#PROVINCIAL OUTLOOK
Matabeleland South
More intimidation
The intimidation of villagers and
the politicization of aid
continued and in one case at Sun
Yet Sen a Zanu PF activist
Muziwakhe Mlalazi threatened to
invite the Zanu PF aligned
National Youth Service (NYS)
militia to the community to beat
up CCC supporters.
He further said that CCC should
not be allowed to hold any
meeting in the area.
This case was similar to the one
recorded at Coleen Bawn, in
Gwanda Central where a group of
four unidentified people
assaulted a CCC supporter for
wearing the party’s regalia.
In another case, on 25 February,
at Sanzukwi a Zanu PF activist
Amos Dube denied food aid to
an MRP member. After turning
away the MRP member, Dube
later misrepresented to those
who had benefitted that the
food, which was from the
government’s Department of
Social Welfare, was from the
Zanu PF party and therefore
anyone who supported other
political parties was supposed to
receive aid from that party.
Manicaland
Looting of inputs
In Manicaland Province, just as in
Mashonaland Central,
politicization of aid dominated
the list of human rights
violations in the province, with
the most cases happening in
Buhera and Nyanga districts,
where only two House of
Assembly seats Dangamvura/Chikanga and
Mutasa South. - are being
contested.
One example is in Zvinavashe
village 7 and Mtaurwa village 9,
where Zanu PF local leadership
tampered with the list of
households supposed to benefit
from inputs and while the
government employees, that is,
the Agricultural Extension
officers, noted the omission of
some names, they referred to
village secretaries who indicated
they had included anyone.
It was only discovered that
perceived opposition supporters
were the ones omitted after Zanu
PF local leaders hijacked the
process.
There was a similar case at Baron
Downs Farm in Nyanga South,
where farm inputs were allegedly
looted by Agricultural Extension
Officers Caroline Mandikonza
and Joseph Nzara and a Zanu PF
area chairperson Slay Mhandu.