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RRRV2023|Provincial Highlights
ZIMBABWE PEACE PROJECT MONTHLY MONITORING REPORT
AUGUST 2021
In Chingwizi there is still no nearby source of potable
water and the relocated villagers walk for several
kilometres to the nearest water source.
Manicaland
Zanu PF continued with its activities and even went on to conduct
internal elections in some of the wards to choose branch members.
The activities happened in defiance of the COVID-19 lockdown
measures and ZPP noted that there was no social distancing,
masking up properly and sanitizing of hands by those who
participated.
Intra-party conflict within ZanuPF continued in the province and
ZanuPF went on to continue to conduct meetings despite the
lockdown being in place. In one of the meetings reported by
NewsDay, party provincial chairman Mike Madiro exchanging harsh
words with Mutare district co-ordination committee (DCC)
chairperson Benali Tard.
The meeting was meant to prepare for this year’s Zanu PF national
conference to be held in Bindura, Mashonaland Central province.
Masvingo
Similar to other provinces, Zanu PF continued conducting political
activities and in one incident in Masvingo West, King Mine area,
one Lydia Sigauke called for a physical meeting claiming that the
top leadership of the Zanu PF party was scheduled to visit the area.
Sigauke then gathered over 150 people at King Mine Hall where no
COVID-19 safety protocols were observed.
The meeting was allegedly for purposes of putting together a Zanu
PF district committee and the event went ahead undisturbed by the
police.
In Chingwizi there is still no nearby source of potable water and the
relocated villagers walk for several kilometres to the nearest water
source. There are no proper schools after government officials
allegedly announced to the villagers that they were to be relocated
to another place. The villagers are living in abject poverty and the
COVID-19 situation has left them more vulnerable. Some of the
villagers told ZPP that they intend to return to their ancestral land,
from where they got evicted to pave way for the Tokwe Mukosi
Dam, claiming that it was better to ‘die from floods than hunger’.
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