MDC-A leaders were speaking from the podium on Sunday 27 February 2022 when more than a dozen thugs later identified as Zanu PF supporters launched an attack which left over 22 people injured and one person dead.
On November 12, 2023, in Mashonaland East, on the outskirts of Harare, the dead body of Tapfumaneyi Masaya was found at the intersection of Arcturus Road and lobho Road, in Cleveland area. Tapfumaneyi Masaya, a 51-year-old pastor and a political activist, part of the political campaign team and an aspiring legislator of the opposition party Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) ahead of the December 9, 2023, parliamentary by-elections.