In spite of the on-going SADC-brokered dialogue in South Africa, two MDC activists were last week murdered by Zanu PF supporters.

The body of Fungisai Ziome, an MDC activist who was abducted at her home on 23 July 2008, was discovered in a maize field on Saturday morning in Glendale, Mazowe South constituency, in Mashonaland Central province.

Ziome, of Ward 13 in Glendale, was an active MDC supporter who was abducted by Zanu PF supporters who then mutilated, burnt and dumped her body, which was later, discovered in the early hours of Saturday by passers-by in the area.

A report was made about the murder to the police but no arrests have been made. The MDC and Ziome's relatives are waiting for a post mortem before burial arrangements are made.

Meanwhile, Kingsley Muteta, a police officer, died at Harare's Avenues Clinic on Saturday after being beaten by a mob of 12 Zanu PF supporters at his parents' homestead in Mudzi.

Muteta who was working in Harare, had visited his mother when he was attacked by the mob, which accused him of visiting his mother when he knew she was a known MDC activist.

He was taken to Kotwa Hospital in Mudzi and later transferred to Harare where he died on Saturday due to the injuries that he sustained.

His body is also waiting for a post mortem before he is buried.

The MDC has asked Zanu PF to show its sincerity to the dialogue process by stopping violence, disbanding all militia bases and prosecuting all perpetrators of political violence.

The deaths show that there is no sincerity on the part of Zanu PF. The death of the two brings to 122 the number of MDC activists who have been murdered since the March 29 harmonised elections.

Statement issued by Tapiwa Mashakada, Acting Information and Publicity Secretary, Movement for Democratic Change, July 30 2008