track down the owner of the said property proved fruitless as she was not around at her new address.
Tsitsi Muzondi (31)’s family that includes her husband and four children is also affected.
She said, “When this first happened, we all thought these were mischievous children playing outside, but we later realised that this had nothing to do with the kids.
“My husband would go out to try and investigate but he would find no one. The objects continue raining on us. Our car’s windscreen was smashed by those things.
“We went to council and approached the police, but we are yet to get any assistance.”
Muzondi said she once consulted a traditional healer, who came and ‘assisted’ her family.
“After that, the attacks stopped for about six months, before resuming again,” she said.
Marita Manyama of Number 308, OTS Section said, “We are passionately appealing to Government and Mutare City Council to help us find a solution, otherwise we will continue living in fear. Our children will be traumatised as long as this thing persists.”
Zimbabwe Traditional Healers’ Association (Zinatha) president, George Kandiero said a spiritually gifted person needs to cleanse the area.
“Such things are common in areas where something wrong would have been committed in the past. All our areas have a past but if there was a past transgression, cleansing should be done for the sake of those residents’ peace.
“The process of kuhaka mweya (engaging the spirit of a dead person) should be done by a spiritually strong person, otherwise they might end up suffering the consequences of vengeance from the aggrieved spirit,” said Kandiero.
He said such issues do not need the intervention of law enforcement agents.
