Total
Harassment/Intimidation
Unlawful Detention
Discrimination
Total
Right to personal integrity and human dignity
Right to personal liberty
Right to food, aid and livelihood
32
3
2
1
6
Mat South
Harassment/Intimidation
Assault
Total
Right to personal integrity and human dignity
Right to personal integrity and human dignity
7
1
8
Harassment/Intimidation
Discrimination
Malicious Damage to
Property
Right to personal integrity and human dignity
Right to food, aid and livelihood
Property rights
14
1
1
Bulaway
o
Mat North
16
Following the announcement that beginning in 2015 Grade 7 students would
pay examination fees, Zimrights local chapter members mobilized for a
demonstration against this decision at Ndolwane Centre on 28 May and close to
one thousand people took part.
The Agricultural Rural Development Authority (ARDA) irrigation scheme at
Ingwizi farm stopped tilling 8 months ago and villagers are crying foul as it was
their source of livelihood. The local MP is reported to be ignoring calls to hold
meetings with the community and instead sends Zanu PF junior officials who
spend time chanting slogans and registering youths for what they claim to be
registering for pieces of land. Only Zanu PF card carrying members are being
registered.
An MDC-T activist was on 19 May arrested on false charges of murder after
Jabulani Dube of Zanu PF is reported to have falsely informed them that the
MDC-T activist had murdered Mchumisi Sibanda. The two had fought six days
earlier and went their separate ways. Jabulani then told police Sibanda had died.
The victim was later released and fined $50 for assault.
On 14 May 2015 Lucy Moyo and other Zanu PF activists seriously beat up a
MDC-N activist accusing him of having benefitted from a government fertilizer
distribution scheme. They further stated that the fertilizer was meant for Zanu
PF members only. He was also accused of having sold the fertilizer. The victim
sustained cuts on the face and received two stitches. The matter was reported to
police but no arrests were made.
Most incidents recorded in Bulawayo were election related as political parties and
independent candidates upped their campaigns ahead of the June 10 by-elections.
On Sunday May 31 an agricultural project funded by World Vision to benefit