#PROVINCIAL OUTLOOK
MASH
WEST
IN KADOMA
CENTRAL, AT
TANDARA SHOPPING
CENTRE, A
BUTCHERY
OPERATOR, WAS
REPORTEDLY
EVICTED FROM A
RENTED PREMISE
FOR ALLEGEDLY
HOSTING CCC
ACTIVISTS.
Mashonaland West witnessed an increase in cases of
violation of property rights and intra-party violence. During
the ongoing mobile national identity documents exercise,
traditional leaders in some parts of the province forced
villagers to contribute money and livestock in return for
proof of residence required when applying for national
documents.
This April, the Registrar General’s Department began its sixmonth countrywide mobile exercise to issue critical national
documents like birth and death certificates, and national
identity cards.
In Chinhoyi there were cases of intra-party violence during a
Zanu PF Youth election and in the process, rival factions
traded threats and blows.
In Kadoma, there were politically motivated clashes
involving artisanal miners. The rival members of artisanal
mining gangs, who all had vehicles bearing President
Mnangagwa and Zanu PF branding, attacked each other with
machetes and knifes. Police were called to the scene to
contain the situation but they refused to attend when they
realized the clashes were political. An armed unit of the
anti-riot police had to be called in.
In Kadoma Central, at Tandara Shopping Centre, a butchery
operator, was reportedly evicted from a rented premise for
allegedly hosting CCC activists.
In Chegutu West’s Ward 9, the March by-election Zanu PF
losing candidate Mitchel Chiyanike was assaulted by fellow
party supporters led by one Primrose Makore, who accused
Chiyanike of stealing and unfairly distributing regalia.
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