ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ the Commission or the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission or are otherwise brought to their attention. (3) Immediately after an election is called, the Judicial Service Commission shall designate one or more magistrates in each province in which the election is to be held, to try cases involving politically-motivated violence and intimidation, and the magistrates so designated shall give priority to all such cases and ensure that they are brought to trial and completed as expeditiously as possible. (4) The Prosecutor-General shall ensure that during every election period sufficient competent prosecutors are provided to ensure that all cases of politically-motivated violence and intimidation arising within the area in which the election is being held are processed quickly and brought to court as soon as possible before the magistrates designated in terms of subsection (3). [Subsection amended by Act 5 of 2014 (Part III of Fourth Schedule)] 133K Special penalty for politically-motivated violence or intimidation (1) A court which convicts a person of an offence involving politically-motivated violence or intimidation committed during an election period may, in addition to any other penalty it imposes on the convicted person, prohibit him or her from campaigning or taking any further part in the election. (2) Where a person has been prohibited in terms of subsection (1) from campaigning or taking any further part in an election, that person shall not, during the election period— (a) attend or address any meeting of a political nature at which more than three other persons are present; or (b) encourage, urge or persuade any other person to cast his or her vote in the election for a particular political party or candidate; but the person may vote in the election and, if he or she has been duly nominated as a candidate in the election, his or her name may appear on the ballot-papers in the election. (3) Any person who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level six or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment. (4) Where a magistrates court convicts a person of an offence involving politicallymotivated violence or intimidation committed during an election period, the court may adjourn the case in terms of section 54(2) of the Magistrates Court Act [Chapter 7:10] and, if the case is thereafter transferred to the High Court for sentence in terms of section 224 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07], the High Court may, in addition to any other penalty it imposes on the convicted person, declare him or her to be incapable, for a period not exceeding five years from the date of the conviction, of— (a) being registered as a voter or of voting at an election; or (b) filling a public office, other than a public office the tenure of which is regulated exclusively by or in terms of the Constitution; and, if the convicted person holds any such public office, the High Court may declare that the office shall be vacated by him or her as from the date of the conviction. [Part XVIIIB inserted by s. 33 of Act No. 3 of 2012] PART XIX CORRUPT PRACTICES 134 Undue influence (1) Any person who, directly or indirectly, by himself or herself or by any other person— (a) makes use of or threatens to make use of any force, violence or restraint upon or against any person; or 118