officials at a party meeting at Masuku Business Centre and requested to buy party cards
and also register for food and maize seed.
21 November
Right to Food
In Hololo village, Tsholotsho South ward 22 councilor Phumuza Ziya Dube was accused by
villagers of writing names of his fellow Zanu PF members only for food relief benefits. He
was accused of doing this in conjunction with his zone leaders who are also Zanu PF.
25 November
Right to Water
Right to
Health
The Sipepa Business Centre and Hospital in ward 5 of Tsholotsho North, under chief
Matupula, continue to be without water after the Zinwa water pump broke down. This has
been worsened by an electric fault in the area. The water crisis poses a serious health
hazard in the affected hospital, school and shops.
Province
Date
HR Violated
Provincial highlights
Matabeleland
South
3 November
Right to Food
Zanu PF activists in Beitbridge East were compiling lists of people to benefit from welfare
food and farm inputs. Villagers complained why party activists instead of the councilor and
village heads did the registration as this might lead to discrimination. The Zanu PF activists
were promising that people would receive 10kg maize seed, 2 bags of 50kg fertilizer and
50kg maize per family.
10 November
Right to Food
Umzingwane Zanu PF officials are alleged to have been registering people for farming
inputs claiming it was from their party yet the villagers believed it was a government scheme.
The Department of Social Welfare distributed food in ward 6 but not everyone benefitted as
the maize was insufficient.
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