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Annexes:
Case Studies
Section
G - Purging the civil service
- Public Service
Association (PSA) has criticised politicians who are hounding civil
servants, forcing them to declare their political affiliation as a work
requirement.
(Source: Daily News 1 October 2000.)
- In April 2001 Border
Gezi warned all civil servants not to distort government programs and
said those who were not prepared to go by the set programmes, which
were ZANU (PF) programmes, were free to resign the civil service.
(Source: Herald 12 April 2001.)
- War veterans in
Plumtree shut down offices of Bulilimamangwe Rural District’s Council
and the district administrators’ offices after accusing workers of supporting
opposition parties.
(Source: Herald 11 January 2001.)
- War veterans forcibly
closed the offices of the Bulilimamangwe District Council in Plumtree
after accusing workers of sympathizing with the MDC.
(Source: Standard 11 January 2001.)
- War veterans in
Plumtree agreed to let civil servants, rural district council employees
and ZANU (PF) workers go back to work after taking over the offices
and chasing away workers the previous week.
(Source: Herald 12 January 2001).
- Workers at the
Bulilimamangwe district and provincial offices were driven out by war
veterans accusing them of supporting the MDC.
(Source: Daily News 17 January 2001.)
- The government
has suspended the assistant district administrator of Bulimamangwe district
and 10 junior employees of the local authorities in Plumtree on charges
that they are sympathetic to the MDC.
(Source: Financial Gazette 18 January 2001.)
- War veterans and
ZANU (PF) supporters swooped on the Victoria Falls Town Council offices
and ordered all workers out. They accused a number of ZANU (PF) councillors
of sympathizing with the MDC.
(Source: Daily News 26 January 2001.)
- War veterans closed
government and council offices at Zaka in Masvingo, accusing most of
the civil servants of working with the MDC to undermine State programmes.
(Source: Herald 31 January 2001.)
- War veterans closed
the Umguza Rural District Council offices, accusing officials of supporting
the MDC.
(Source: Financial Gazette 21 February 2001.)
- Was veterans closed
the Nyamandlova sub-offices of the Umguza Rural District Council in
protest against the presence from the MDC whom they believed to be frustrating
land redistribution.
(Source: Herald 17 February 2001.)
- The Umguza Rural
District Council estimates that it lost $2 million over the past week
after a band of war veterans closed its offices accusing its chairman
and councillors of supporting the MDC.
(Source: Standard 18 February 2001.)
- Two workers at
the Post and Telecommunications Corporation (PTC) branch in Centenary
were dismissed from their jobs and evicted from their homes by war veterans,
who accused them of supporting and sympathizing with the MDC.
(Source: Daily News 28 February 2001.)
- War veterans in
Redcliff, a mining town near Kwekwe, closed down four of the municipality’s
offices alleging that the officers were supporters of the MDC.
(Source: Daily News 7 March 2001.)
- Several civil servants
who were suspected of sympathizing with the MDC have been transferred
from Matabeleland. Transfers were at the instigation of war veterans
who have shut most rural district councils in Matabeleland and barred
civil servants from working there.
(Source: Financial Gazette 1 March 2001.)
- War veterans in
Kadoma closed down three offices at the town centre over allegations
that three of the council’s directors supported the opposition MDC party.
(Source: Daily News 12 March 2001.)
- War veterans and
ZANU (PF) supporters have "dismissed" 16 council workers in Marondera,
accusing them of supporting the MDC.
(Source: Daily News 19 March 2001.)
- Pupils at Murambinda
Secondary School thwarted efforts by war veterans to terrorise their
headmaster because of his alleged support of the MDC.
(Source: Standard 15April 2001.)
- War veterans and
ZANU (PF) supporters have chased scores of teachers and civil servants
from their jobs in rural Matabeleland North alleging that they supported
the MDC. The "sacking" of the teachers comes at a time when the Matabeleland
regional office is battling to engage qualified teachers to fill thousands
of vacant posts in most schools.
(Source: Financial Gazette 17 May 2001.)
- Gabriel Karonga,
the MDC vice-chairman for Hurungwe West district, was fired from his
job in Mashonaland West after threats by so-called war veterans.
(Source: Daily News 21 May 2001.)
- Mr. Siambala Bernard
Manyena, an executive officer of the Binga Rural District Council, has
defied an order from his superiors suspending him from duty over his
membership of the MDC.
(Source: Daily News 7 June 2001.)
- The Deputy Minister
of Education said that his Ministry would not provide security to teachers
affected by violence perpetrated by ZANU (PF) supporters.
(Source: Daily News 13 June 2001.)
- War veterans and
ZANU (PF) supporters in Buhera sacked thirty-two teachers and deposed
eight headmen for supporting the MDC.
(Source: Daily News 20 June 2001.)
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