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2020_ ZPP MMR NOVEMBER 2020 - INTOLERANCE!

Monthly Monitoring Report

Executive Summary: In his book, The Story of My Life, first published in 1984 the late nationalist and Vice President of Zimbabwe, Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo wrote, “What matters is that the leadership should encourage diverse opinions to be heard the opinions of different social groups, different economic interests, different social groups But far too many leaders have come to believe that their own interests and those of the people are the same They confuse self preservation with national security, and to preserve their own regimes throw the safeguards of the law and of individuals’ rights out of the window When the rights of the individual even of a few individuals are suppressed, there can be not respect for the rights of the people as a whole The State begins to govern against its citizens, rather than with them 36 years after this was written, and more than 21 years after Nkomo’s death, the dream of a leadership that musters the collective energy of Zimbabweans towards development, is still to be realised What exists is, in the words of Nkomo energy being “dissipated by government which seems to feel the need to exercise a partisan authority rather than to mobilise the national will This is all evident in the human rights violations the Zimbabwe Peace Project ( recorded throughout the month of November, which confirm a growing pattern of government’s disregard of the socio economic, and civil and political rights of ordinary citizens.In November, there was a continuation of partisan distribution of agricultural inputs under the government’s Pfumvudza input scheme, biased hand out of food aid from the government’s social welfare department as well as the open bias in court processes and the escalation of the stifling of alternative voices, in politics, media and civil society and other spaces In addition, ZPP, in November, documented a growing water crisis largely in urban centres and increased vulnerability of people due to the economic challenges To buttress this are the statistics of human rights violations, where, out of the 226 incidents recorded, the Zimbabwe Republic Police ( contributed 30 65 percent of the perpetrators while Zanu PF accounted for 18 48 percent, followed by the municipal police at 8 7 percent and five percent by the Zimbabwe National Army ( The affiliation of 34 75 percent of the perpetrators remained unknown, raising fears over the non existence of a sense of personal security in the country, where the ordinary people are vulnerable, with noeffective protection from human rights violations The two factions, which are in a State aided, bitter fight over the control of the biggest opposition political party, the MDC, contributed a combined 2 17 percent of the violations whereas the war veterans contributed 0 43 percent of perpetrators recorded It must be noted that entities linked to the State and the ruling party, which are, the ZRP, Zanu PF, ZNA, war veterans, and municipal police, contributed a combined 63 26 percent of perpetrators of human rights violations recorded in November Topping the list of incidents were 118 cases of intimidation and harassment attributed largely to the police and the army, followed by 45 cases of discrimination during aid distribution and 21 cases of assault and eight cases of unlawful detention In November, ZPP recorded two cases of killings, one in Harare and the other in Mazowe where miners were buried alive as shall be detailed in the case files in this report.

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