Midlands
In a case of intra party factional fighting, a Zanu-PF activist Fasi Chamu of Chamu village Zhombe
who is a political commissar within the party convened a meeting on 20 May 2015 at Chamu village.
At the meeting, he demanded and proposed a motion for the ouster of Ernest Dharani a Zanu-PF
councillor for ward 6 because of his close links with the gamatox.
On 14 May 2015, an MDC-T member of Sukamini village Vungu was denied access to fertilizer
supplied by Windmill by George Nkiwani a Zanu-PF activist. On the day in question, Windmill had
tasked Nkiwani to write down the names of people in need of fertilizer. Nkiwani is believed to have
omitted the victim because of his political inclination.
Mashonaland Central
On 3 May 2015 Councillors Dominic Chimuka and Michelle Kasere of ward 33 forced church leaders
to attend a Zanu PF meeting at Glendale. The church ministers who were more than 40 were
ordered to tell their church followers to support the Zanu PF party during sermons. They were
promised stands at a cheap price in return.
Guruve North constituency witnessed people being forced to attend Zanu PF meetings in different
areas. On 11 May people were forced to attend a meeting at Negomo Primary school for cell
restructuring. The people were also being warned against a new party suspected to be led by former
Vice President Mujuru. The perpetrators were Berius Muzinde and Daniel Mucheri. People were
forced to attend another meeting at Gwakwe Primary school on 20 May for cell restructuring and to
conduct a post mortem of what had happened at the Independence Day celebrations. The party
chairperson Sabao Chinyoka was in charge. Maxwell Nyagomo forced people to attend a Zanu PF
meeting at Nyamuseve farm in ward 21 on 23 May 2015.
In Bindura North people labelled gamatox wrote a letter to local legislator Toendepi Matangira to
lodge a complaint against ward chairperson Abraham Mhembere for labelling them gamatox. During
a meeting addressed by Matangira in Muonwe village on 23 May a war veteran was accused of
leading the people to join gamatox. The war veteran and the other 3 members denied being
gamatox. The four wanted the district committee to be voted out of office for labelling them. The
legislator objected to the suggestion because the committee had led him to win. The war veteran
was accused of influencing people to demand the expulsion of the committee and for being
gamatox. Matangira indicated that he would write to the war veterans association to have the war
veteran expelled from the association.
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
MDC-T
ZANU PF
Figure 1: May 2015 Intra-party Violations - Percentage of Reported Cases
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