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Using a highly sophisticated data analysis tool, ZPP maps the severity of the
violations to give an indication of the political volatility of each province.
National Outlook
Midlands
1
Matabeleland South
3
Matabeleland North
3
Masvingo
2
Mashonaland West
3
Mashonaland East
5
Mashonaland Central
1
Manicaland
3
Harare
1
Bulawayo
3
2
1
2
5
4
Fatal
3
Mild
0
5
serious
14
severe
6
7
6
15
1
1
5
ZPP recorded more infractions
in Harare and Mashonaland
Central provinces. In Harare,
there is a total of 22 violations
while Mashonaland Central has
21 cases. ZPP recorded two
fatalities, one each in Masvingo
and Harare. In Harare, the
Zimbabwe Investment
Development Agency (ZIDA)
chief executive Douglas Munatsi
died in a fire at his Harare
penthouse. While investigations
are still ongoing, revelations
that the top banker was due to
meet President Mnangagwa to
present a document exposing
politically connected land
barons, and the mysterious
circumstances surrounding his
demise raise questions on
whether this was just an
accident, or if it was a
premeditated, politically
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motivated murder. Munatsi’s
case brings back memories of
the death of Edward ChindoriChininga, a former mines
minister who died in a
mysterious freak accident in
Guruve in June 2013 a few days
after the Parliamentary
Committee on Mines and
Energy, which he chaired, had
released a report claiming
millions of dollars in taxes paid
by companies mining diamonds
had vanished.
The other fatality happened in
Masvingo, where an MDC
Alliance activist, Nyasha
Zhambe Mawere, of Gutu
succumbed to injuries he
sustained during a vicious
attack by Zanu PF youths at an
event attended by the party’s
leader Nelson Chamisa in Gutu.
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In the past three months, Zanu
PF supporters across the
country have mounted violent
onslaughts against their MDCAlliance rivals as they sought to
prevent Chamisa from holding
his provincial meetings across
the country.
Mawere was seized by alleged
Zanu PF youth league members,
physically assaulted and left for
dead. Sympathisers took him to
Gutu District Rural Hospital
where he was admitted, treated
before being transferred to
Harare where he eventually died
on November 24.
Of the 192 politically motivated
human rights violations the ZPP
recorded, 61 were of a serious
nature while 16 were severe.
(see index of severity on Page X)