usurped from him. Efforts are underway to dispossess him of a house he has owned for years.
Several others, who had been identified as sympathetic to him, have also suffered alongside
him.
This report also carries an incident in Mpopoma and Pelandaba, where residents accused the
MDC-T councillors of corruptly allocating residential stands, and petitioned party leader,
Morgan Tsvangirai to look into the matter. Tsvangirai tasked the party legislator for the area,
Eddie Cross to look into the matter. This investigation is underway.
DATA GATHERING METHODOLOGY
Information contained herein is based on reports from ZPP long-term community based human
rights monitors who observe and record cases of human rights violations in the constituencies
they reside. ZPP deploys a total of 420 community-based primary peace monitors (two per
each of the 210 electoral constituencies of Zimbabwe). The monitors compile reports that are
handed over to ZPP provincial coordinators who man the different ZPP regional offices in the
ten administrative provinces of Zimbabwe. Upon receipt and verifications of the reports from
the monitors, the regional coordinators compile provincial monthly monitoring reports, which
are then consolidated at the national office into the ZPP monthly monitoring reports published
in retrospect.
THE DASHBOARD – INCIDENTS STATISTICS AT A GLANCE
Figure 3: Distribution of violence victims by gender
Figure 4: Di stribut ion of vi olence
perpetrators by gender
The information graphic in figure 3 above shows the distribution of violence victims by gender,
where out of the 383 recorded victims of violence, 251 were male while 132 were female.
Looking at figure 4, out of the 336 total recorded perpetrators of violence, most are male (291)
versus only 45 female. Generally it was noted that in cases where the female perpetrators were
recorded, they were involved in acts of violence such as verbal assault or deprivation of
access to goods or services. Male perpetrators on the other hands where involved in an even
wider range of violent acts which included physical assault. There is a well-noted trend from
July where there are comparatively more female victims (132) than there are perpetrators (45).
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