This has led to an eleventh hour decision by the country′s opposition parties to cancel all its marches which they had planned for Friday in Harare and other parts of the country until the lapse of the two weeks.

The Harare administration has likely been forced to act after admitting embarrassment as the visiting vice president of Sierra Leone Victor Bockarie Foh was caught up in tear gas and water cannon fights between protestors and anti-riot police last week.