COPAC VIOLATIONS

Date

Incident

Victims

Perpetrators

20 June 2010

The MDC Midlands North provincial chairperson Cephas Zimuti was arrested at Gokwe Centre, on Sunday for mobilising MDC supporters to attend the Constitution-making process.

Cephas Zimuti

Police

22 June 2010

An armed self-styled war veteran, Jabulani Sibanda accompanied by rowdy Zanu PF youth militia addressed villagers in Ward 28 and told them that they should not speak during Copac public meetings except those chosen by the headmen. He threatened to skin villagers who disobeyed this order.

Villagers

Jabulani Sibanda

23 June 2010

Zanu PF has established youth militia training camps at five schools in Maramba Pfungwe in Mashonaland East province, disrupting normal learning at the schools ahead of the Constitution-making process. The bases are at Museka primary school in Ward 3, Potsikayi primary school, Ward 2, Dindi primary school, Ward 4 Chipokoteke primary school, Ward 4 and Mungari primary school, Ward 4.

villagers

Dero Masenda, Mark Nyabani, Samba Makanda. Kamutomasi Kamutomasi, Reuben Nyathi, Fadzanayi Jaka, Chris Gunduza Dango Maravu, Taurai Katsamudanga, Biggie Matsimu, Rosemary Pfupa, Stephen Tandika, Clifford Kachidza and Joseph Chiparapata.

23 June

In Chivi North, villagers were turned away at a Constitution

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making public meeting, which was supposed to be held in the

districts 4 wards as there were no video cameras and tape

recorders to capture the peoples views.

23 June 2010

Constitution outreach meetings in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West province are disrupted after tempers flared within Zanu PF supporters over the non-deployment of the police and the manner in which the meetings were organised, forcing the outreach teams to abandon the meetings. Tension at the meetings in Wards 1 to 7

was palpable and the disruptions started just as the teams were being introduced.

25 June 2010

In Masvingo, a cameraperson deployed by Copac to the province, Jabulani Mubochwa is forced to stop filming by Chief Fortune Charumbira. Charumbira has since roped in his two nephews to replace Mubochwa.

Jabulani Mubochwa

Chief Fortune Charumbira

26 June 2010

Three MDC activists, Rodreck Shamu, Temba Masimara and Temba Makunyaidze of Marondera East, Mashonaland East province are abducted by state security agents in Chief Svosves area. The three have been instrumental in mobilising MDC supporters to participate in Copac public meetings in the area.

Rodreck Shamu, Temba Masimara, Temba Makunyaidze

State security agents

1 July 2010

The house of MDC district chairperson for Maramba Pfungwe in Mashonaland East province, Chengetanai Chimunhu is raided by armed State security agents who claimed that senior MDC officials had brought arms of war at the place. One of the four armed men identified himself only as Sergeant Kunaka who said he was from Police Intelligence Service (Pisi) from Mutawatawa police station. They forced Chimunhu and his family to dig around the homestead but nothing was found. After two hours of digging and interrogation, the officers left. Chimhunu says the raid by the police officers was simply to intimidate him ahead of the Constitution-making process this year.

Chengetanai Chimunhu

State agents

2 July 2010

In Fairfields, Chirumanzu, Midlands province, a deputy headmaster at Fairfields primary school called for a parents

Villagers

Civil servant

meeting and started addressing them about the Kariba draft ahead of a Copac public meetings.

5 July 2010

The Zanu PF Shamva North MP, Samuel Ziteya, illegally withdrew written submissions that had been handed to the Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee (Copac) team at Bradley school in Shamva, Mashonaland Central province.

Villagers

Samuel Ziteya

5 July 2010

In Shamva, Mashonaland Central province, Central Intelligence Organisation agents driving unmarked vehicles on 5 July addressed villagers before the start of the outreach meetings preaching the discredited Kariba draft. They threatened the villagers with disappearance if they did not comply with this directive. The meeting points that the CIO agents visited are; Bradley, Kamudyariwa, Hore, Chidembo and Kasimbi.

