Human Rights Monitoring Report - Kubatana

SOUTHERN REGION
community members were denied access
to maize by MM a Kraal head and Zanu
PF member for allegedly belonging to
neither Zanu PF nor MDC.
Lupane
3 June 2007
34 year old TG a Zanu PF supporter of
Lupane allegedly annoyed NN of MDC
at a funeral when he said “The Ndebele
people are stupid just like the deceased,
no wonder they were killed in the
Gukurahundi era and this year many of
them will die”. This led to the assault of
NN with clenched fists and pressing him
down onto the fire burning one side of
his face.
9 June 2007
CN, and JM of MDC of Lupanda,
Somgolo Primary School, Lupane, were
allegedly assaulted by PL, MM, MS and
MM, of Zanu PF. It is said that the
victims were on their way home from
their party meeting. The perpetrators
demanded all the meeting materials that
were distributed at the meeting and this
triggered a fist fight and JM was injured.
13 June 2007
FN, of Zanu PF from Shabula Village in
Lupane, was reportedly assaulted by
BN, of MDC and was accused of being
problematic because he is a trained
youth militia who was allegedly
implicated in a number of human rights
violations during the 2005 election. He
was beaten with a club on the back. The
incident took place at Matshabala beer
hall in Matshiya ward.
15 June 2007
MN, of Zanu PF who resides at Nyathi
homestead in Lilangeni village, was
accused of belonging to an unruly party
that discriminate along party lines when
distributing food by MM, QD, and HS
of MDC. A heated argument is said to
have ensued, and he was assaulted
during the conflict and got injured. The
three were later arrested by the police.
HZ, of MDC, from Mhlahlandlela
village in Matshiya ward was reportedly
denied access to maize grain by GMB
official JN, allegedly accusing him of
being an MDC activist and was advised
to see Mr. M the MDC Member of
Parliament for maize.
17 June 2007
© ZPP Programmes Dept. June 2007
MMT, of MDC from Mafa Primary School
in Lupane and SS, also of MDC from
Siziphe Primary school in Lupane,
allegedly got into a heated argument when
SS accused MMT of decampaigning the
incumbent senator and accused him being
a sell-out and threatened him with
unspecified action.
Nkayi
8 June 2007
LM, and MS of Gobhi village were
reportedly harassed, threatened and barred
from attending an MDC rally that was held
at the Business Centre. The perpetrator
FS, of Zanu PF is said to have been telling
people from Gobhi village not to attend the
MDC rally.
10 June 2007
ZP the MDC Councilor and other party
members from Sibangilizwe village were
allegedly harassed and threatened with a
second “Gukurahundi” if they continued
voting for MDC.
13 June 2007
NN, of Zanu PF from Gwamayaya village
was allegedly harassed by Councillor JD,
of MDC and gave preference to his MDC
party members to board the bus to
Dakamela at the expense of other members
of the public and NN of Zanu PF in
particular was denied to board the bus.
15 June 2007
SN the Minister of Small and Medium
Scale businesses addressed a meeting at
Simon business centre in Nkayi where she
allegedly threatened MM, TM and NM, of
MDC with suspension of the monthly
allowances since they were kraal heads and
accused of being loyal to the MDC.
15 June 2007
EM of MDC from Sibangilizwe village in
Ngomambi was reportedly threatened with
loss of his post of kraalhead by SM of
Zanu PF also from Sibangilizwe for
allegedly attending a ZESN democracy
workshop that was held at Mtshabi
Primary School. He was told that as a
kraal head he was supposed to be loyal to
Zanu PF.
16 June 2007
PN, and ZM of Puma village and
supporters of Zanu PF were purportedly
threatened with expulsion from the party
by JD and FS a war veteran also of Zanu
PF, for allegedly attending the MDC rally.
21 June 2007
MM, LD and RK from Sibangilizwe
village were elected by the community to
go and attend a course sponsored by the
Minister of Small & Medium Scale
Business, and upon arrival were asked to
produce Zanu PF party cards which they
did not have and were allegedly denied bus
fare reimbursement by CC, and MS of
Zanu PF.
Bubi-Umguza
4 June 2007
SN and LD both MDC supporters from
Mbembeswana ward in Matateni village
were allegedly accused of stealing maize
from the Bulilima Member of Parliament.
This incident made the two to be displaced
from ward 2 by TN and N also of MDC.
14 June 2007
ZM of MDC from Mbembeswana 1, ward
3, village 2, was supposedly accused of
stealing beers at Makoni bottle store and
the police beat him up to the point of
injuring him and told him that if he was a
Zanu PF member, they were going to
behave differently. This was said by MN
and FN of Zanu PF.
20 June 2007
MS of MDC from Mbembeswana ward 3,
village 3 was reportedly assaulted by DN,
and ST, of Zanu PF at a kraalhead’s
meeting accusing him of saying nonsense
and belonging to MDC. The kraalhead
reported the matter to police.
20 June 2007
SN, and SH, of Zanu PF of Majiji village
allegedly accused ID, of organizing a
youth meeting which was to be held at
their homestead. The perpetrators
allegedly approached her, saying, if she
ever addresses the meeting, she was not
going to make MDC members hold
positions in their village as only Zanu PF
members were allowed.
20 June 2007
It is alleged that at Balanda beer garden,
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