SAPES Trust is contemplating suing the police for their handling of investigations into the bombing of its premises in October last year by unknown people amid indications that there has been no breakthrough over two months later.
The attack occurred on the night of October 27, 2025 at the Sapes Trust seminar room in Belgravia, which was due to host a press conference by activists, who are opposed to Zanu PF’s push to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term by two years.
A letter by police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) chief director Patrick Majuta to Sapes Trust dated December 15, the law enforcement agency confirmed that it was investigating the bombing.
It said an accelerant was used to cause the incendiary fire and the accelerant was identified as petrol.
Sapes Trust yesterday said the time it has taken to account for the suspects raised suspicions.
"The time it has taken so far to bring the culprits to book is more than sufficient proof that this is a case of state collusion," Sapes Trust said in a statement.
The organisation said only a state-related entity could have carried out such terrorist act given that Ford Ranger vehicles without number plates were involved and the possession of military arsenal.
"The presence, thereafter, that morning of dozens of ZRP riot squad, who ensured that there would be no press conference that morning," Sapes Trust said.
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Opposition leaders were scheduled to hold a press conference at the Sapes Trust offices to rally Zimbabweans to reject plans by Zanu PF to extend Mnangagwa despite the constitution presidents to two five-year terms.
Mnangagwa is serving his last term according to the constitution after he rose to power in 2017 following a coup that toppled Robert Mugabe.
Police blocked the Sapes press conference and a similar event that had been scheduled for Bulawayo on the same day.
Sapes Trust said the pace of the investigations raised suspicion of a cover up.
The organisation revealed that typed witness statements from early December, including one from the abducted guard, have not been provided by investigating officers, hampering the process.