Villagers

State security agents

5 July 2010

Brian Pfungweni, the MDC Mashonaland Central provincial Youth Assembly chairperson is arrested at Mt Darwin Centre, for mobilising MDC supporters to attend the Constitution-making outreach meetings. He appeared in court on 8 July and was given a US$10 bail for undermining the President.

Brian Pfungweni

Police

7 July 2010

An MDC activist, Chef Mohammed is arrested on 7 July in Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central province for mobilising MDC supporters to attend the Constitution-making outreach meetings in the area.

Chef Mohammed

Police

8 July 2010

Meanwhile, an MDC activist, Lloyd Luwizhi has been arrested in Bindura for mobilising people to attend Copac public meeting.

Lloyd Luwizhi

Police

arrested on 5 and 7 July respectively in Mashonaland Central province as they mobilised MDC supporters to attend Copac meetings appear in court and are given a US$10 bail each for undermining the President.

19 July 2010

Aqualinah Katsande, West MP and notorious Zanu PF apologist, Lawrence Katsiru barred the police from arresting Zanu PF youths who had assaulted a participant during a Constitution-making outreach meeting in Chikomba West, Mashonaland East meeting. Katsiru and Katsande are members of the Copac in Mashonaland East province. Zanu PF youths turned rowdy during a public meeting at Chiwashira business centre and attacked Anthony Matodza who had just made a contribution. A report was made at Featherstone police station. However, when the police came to arrest the culprits, Katsiru and Katsande stopped them claiming Zanu PF supporters are immune to arrest.

Anthony Matodza

Aqulinah Katsande, Lawrence Katsiru

19 July 2010

Rehabilitation Technicians Association of Zimbabwe has resolved to oppose the constitution draft document during the referendum if the disabled are discriminated from participating in the on-going constitution making process.

19 July 2010

Saineti Manyika, a village head in Kaziro, Madziva, Shamva North Mashonaland Central province led Zanu PF supporters disrupt a Copac meeting in the area. During the commotion, the MDC Women Assemblys chairperson for the province, Martha Muronzi was assaulted by the rowdy Zanu PF youths. The Zanu PF youths were complaining that Muronzi had submitted a written

Martha Muronzi

Saineti Manyika

proposal during the meeting and yet the Copac team had not told them they could also do the same. The Zanu PF youths also said that they should be the only ones who should be allowed to make contributions during the meeting.

Since the beginning of Copac meetings

In Zhombe East, Midlands North province, an army officer Duncan Mahofa, well known as Major Mpofu, has been intimidating villagers threatening to beat up suspected MDC members if they continue contributing in the constitution making outreach meetings.

Zhombe East villagers

Duncan Mahofa

19 July 2010

In Odzi, Mutare North in Manicaland province, Bond Godzi and his family have been evicted from Shemara Farm by a self-styled war veteran, Lameck Kutsava on the grounds that Godzi was too vocal during the Copac meeting held at Odzi Country Club.

Bond Godzi and family

Lameck Kutsava

19 July 2010

Copac meetings fail to resume in Manicaland province as the 30 Copac drivers assigned to the province have gone on strike demanding their allowances and an increase in daily allowances.

Copac drivers

Copac

19 July 2010

Three men who last month lost a case against the Copac have dragged the body to the courts seeking an interdict from publishing any Press statement regarding them. Qhubekani Dube, Mqondisi Moyo and Phathisani Nondo want Copac to prepare a public apology and retraction in all eight newspapers that the three are criminals and members of the public should be wary of them.

20 July 2010

More than 40 outreach team members are refused access to hotel rooms in Orange Grove and Chinhoyi Caves in Mashonaland West province because Copac had not pre-paid accommodation.

Outreach teams

Copac

20 July 2010

Soldiers are forcing church leaders to meeting in Kariba, Mashonaland West province demanding that they tell their parishioners to adopt the Zanu PF position in the Constitution meetings or the parishioners risk unspecified action. Copac is yet to conduct meetings in the report town

Church leaders

Soldiers

21 July 2010

In Mwenezi, Masvingo province, Chief Chitanga has destroyed a 400 hectare winter maize crop at Makume Ranch accusing the owners of being strong MDC supporters. The crop was destroyed after Chief Chitanga, who is also a senator, drove cattle into the fields claiming that the 49 owners of the maize crop were MDC supporters. The chiefs actions have left the local community in shock as the maize crop, which was reaching maturity stage was boosting the countrys food security. The chief was assisted by his aides and police special constabularies in destroying the maize crop.

