CONFRONTING
RECKLESS
STATEMENTS
Responding to the Zimbabwe Peace Project April 2022 Monthly Monitoring Report implicating Zanu PF
in human rights violations, Zanu PF Director of Information, Tafadzwa Mugwadi said something that is
not only completely false, but reckless.
He was quoted in the NewsDay of 16 May in a report titled ZPP report exposes Zanu PF violence
“…ZANU PF holds ZPP and Jestina Mukoko responsible for the sporadic needless
orgies of violence that she hatches working with paid opposition activists targeting
security officers, Government buildings, businesses, and individual citizens…. The revolutionary party
is aware of a number of her rented properties which she uses as nursery beds for organising violent
protests disguised as safe houses. To the contrary, Zanu PF as an organisation is a party of peace-loving
doves, no wonder our motto is ‘unity, peace and development,” he said.
ZPP, through her lawyer, Musa Kika, who is the Executive Director of the Zimbabwe
Human Rights NGO Forum (The Forum), has since written to Mugwadi in his capacity
as the Zanu PF Director of Information demanding, among other things, that Mugwadi
either provides the evidence of his claims, or substantiate your claims or issue a
public apology, failure of which, he would be facing a US$50,000 lawsuit. Zanu PF has
responded seeking further details about the issue.
ZPP is a member of The Forum.
In the letter of demand written to Kika contends that Mukoko is a well-known human
rights activist. She is a former television personality and is accordingly easily
recognised by many Zimbabweans, so as a result of Mugwadi’s utterances, her
standing in the society has greatly diminished.
ZPP is a human rights monitoring and documentation organization that has continued
to expose evidence-based statistics of of human right abuses in Zimbabwe