| Province
and District |
The
General Environment |
General
Political Atmosphere |
| Manicaland
- Buhera |
Calm |
The situation
is calm but MDC activists are being denied access to government
agricultural inputs by suspected ZANU PF officials. They claim
that the inputs are meant to benefit ZANU PF members only as
they are from the President. But on paper the farming inputs
are meant to benefit very Zimbabwean in need regardless of political
affiliation. |
| Masvingo
- Zaka |
Calm |
No cases
of political violence reported but MDC supporters are still
being denied access to farming inputs by suspected ZANU PF members. |
| Midlands
- Gokwe |
Calm |
The area
is relatively quiet and political rallies are taking place without
any hindrance. |
| Mashonaland
Central |
Calm |
No cases
of violence or intimidation recorded in the previous week. |
| Masvingo
- Gutu |
Calm |
The area
is generally calm but a worrying trend is that police officers
are attending internal MDC meetings by force ostensibly to eavesdrop
on their plans as well as intimidating the activists from debating
critical internal issues affecting the party. This is making
the activists wary of the intentions of the police. |
| Mashonaland
East - Mutoko |
Calm |
No reported
cases of political violence |
| Bulawayo |
Tense |
People
are being forced to pay one dollar per family for the holding
of the Zanu PF Conference which is scheduled to start on Thursday
8 December 2011. A lot of youth and state security agents have
descended on the city of Bulawayo.
A market stall in the city centre was forced
to close on Saturday 3 December 2011 after ZANU PF youths
forced the vendors to attend a party meeting at the Royal
Hotel. It is allegedly that the youths went around disturbing
the vendors and forcing them to stop selling their wares attend
the meeting which took more than 4 hours. The vendors were
angered by the move as most of them claimed that they are
neither MDC or ZANU PF and are mainly concerned about bread
and butter issues of trying to feed their families.
It is also reported that there is a heavy
police presence in the city center and many surrounding areas
which is threatening the citizens who are finding it difficult
to carry out their day to day activities especially after
4pm.
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