Mwenezi villagers

Chief Chitanga

19 July 2010

Farai Kajanda, a headman in Mudzi North, Mashonaland East province Kajanda Village is arrested for leading a team of Zanu PF supporters in torching the houses of two MDC supporters Chitengu Fore and Gabriel Karonga. A week before Kajanda had organised a Zanu PF rally in the area where said that the MDC activists and two other MDC members Bob Gora and Nelson Muparo should be removed from the area before the Copac outreach meetings started in the area.

Chitengu Fore and Gabriel Karonga

Farai Kajanda

19 July 2010

Three MDC activists in Seke district, Mashonaland East are arrested on trumped-up charges of burning a house belonging to an

unnamed Zanu PF supporter. The three Joseph Nyandoro, 70, Jacob Chivaura, 61, Mwarianesu Mutandwa, 63, who had contributed immensely during a Copac meeting held at Mupfuri Primary School in Ward 17 were apprehended soon after the meeting. One Brigadier Chanakira who is in Team 5 of the Copac team in Mashonaland East took the three to Beatrice police station.

19 July 2010

In Robert Sinyoka village, Pumula South, Bulawayo, Edith Ncube Mafu, an MDC ward chairperson has gone into hiding after Zanu PF supporters visited her home and threatened her with unspecified action if she continued to mobilise people to attend the Constitution-making outreach meetings in the area. Five men driving a marked Zanu PF Bulawayo DCC vehicle came to Mafus residence last week and ordered her to stop forthwith from mobilising people in the area to attend Copac meetings.

Edith Ncube Mafu

Zanu PF supporters

19 July 2010

Chivi district administrator in Masvingo province, Bernard Hadzirabwi has gone into hiding fearing for his life after he was threatened by Zanu PF militia for his contributions at a Constitutional outreach meeting at Chivi Centre. Hadzirabwi had during his contribution suggested that the countrys Prime Minister should have executive powers.

Bernard Hadzirabwi

Zanu PF militia

19 July 2010

In Mhuke and Virimayi villages in Zaka West, Masvingo province, Zanu PF youths led by one Faustinos Murambatsvina are harassing, intimidating villagers and threatening that they will setup torture bases in the area if the villagers speak at the Constitution-making meetings.

Faustinos Murambatsvina

20 July 2010

Views gathered from the people in Matebeleland South region have mysteriously disappeared from a laptop where they were stored.

Villagers

District Administrator

22 July 2010

Constitutional outreach members from all the ten provinces, with drivers and technicians included, are threatening to down their tools due to poor working conditions and a breach of agreements by COPAC.

Copac outreach members

Copac

23 July 2010

In Mazowe South, Mashonaland Central province, a Central Intelligence Organisation operative, Alex Kanengoni has teamed up with Zanu PF youths in the area to intimidate villagers against attending the Constitution Parliamentary Select Committee (Copac) meetings. The threats saw a very low turnout of people today at Chaona business centre in the area.

Villagers

Alex Kanengoni

23 July 2010

Inmates at Harare Prison plead with deputy Justice and Legal Affairs minister, Senator Obert Gutu for their voices to be heard in the crafting of a new Constitution.

Prisoners

23 July 2010

In Mwenezi East, Masvingo province, one Colonel J Hungwe of Ngundu Halt, Major Neshuro and Justice Sithole, the Zanu PF chairperson of Mwenezi District Coordinating Committee has forced villagers of Chingamhi Ward 5 and threatened them with death if they did not support the discredited Kariba draft in the Constitution-making process. Hungwe was armed with an AK47 rifle when he addressed the meeting.

23 July 2010

Police have arrested John Ziyera, one of the monitors shadowing the chaotic Constitution making exercise despite assurance by

John Ziyera

Police

Copac leaders to spare them from harassment and arrest.

