members to register to vote. ZPP will therefore continue to monitor the
situation closely to see if the practice will persist now that voter
registration blitz and mop up exercise is closed and what is ongoing is
the continuous registration limited to district level. Should the practice
persist, then it forebodes a potentially sinister design.
Besides the cases of intimidation and harassment related to the
voter registration process, other cases, which were marginal by
comparison, related to forcible donations to the ruling party, forcible
attendance of ruling party meetings, and outright threats not to attend
opposition meetings or to vote for the opposition. Naturally, these
cases, it may be observed, are likely to increase as the general election
draws closer.
Political violence: The systematic rise in cases of political
violence, especially intraparty violence, as already observed, can be
traced directly to the succession politics of both Zanu PF and the MDCT. The sustained purging of the G40 continued to fuel factional fighting
in Zanu PF while the Khuphe/Chamisa succession tussle fuelled the
intraparty violence in the MDC-T.
Figure 1: Joice Mujuru supporter attacked in Harare
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