Speaking in the Zimbabwe-Rhodesia House of Assembly on 15 August 1979, Mr. M. Machiya, UANC member for Matabeleland North, asked the Minister of Law and Order "whether he is aware of a very sinister heritage which we have acquired from the previous administration ... some torture chambers which are in Selukwe at a place called Donga. There we have pits dug in the ground where tribespeople are collected and electrically shot in their genitals in the pits. By the time some of those people come out, some have been rendered completely sterile." (Debates 15.8.79)
Mr. James Bassopo Moyo, the Treasurer of the People's Movement who was released from detention in August (see FOCUS 24 p.12), told the *Observer* in London that following his arrest in Salisbury he was taken blindfolded to a prison. He remained there for the first 24 days, sleeping naked on a wet concrete floor. He said he received food only twice in the 24 days although he was given water daily. He was not allowed to wash, exercise or read and was held in solitary confinement (*Obs. 23.9.79*)