25 July 2010

Self-styled war veterans leader, Jabulani Sibanda is moving around Bikita West constituency in Masvingo province intimidating and harassing villagers. They are threatening people with death if they do not support the discredited Zanu PFs Kariba draft.

Villagers

Jabulani Sibanda

26 July 2010

Chief Ndondo of Mbembesi in Matabeleland North province has instructed his subjects not to contribute during the constitution outreach programme, saying he will speak on their behalf. The chief also allegedly told the villagers that they should not entertain the outreach teams if they do not have a Xhosa-speaking person among them.

Villagers

Chief Ndondo

27 July 2010

Andrew Langa, deputy minister of Public Service and Insiza North MP. Langa led a group of Zanu PF supporters in threatening with death an MDC activist, Sitshengisiwe Ndlovu in Insiza district in Matabeleland South. Ndlovu had enquired from the Copac team if people would be safe after making their contributions during the public consultations. Langa, village headman Magaba and Ward 17 Zanu PF youth activist only identified as Ernest visited Ndlovu at her homestead and threatened her with death. Fearing for her life, she has since fled her home.

Sitshengisiwe Ndlovu

Andrew Langa

28 July 2010

War veterans in Insiza. Matebeleland South province attacked monitors observing the Constitutional making process. Meetings in Gcabaya and Amazon areas were disrupted after Zanu PF supporters.

Villagers

War veterans

28 July 2010

Some MPs have stopped participating in the Constitutional outreach programme citing low and erratic payment of allowances.

MPs

29 July 2010

Drivers employed under Copac in Matabeleland South province have gone on strike demanding outstanding allowances. The disgruntled drivers refused to take Copac outreach teams to venues of their meetings, leaving the teams stranded in Bulawayo.

Copac drivers

30 July 2010

Self-styled war veterans leader, Jabulani Sibanda is harassing and intimidating villagers in Bikita West, Masvingo province ahead of the Constitution-making outreach meetings in the area. Sibanda who is accompanied by Zanu PF youths is moving around the constituency urging villagers to support the Zanu PFs discredited Kariba draft position.

Villagers

Jabulani Sibanda

1 August 2010

The ZBC has refused to air jingles and any other information advertising the ongoing Copac outreach exercise.

Viewers and listeners

ZBC

1 August 2010

Three teachers and a security guard have been arrested in Karoi, Mashonaland West province after they challenged soldiers who were coaching villagers on the Zanu PF Constitution position ahead of Copac meetings in the area. The teachers are; Rorden Matsaure ,32, Innocent Nyoni ,34, Clifford Muchingami ,30, and the security guard, Patrick Murira ,39,

Rorden Matsaure, Innocent Nyoni, Clifford Muchingami and Patrick Murira

Police

1 August 2010

The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) says that a new wave of violence is rising against teachers under an operation mounted by the Zanu PF party of President Robert Mugabe called

Teachers

Zanu PF

Operation Chimumu, to suppress non-Zanu PF views.

2 August 2010

In Ward 6, Zhombe, Midlands North province, one army Major Mpofu has threatened to court martial an ex-soldier Tungamirai Hove, if he continues to mobilise MDC supporters ahead of the Constitution-making meetings in the area.

Tungamirai Hove

Major Mpofu

2 August 2010

School lessons are being disrupted at St Francis secondary school in Guruve South, Mashonaland Central province as former students from the disbanded National Youth Service have camped at the school and are performing drills and singing during the lessons. The youths camped at the school last month on the pretext that they wanted to perform community service at the school and the surrounding community. However, no work has been done as the youths who requested resources from the school, spent the whole day doing drills, singing and threatening to cause disturbances if the discredited Zanu PF Kariba draft is rejected by the people in the Constitution-making process

Students and teachers

Youth militia

3 August 2010

Three Karoi teachers Rorden Matsaure, Innocent Nyoni, Clifford Muchingami and a security guard, Patrick Murira, who were arrested last week after challenging soldiers who were coaching villagers on a Zanu PF Constitution position, have been freed on bail after their lawyers applied for their release at the Karoi Magistrates Court.

