JULY 2017
voter registration process on 17 June. *Peter Nyahuni
and *Brian Shava were among the demonstrators at
Rimuka in Kadoma West. Tsitsi Mairosi and Tedious
Murwira are alleged to have been leading the ZanuPF
youths.
attend the presidential youth interface that was held in
Chinhoyi. Makamure ordered that every household
should send a family representative to witness the rally.
It is alleged that households were forced to fund village
representatives to the youth interface rally each
contributing $1. Makamure is said to have threatened
villagers as he used a village register to take details of
people who were going to attend the rally and those who
had contributed a $1.
Chirebvu villagers were intimidated and threatened by
village heads at a village meeting on 17 July. The
Hurungwe West 2008 political violence incidents were
used to intimidate and threaten local people. Villagers
were forced to form and register to be part of cell
structures. National identification numbers, names, ages
and sex were included in registers and taken to the
ZanuPF district chairperson Morgan Masewe’s office. It
is alleged that at Chirebvu village, ZanuPF vice
chairperson, John Maheya told villagers that the
information gathered will be given to the central
intelligence office. Village head Peter Masuku chaired
the meeting and told the gathered people not to be
associated with opposition parties but to only support
ZanuPF leadership.
ZanuPF chairperson in Rusvingo district in Zvimba
West, Reason Alifasi, approached school heads of
Kawondera secondary school, Chirau Hall and
Kawondera primary schools on 28 July and allegedly
ordered them to contribute towards the presidential
youth interface rally. The contributions were to be
channelled towards ferrying people from Zvimba to
Chinhoyi University of Technology. It is said that
initially contributions were stipulated at $5 but owing to
the cash crisis the amount was deemed exorbitant.
Schoolheads and teachers then agreed to each contribute
$2. School heads also received an instruction from the
district school inspector Andrew Matsikiti ordering them
to attend the rally in Chinhoyi.
A meeting was held on 18 July to discuss how ZanuPF
youths would be allocated pieces of land. At the meeting
in Sanyati, Milverton village Stephen Rutsito, a ZanuPF
supporter and war veteran, intimidated *Lovemore
Shambare, a primary school head. Shambare was
recently allocated land at Milverton village but this did
not please some ZanuPF members and as a result Rutsito
accused Shambare of being an MDC-T activist. It is also
alleged that Shambare was told that he would lose the
land if he was found supporting opposition parties.
Rutsito urged all teachers not to support MDC-T, he told
the gathering that all opposition supporters would not
benefit in the land allocation program.
A Methodist Church in Zimbabwe diocese in Chinhoyi
quarterly gathering was disrupted after police denied the
congregation a clearance for their scheduled meeting
saying it clashed with the presidential youth interface
rally. It is alleged that the meeting which was being held
in the church premises was disrupted by police then a
church steward, *Tinaye Zindove, was sent by church
elders to negotiate with the officer in charge at Chinhoyi
central police station. It alleged that the meeting later on
proceeded. Vendors were ordered to stop business and
also attend the rally.
Category of incident
Assault
Theft/looting
Discrimination
Unlawful Detention
Intimidation/harassment
A ZanuPF activist from Kutama village in Zvimba
South, Dafter Peter, allegedly forced teachers to attend a
meeting, which was hosted at Kutama Day Primary
School. At the meeting, held on 20 July, he also
demanded personal details such as names and national
identification numbers. The teachers were forced to form
a ZanuPF cell structure. It is alleged that Dafter warned
teachers that the 2018 elections will be a tough and
perilous time for MDC-T and other opposition parties.
On 28 July Chegutu East ZanuPF chairperson, Fanuel
Makamure, is alleged to have been forcing people to
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