ZIMBABWE PEACE PROJECT
MONTHLY MONITORING REPORT
JULY 2021
2.3 Zanu PF
Mobilising
& Polad vehicles
The handing out of vehicles worth over a million
dollars to minor political players under the Political
Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform is just another failure
by the Office of the President, which is responsible for
the public funds used, to prioritise critical social
service areas that are in genuine need of investment.
Somewhere in this report, we have a table that shows
what a million US dollars can do to support some of
Zimbabwe’s critical sectors.
We also note with concern the rise in inter-party and
intra-party violence in ZanuPF, MDC Alliance, MDC-T,
Zapu and Mthwakazi Republic Party.
In the jostling for power, it is always the citizens that
are at the receiving end of it and as history has shown,
politicians tend to want to use ordinary supporters to
fight each other to further selfish political interests.
ZPP, therefore urges that these findings act as a clear
early warning mechanism that it goes beyond
collection of citizens’ personal details, threats or
discrimination during food aid processes.
We urge for collective civil society action to advocate
for a peaceful and level playing political field within a
culture of human rights.
We also call on political parties to have internal codes
of conducts to deal with politically motivated violence.
To the police, your work is cut out for you, and that is
to impartially deal with any criminal conduct that
happens during political campaigns.
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