Rorden Matsaure, Innocent Nyoni, Clifford Muchingami and Patrick Murira

Police

5 August

Copac has been forced to suspend 10 public meetings in Masvingo

Villagers

Jabulani Sibanda

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province after Jabulani Sibanda, a self-styled war veteran threatened to unleash violence against villagers in Bikita West if they opposed the Zanu PF Kariba draft.

5 August 2010

The District Administrator for Murehwa in Mashonaland East province only identified as Mubvuro bans a civil education in the area ahead of Copac outreach meetings scheduled for 14 August.

District Administrator

6 August 2010

The house of MDC Bikita West youth chairperson, David Hollman, is set on fire by Zanu PF supporters after self-styled war veteran, Jabulani Sibanda had used inflammatory language including threats that the country would slide back to 2008 violence at a rally at Mashoko business centre on 5 August 2010.

David Hollman

Jabulani Sibanda

6 August 2010

The following soldiers and Zanu PF supporters are harassing and intimidating villagers in Mberengwa South, Midlands South province ahead of the Constitution-making exercise in the area. Eremicious Makumire, a soldier popularly known as Shamu. He is operating in Ward 2, Chomubhobho under Operation Maguta and is moving around armed and threatening villagers if they speak against the discredited Zanu PF Kariba draft. Miros Mabatagore a Zanu PF supporter has illegally occupied a house for the teachers at Ivhukuvanhu primary school and is threatening to evict the teachers from the school if they participate in the Constitution-making process. One Major Dhlamini and a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative Shepherd Chitongo are threatening villagers with unspecified action if they participate in the Constitution-making process in Mataga area.

Villagers

Zanu PF supporters

11 August 2010

In Mt Darwin South, Mashonaland Central province, an MDC activist, Chakanetsa Murenga was arrested on Wednesday on trumped-up charges of undermining the President at an MDC internal meeting at Matokwe business centre. Murenga has since been transferred to Bindura Central police station and is expected to appear in court on Friday. The meeting was meant to find the way forward ahead of Copac outreach meetings to be held soon in the area.

Chakanetsa Murenga

Police

12 August 2010

Two MDC activists, Perpetua Pedzisai and Tsvakai Muzhambi are battling for their lives at a Mutare hospital after they were severely attacked by Zanu PF supporters on Wednesday in Chipinge, Manicaland province in an attempt to bar them from participating in Copac meetings. Pedzisai is the Ward 6 organising secretary for Chipinge Central while Muzhambi is a committee member for Ward 16 in Chipinge West. They were attacked in separate incidents and have since been transferred to a hospital in Mutare.

Perpetua Pedzisai and Tsvakai Muzhambi

Zanu PF thugs

12 August 2010

Central Intelligence Organization agents who are terrorising villagers in Manicaland province have removed registration numbers from their cars, after an SMS news alert on the 6th August. The SMS exposed the names of officers involved in the violence and gave the registration numbers of the cars used. The alert exposed the use of a white Nissan double cab ABM0196 used by a CIO officer identified as Shingi, ABM0155 used by the Officer in Charge of Chipinge CID known as Chizemo and another similar truck ABM0203, used by a CIO known as Matake.

Villagers

State agents

On Friday Makoni South legislator Pishai Muchauraya told Newsreel; After that exposure by SW Radio Africa the CIOs involved in that violence removed the number plates of the cars operating in Chipinge. They also confronted some of our members, including some drivers, asking us why we are putting them on the internet including their registrations numbers and names. The identified CIO officers were moving from village to village ahead of constitutional outreach meetings and terrorizing known MDC supporters. The campaign is part of moves by ZANU PF to silence any opposition to a draft constitution supported by Mugabes regime. The CIOs named were particularly active in the Chipinge, Chipinge South and Musikavanhu constituencies.

13 August 2010

A Copac meeting is aborted at Checheche business centre in Chipinge, Manicaland province after Zanu PF supporters attacked two MDC members Charles Chiunke and Charles Chovhi.

