names after they officially joined the ruling party.
Province
Date
HR Violated
Provincial highlights
Mashonaland
West
15 December
Right to Food
18 December
Right to Food
20 December
Right to Food
Rights of the
Elderly
31 December
Right to Food
Freedom of
Association
31 December
Right to Food
Less that 20 people received food aid despite that 48 were registered to benefit during the
month of December in Zvimba North. It is alleged that maize was delivered on 3 December but
councillor Mercy Mahachi kept the bags of maize at her homestead until 15 December when
she distributed it at night to less than half of the beneficiaries.
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister, Prisca Mupfumira was distributing food aid
in Chinhoyi urban when she is alleged to have announced that it was for all regardless of
political affiliation. Unfortunately, those that had been mobilizing residents invited mostly Zanu
PF supporters. Very few opposition activists or non-partisan community members got the
message.
Social welfare officers who were distributing relief maize at council offices at Mubaira Growth
point in Mhondoro are alleged to have discriminated against elderly people when they denied
them access to food aid. It is unclear what criteria the officials were using to identify the
elderly, as they did not look at identity documents to ascertain age. *Monica Manhenga is on
Anti Retroviral Treatment but was denied food as the social welfare officers said she did not
look sickly.
Hurungwe North Zanu PF chairperson, Oliver Mutungwa, is alleged to have held a meeting
where he announced to villagers at Karura Business Centre that fertiliser issued under the
agricultural inputs scheme would be coming soon. He is alleged to have said that all villagers
looking to benefit from the scheme should know which party to support.
During the festive season people in Karoi town were focused on getting cash. Despite the
introduction of bond notes, the cash crisis persisted. This forced most people to make financial
transactions using bank-cards and Ecocash and ended up being fleeced by shop owners who
introduced a mark up ranging from a dollar for all food stuffs bought through mobile or
electronic transactions.
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