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Students, members of political organisations, trade unionists, women's rights activists, and ordinary citizens brought the capital, Harare, and the second city, Bulawayo, to a temporary halt during the lunch break, hooting car horns, shouting, whistling, clapping hands and beating any object to make a noise. The 15 students arrested were marching peacefully around the university's campus beating drums and pots, and singing revolutionary songs.
This protest methodology is an answer to the country’s government clear signals that it will not tolerate any peaceful demonstrations, declared a student as he distributed pamphlets to Harare residents about the growing hardships
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