Charles Chiunke and Charles Chovhi

Zanu PF supporters

13 August 2010

The Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (Copac) has demanded to handle cash for its operations, saying the current system where donors and the government pay directly to service providers was slowing the crafting of a new governance charter

Copac

Donors

16 August 2010

Seven MDC activists are abducted at gunpoint at night in Ward 7, Chimanimani East, Manicaland province by State security agents and a Zanu PF Manicaland provincial member, Janet Knight. The seven MDC supporters are; Joseph and Tinashe Chikware, Stanley, David and Wilson Kuretu, John Jiyamwa and Matibiri

Joseph and Tinashe Chikware, Stanley, David and

State agents, Zanu PF

Nyando. The State security agents accused the seven of being too vocal at a Constitution-making outreach meeting held in the area last week. Property which included generators, solar power and furniture was destroyed by the abductors. The whereabouts of the seven are still unknown and the MDC fears for their safety.

Wilson Kuretu, John Jiyamwa and Matibiri Nyando.

19 August 2010

The MDC MP for Bikita South in Masvingo province, Hon. Jani Varandeni was yesterday detained for more than 10 hours at Masvingo Central police station on trumped-up charges of attacking over 60 Zanu PF supporters at a rally at Mashoko business in Bikita South. Hon. Varandeni was on his way to a Copac outreach meeting when he was arrested and detained for 10 hours. However, he was released after the police failed to get further evidence to warrant his detention overnight.

Hon. Jani Varandeni

Police

19 August 2010

In Manicaland province, Copac meetings were yesterday abandoned after the 10 Copac teams in the province failed to secure fuel from the Central Equipment and Mechanical Department (CMED). Hundreds of people who wanted to participate in the meetings were left stranded after the teams failed to travel

Copac teams

21 August 2010

MDC Mashonaland West provincial driver, Stanley Pindiriri was attacked by Zanu PF supporters at Imogero Farm in Chegutu East as he mobilised MDC supporters to attend Copac meetings in the district. The MDC provincial vehicle was also damaged by the thugs. A police report was made and the perpetrators identified

Stanley Pindiriri

Zanu PF

but no arrests were made.

23 August 2010

Scores of people who had turned up for a Copac outreach meeting at Sebakwe primary school in Kwekwe rural, Midlands North province were on Monday chased away as they did not have Zanu PF cards. Zanu PF supporters led by the former Mbizo councillor, Simba Nyamadzawo, descended at the venue before the meeting and started screening people present. Those who did not have Zanu PF cards were turned away and threatened with death if they refused. During the meeting, Nyamadzawo would disrupt proceedings and threaten to takeover land from those who spoke against the Zanu PF.

Villagers

Zanu PF

3 September 2010

A Copac outreach meeting is held at a graveyard in Domborembudzi in Murehwa, Mashonaland East province

5 September 2010

MDC MP, Bednock Nyaude is assaulted by Beauty Zhuwao, the wife of Manyame MP, Patrick Zhuwao at a Copac outreach meeting. Patrick is the nephew of Robert Mugabe.

Nyaude

Zhuwao

13 September 2010

Misheck Mazanga of Ward 17 in Chipinge East, Manicaland province flees from his home after Zanu PF activists in the company of soldiers pounced on him. Mazanga troubled began when he successfully mobilised MDC supporters to attend Constitution-making outreach meetings at Munoyirirwa Primary School in the area.

Misheck Mazanga

Zanu PF, soldiers

14 September

Copac is in the process of carrying out an audit on areas that have not been covered by the outreach teams, so they could be visited.

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15 September 2010

Three MDC supporters are assaulted by a gang of Zanu PF youths while on their way from an MDC ward meeting in Mbare, Harare. Jack Chimukupe, Belinda Gerison and Constantine Makwinya were assaulted on their way home in Ward 11, Mbare as they came from an MDC meeting. The three are still admitted in hospital. A medical report shows that Makwinya sustained multiple soft tissue injuries on side scalp, right hip joint and that the injuries were likely caused by a blunt object.

MDC supporters

Zanu PF

17 September 2010

The MDC says it will participate in the Copac outreach meetings in Harare under protest because of Zanu PFs refusal to increase the number of meetings per ward to two to accommodate the multitudes of people expected to attend the gatherings.

