Police arrested trade union leaders and blocked streets and the main square of the capital to thwart an anti-government march, and the main labor federation apparently called off a planned nationwide strike at the last minute. Police bundled leaders of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions into vans as they tried to start a procession. Protesters made no attempt to regroup in the capital, where banks, shops and factories opened as usual.
See "Police Arrest Union Leaders in Zimbabwe", Associated Press, The New York Times, September 12, 2006