the changing nature of political violence in Zimbabwe wherein intra party violence is intensifying
due to factional conflicts.
Analysis of Violence Victims by Gender
Analysis of Violence Perpetrators by Gender
From the infographs above it is evident that there are more female victims than there are
perpetrators, a trend that is shared by their male counterparts. There is however a distinct
difference in terms of the actual figures where there are more male perpetrators in terms of
count than there are female, the same goes for female victims, who are numerically less than
the male.
Figure 1: Distribution of Violations by Party across Provinces
Province
Bulawayo
Harare
Manicaland
Mash Central
Mash East
Mash West
Masvingo
Mat North
Mat South
Midlands
MDC-T
1
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
ZANU PF
1
1
3
7
6
7
6
0
1
6
Total Violations
13
23
33
38
37
26
29
9
9
33
Mashonaland Central province recorded more violations during the month of September. This
could be indicative of the factional politics within the ruling Zanu PF party. Mashonaland Central
is home to the former Vice President Mujuru and with the rise in factional conflicts, it is
assumed that her followers and sympathisers in the province are targets of continuing purges.
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