MDC

Zanu PF

18 September 2010

Constitution outreach programmes resume today in Harare, Bulawayo and Chitungwiza after parties to the GPA agreed to go ahead with the schedule of a single meeting per ward.

18 September 2010

Mbare MP, Piniel Denga is manhandled at a Copac outreach meeting in Waterfalls, Harare.

Piniel Denga

Zanu PF

An MDC member, Bvuma Samunda of Ward 22, Nyamaropa, Nyanga North, Manicaland province is admitted into hospital after being assaulted by Zanu PF youths at a Copac meeting in the area.

Bvuma Samunda

Zanu PF

18 September 2010

Zanu PF busses in its supporters from the rural areas into Harare, Chitungwiza and Bulawayo to disrupt the Constitution making process in the three towns.

Zanu PF

19 September 2010

Copac outreach meetings in Harare are abandoned after violence and chaos rocked the proceedings as Zanu PF youths chased away MDC supporters from the gathering. The Zanu PF youths were wielding all sorts of crude weapons.

MDC supporters

Zanu PF

19 September 2010

Confusion continued into the second day of the Constitution-making process in Bulawayo, with most suburbs meeting beginning at midday.

Residents

Copac

19 September 2010

Three MDC cadres, Godfrey Cotton, Shingi Gorekore and Paul Majarifa are arrested at Mbare police station after they had gone to report that they had been assaulted by Zanu PF supporters. They are later transferred to Harare Central Police Stations Law and Order Section.

Godfrey Cotton, Shingi Gorekore and Paul Majarifa

Police

19 September 2010

Copac co-chairperson, Munyaradzi Mangwana (Zanu PF) says several outreach meetings were abandoned in Harare as a result of violent clashes between rival political parties.

20 September 2010

The MDC Chitungwiza national youth secretary for international relations, Netsai Chamhemberes house in Chitungwiza is ransacked by marauding Zanu PF youths after a riotous constitution consultation meeting in ward 15, Unit D, Chitungwiza. Chamhembere said she was not at home at the time the youth broke into her house, but that her husband, Lawrence was at home who was assaulted before they made him to touch a hot plate stove.

Chamhembere

Zanu PF

20 September

At its extraordinary meeting, the Copac management committee resolved to suspend all outstanding outreach meetings in Harare

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until a full review of the disturbances have been conducted.

22 September 2010

An MDC activist, Chrispen Mandizvidza (32), who was assaulted by Zanu PF hooligans at a Copac outreach meeting at Mai Musodzi Hall in Mbare on Sunday, has died. Mandizvidza died at the Avenues clinic in Harare today after succumbing to injuries he sustained during the assault by Zanu PF supporters.

Chrispen Mandizvidza

Zanu PF youths

23 September 2010

National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) chairperson, Lovemore Madhuku has called for the disbandment of Copac to allow an independent commission to lead the Constitution-making process.

23 September 2010

Edmore Manyofa, the MDC Harare North District vice-organising secretary is remanded in custody at the Harare magistrates courts on charges that he disrupted a Copac meeting in Borrowdale.

Edmore Manyofa

Courts

27 September 2010

The Copac chairpersons meet and resolved to redo 42 Copac outreach meetings in Harare at the weekend. The meetings were abandoned in Harare due to disturbances by rowdy Zanu PF youths.

27 September 2010

Two MDC supporters Prosper Mushape and Simbarashe Chakauya were arrested at a Copac outreach meeting at Lozikeyi Primary School after informing the police that there was a person present who was carrying a small axe. However, the report by Mushape and Chakauya did not go down well with Zanu PF supporters and they did that the two be arrested as they were disrupting the meeting.

Prosper Mushape and Simbarashe Chakauya

Police/Zanu PF

28 September 2010

Zanu PF team 1 members led by Pariyane abort a Copac outreach meeting at Chiurwe, Ward 32, Buhera Central, Manicaland province claiming that they are no State security agents present and therefore feared for their lives.

28 September 2010

Copac expects to end mop up operations today.