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Food and Water Security
Most cities in the country have been without running water for months or they have
had sporadic access. Many people in cities are having to rely on open wells and
boreholes, while those without the means rely on community boreholes. Such
unsanitary conditions are a health hazard not just in the case of disease outbreaks
but climate change advocates have spoken against the risk of too many boreholes.
Water access points are becoming politically charged and known opposition political
figures are being denied access to water. CCC supporters had to pay $2 for a 20litre bucket of water in Kadoma Central's Rimuka neighbourhood ward 5. Regardless
of their political standing, every individual has a right to obtain clean and safe water.
On 20 August 2022, in Chimanimàni East, ward 15 councilor Panganai Chirongera
told more than 200 people at a pfumvudza inputs meeting at Ngangu Football
Ground that they were supposed to vote for the Zanu PF leader President
Emmerson Mnangagwa in the elections in 2023. This was because they were getting
agricultural inputs, and only Zanu PF structures were responsible for the pfumvudza
beneficiary list. Pfumvudza is a crop production intensification approach which was
introduced by the government in the 2020-21 farming season to ensure the efficient
use of inputs and labour on a small area of land. Under the programme government
funds maize and fertiliser inputs to farmers.
On 6 August in Mazowe South at Rukeko shopping centre in ward 33, Zanu PF
Councillor Mitchel Kasere called for a ward meeting to register people under the
pfumvudza presidential farming inputs scheme. Katsere discriminated against
opposition CCC supporters and recorded names and ID numbers of known ruling
party supporters only. Opposition supporters were not allowed to register. A CCC
activist and other opposition party supporters were discriminated against because
of their political affiliation.
The Zimbabwe Peace Project
Monthly Monitoring Report