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To show this trend, in
November 2020, the Zimbabwe
Republic Police (ZRP), Zanu PF,
the Zimbabwe National Army
(ZNA), war veterans, and
municipal police, contributed a
combined 63.26 percent of all
human rights violations. This
November, the ZRP, ZNA, Zanu
PF, war veterans and other state
agents contribute to a
staggering nearly 86 percent of
all violations and this is a
cause for concern considering
that the police and the army
have a mandate to protect, and
not violate citizens. It points to
the presence of a police state,
where the law and law
enforcement agents are used to
protect the interests of the few
in positions of authority. For
the third month Zanu PF leads
the list, having contributed to
about 54 percent of all the
violations and the ZRP follows
at 26 percent. Zanu PF, being
the ruling party, wields
influence in government
institutions, including those
responsible for state security.
So, by having the ruling party
and the police leading the list
of human rights violators, it is
apparent the human rights
situation in Zimbabwe has
deteriorated to levels where
citizens are on their own.
The main opposition MDC
Alliance contributed to just
below four percent of all
violations and one case of intra
party violence against Zanu PF’s
10 cases. Just as in November
2020, there was a significant
use of aid as a political tool as
government rolled out its
Pfumvudza inputs scheme. ZPP
notes that apart from the
widespread decline in the
volumes of inputs government
distributed, there was more
discrimination of those
When the rights of the individual
– even of a few individuals – are
suppressed, there cannot be
respect for the rights of the
people as a whole. The State
begins to govern against its
citizens,
rather
than with
Torched:
A woman
in Zvimba
lost her two houses and property in a suspected
politically
motivated
arson.
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them…”
JOSHUA
NKOMO
believed to be supporters and
sympathisers of the opposition
and Zanu PF once again used its
influence in central and local
government to influence the
distribution. For example, on 9
November in Zvimba West in
Kanyemba Village Ward 12,
suspected Zanu PF activists
torched a house belonging to a
woman believed to be an
opposition political supporter
to spite her for receiving
Pfumvudza inputs.
During the distribution of
inputs, Zanu PF activists
reportedly threatened the
victim, claiming that she was
not entitled to government
inputs because she did not
support the ruling party. It did
not take days before suspected
arsonists burned her houses,
and in the process, she lost
farming inputs, clothing and
other property.
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