As noted in the graph,
Mashonaland Central
province has the highest
number of politically
motivated human rights
violations with a total of 20
politically motivated
violations, 13 of which are
serious and five are severe.
Mugabe purged then Vice
President Joice Mujuru and several
others who hailed from this
province.
In the 2017 military coup, several
other top officials like Saviour
Kasukuwere lost their positions
and this has left the province
fractured and in interviews carried
out by the ZPP while assessing the
impact of the Zanu PF national
Mashonaland Central is followed
conference happening in the
by Mashonaland West, which has
province, Zanu PF supporters
15 cases, six of which are severe,
confirmed the trend. This was also
and Manicaland comes third with
a total of 13 violations followed by confirmed by the gravity of
human rights violations during
Masvingo’s eight cases.
the campaign for the provincial
Mashonaland Central comes first
post by the current chair
as a result of the political
Kazembe, who used his clout as
contestation that took place in
Home Affairs minister to interfere
Zanu PF ahead of the party’s
in the work of the police. In
conference. Generally, the
September, a challenger to
province, which the party claims is
Kazembe, Lazarus Dokora was
its stronghold, is characterized by
assailed by alleged hit-men who
deep-seated factional politics that
used claw hammers to smash his
date back to nearly a decade ago
car allegedly with the intention
when the former President Robert
killing him.