Those who were arrested are Oswald Gwanzura, Shepherd Mangwende, Mary Jane
Chitiyo, Stella Murimo and Koshiwai Rabvu.
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A man from Uzumba had his property destroyed in 2008 election violence. He fled with
his family to Harare. In May 2015 he came back to his homestead where he was
allegedly approached by the village head, Ishmael Mazarura, to denounce the MDC-T
party and join Zanu PF for him to live peacefully. All along he had been reluctant to do
that until 7 August 2015 when he approached the village head to announce his
decision to join Zanu PF. The village committee passed a decision that he would only
be accepted on condition that he erased all rocks inscribed with MDC-T slogans in the
area. The man is painting all rocks with MDC-T slogans white but is still not being
accepted in the community because of his known affiliation to the MDC-T party.
M ashonaland W est
The majority of cases reported in Mashonaland West involved the abuse of power by
traditional leaders and the heightened factionalism within Zanu PF as those in ‘favourable light’
brandished their undue ‘political privilege’.
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An intra-party conflict was reported when Zanu PF members had a fist fight on 25
August 2015 at Mashuma Shopping Centre in Hurungwe West. Justin Kaparamara, a
headman and former Zanu PF chairperson who was fired in June, gathered people to
organise Zanu PF cell structures for district elections. This did not go down well with
John Mahiya who replaced him as chairperson. He was appointed by the Zanu PF
Secretary for Administration, Ignatius Chombo, and on this instance he questioned
Kaparamara’s authority to call the villagers for a meeting. Kaparamara said he got the
authority from the provincial committee. Mahiya attacked Kaparamara leading to a fist
fight one which Member Mutinha had to stop. The two eventually agreed to have
elections on 30 August 2015. Mahiya insisted that a letter would have to come from the
province to confirm that Kaparamara is still part of the committee.
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A Zanu PF youth leader was ridiculed by Trust Zvimba, an MDC-T member, for being
part of the party that tables policies that have led people to suffer. This took place on
12 August 2015 at Manyewe Business Centre. The victim was an alleged perpetrator
between 2010 and 2013.
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Thomas Marumisa, a former leader in the MDC led by Welshman Ncube (MDC-N) in
Kadoma, was accused by one, Gilberta Silver Tore, of using people to gain political
power. Marumisa is now the chairperson of Mashonaland West in Renewal Democrats
of Zimbabwe. Tore was rebuffed in the RDZ meeting and indicated that Marumisa was
too nomadic and often uses people to gain support and dumps them for the next party.
This took place on 8 August 2015.
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Sub Chief Jerami of Mafuta in Raffingora allowed illegal farmers to farm on land that
was not for farming in May 2014. They were allowed to farm after the chief had
collected US$30 per household from them. On 23 August 2015, he addressed a
meeting where he pointed out that the illegal farmers cannot continue to farm in the
area and so they had to leave. They were given four days to vacate the land. He
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