Resist, Reject and Report Violence, #RRRV2023
NOVEMBER 2022
Bulawayo
In Magwegwe constituency a police officer identified as Constable Eriazel
Gondo was arrested after he went to a Zanu PF meeting and registered his
displeasure over the economic collapse in the country. Gondo told the Zanu
PF members that they were busy looting and enriching themselves yet the
majority of the citizens are wallowing in poverty and untold suffering. He
was later arrested and charged with under criminal codification act for
disrupting a public gathering. During a citizen’s demonstration at Bulawayo
City Council over poor service delivery, Mzingaye Mhlanga blamed
underperformance on the lack of political will by Zanu PF. He also blamed
the presence of non-Ndebele speakers in the executive of council which
angered Given Moyo who accused him of fanning tribalism. This led to
Mhlanga assaulting Moyo. In Mzilikazi, Makhokhoba constituency Samuel
Dube of Movement for Demoratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T) went around
the shops insulting members of the CCC using vulgar words.
Manicaland
There was an increase in trends of abuse of political connections and close
proximity to top Zanu PF officials in government. Zanu PF members in
Mutare were in the habit of disregarding municipal by-laws banking on their
political connections. On 15 November in Mutare Central, Cecilia Gambe, a
former local authority member under Zanu PF, organised a group of Zanu PF
party youths under the Youths for Economic Development (Youths4ED)
group. They started moving around all markets in Sakubva and Mutare CBD
telling vendors to sell their wares even in undesignated places defying the
directive by the Mutare municipality. She advised Zanu PF affiliated vendors
to assault municipal police officers if they happen to disperse them. On 6
November, at Lallesvlei farm, ward 8 in Chipinge Central a plot holder was
harassed by Marozva, Tendai Charakupa and Madhosi who are all Zanu PF
members who wanted to forcefully grab the plot from him.
The Zimbabwe Peace Project
Monthly Monitoring Report
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