The International Cross-Border Traders Association (ICTA)
has advised all its members and travellers to avoid Zimbabwean borders and
unnecessary movements.
The association says it still needs to assess whether it is
safe for travellers to embark on their trips.
This after several riots on the streets of Zimbabwe, on day
two of the national shutdown, and the Movement for Democratic Change’s (MDC)
headquarters in Harare being set alight on Tuesday morning.
Hundreds of people continue to demonstrate against the
escalating economic crisis, which has been aggravated by a massive fuel hike of
150%.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on the weekend that
the price of petrol will increase to around R43 per litre, the highest fuel
price in the world.
Reports from Zimbabwe say several people were killed and
more than 20 others received gunshot wounds during anti-government protests on
Monday.
The Zimbabwe government has labelled protesters terrorists
and says it has arrested more than 200 people.
Zimbabwe’s security minister, Owen Ncube, has told state
media that lives were lost during Monday’s protests, but he gave no figure of
how many.
He said the violence, which saw shops looted and property
destroyed, were acts of terrorism intended to undermine President Mnangagwa’s
international re-engagement efforts.
The private Newsday puts the death toll at five, saying the
fatalities occurred during clashes with police, though the police have not
confirmed this.
Rights groups say at least 26 people received gunshot
wounds during Monday’s protests.
They are reporting that soldiers assaulted residents of
several Harare townships on Monday night, and that these assaults were
continuing on Tuesday in the suburb of Highfield.
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