EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
An injured CCC supporter in Kwekwe.
PIC newzimbabwe.com
In all this, general citizens,
about 82 percent, were caught
up as victims while about 15
percent are CCC supporters.
We can only conclude that the
state security agents, who
banned three CCC rallies and
used brute methods to
disperse CCC supporters who
had gathered for a rally in
Gokwe, and arrested dozens
of CCC supporters for simply
wearing their party colours,
were doing so in a way meant
to give an advantage to Zanu
PF. The ruling party
continued to hold its political
campaigns without the
slightest hindrance, and with
full police protection.
Those in Zanu PF who
perpetrated violence against
CCC supporters got away with
it.
The impunity has been so
shameless that suspects in
the gruesome murder of the
Kwekwe CCC supporter,
Mboneni Ncube, are reported
to be on a rampage,
threatening to kill witnesses
lined up to testify against
them in court.
The Zanu PF activists also
allegedly kidnapped
Mboneni’s sister, Judith on 31
March and threatened to kill
her for continuing to demand
justice. Ncube was stabbed
with a spear at a CCC rally in
Kwekwe in February and
police in a leaked memo
identified the perpetrators as
Zanu PF members.
So, it was within that uneven
environment that Zimbabwe
went to by-elections on March
26 and ZPP has continued to
record unsettling incidents
where Zanu PF activists are
hounding those who
supported the CCC in the run
up to the by-elections.
In Dangamvura-Chikanga and
Bindura North, losing Zanu PF
candidates went around
demanding back the mealiemeal they doled out to people
during the campaign period
while in Kwekwe, some
vendors have been evicted
from their stalls.
At Chikurubi Maximum Prison
in Harare East, prison
wardens are being victimised
after Tendai Biti of the CCC
got more votes than his losing
rival, Mavis Gumbo.
So, as March ended, the
political tensions remained
high, and with CCC having
won the majority of the
contested National Assembly
seats, Zanu PF has begun its
campaign for 2023 and this is
likely to keep the country on
election mode, which is of
great concern.