In this section, we analyse the trends of politically motivated human
rights violations across the country.
This is part of the ZPP campaign to have citizens resist, reject and
report violence ahead of the 2023 election.
The campaign, #RRRV2023 is specifically designed as an early warning
system of political violence with the view that relevant agents can
adopt preventive measures.
2023
This is because ZPP has noted how community members are used to
mete out violence against each and the moment they unite against
violence, peaceful contestation is likely to prevail. So, the #RRRV2023
campaign, separates politically motivated human rights violations
from all the other forms of violations, and using a highly sophisticated
data analysis tool, ZPP maps the severity of the violations to give an
indication of the political volatility of each province.
AS NOTED IN THE GRAPH,
HARARE PROVINCE HAS
THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF
POLITICALLY MOTIVATED
HUMAN RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS WITH A TOTAL
OF 22 POLITICALLY
MOTIVATED VIOLATIONS,
15 OF WHICH ARE SERIOUS
AND FIVE ARE SEVERE,
As noted in the graph, Harare province has the highest number of
politically motivated human rights violations with a total of 22
politically motivated violations, 15 of which are serious and five are
severe, and there is one fatality. The province took over from
Mashonaland Central which had the highest of 17 political motivated
human rights violations in May. Following Harare is Mashonaland
Central, which has 15 politically motivated human rights violations.
While tracking the number of incidences is important ZPP also takes
time to analyse the environment which has become toxic and also
volatile which is ripe ground for the perpetration of more human
rights abuses and the organisations believes as the country inches
towards 2023 many of the incidents are also going to be gross.
It is interesting to note that in all the provinces, there were
pronounced incidents of political activity by Zanu PF and CCC, with
supporters of CCC being the majority of the victims.
The prevalence of politically motivated violence in Harare is a result of
the violence that occurred in Nyatsime and Chitungwiza following the
brutal murder of CCC activist Ali while in Mashonaland Central,
Manicaland and Mashonaland East, it is a result of the earlier
mentioned systematic efforts by Zanu PF to shut down space for the
opposition, well ahead of the official campaigning period for the 2023
elections.
See Provincial outlook below.
Using a highly sophisticated data analysis tool, ZPP maps the severity of the violations to give an
indication of the political volatility of each province.
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14
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2
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13
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Fatal
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Mild
serious
severe
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