urged to act if any violence resurfaces, and forty such meetings were redone without
incidence.
Outreach in the Province was conducted by teams from Mashonaland East and West,
Harare and Masvingo provinces. These provinces had completed their outreach and
the Select Committee had resolved that Harare and Bulawayo outreach would be
carried out after the rest of the provinces had completed theirs.
Outreach in Harare Metropolitan province was overseen by Hon. Fungai J Majome
and Hon. Flora Buka and were assisted by Mr Alfred Tome, the Provincial
Coordinator together with seven District Coordinators from the seven Districts in the
province. The outcomes of the meetings are clearly indicated in the National and
Provincial Statistical reports as annexures to this report.
2.8.3. Manicaland
The outreach consultation process started on the 21st of June 2010 and ended on the
9th of October 2010, one of the provinces that had the longest outreach period.
During that period, a total of 677 meetings were conducted across 7 Districts in the
province with total attendance of 152 130 people. Attendances were generally high,
especially in Buhera District.
A total of 60 meetings were repeated after the initial meetings could not be concluded
due to violence. Most cases of disruptions due to violence were recorded in Makoni
District. One meeting at Nemaire in Makoni District was completely abandoned after
stones were thrown at team members who were leading the discussion at the meeting.
It was also reported that there were some elements that would go around in
communities giving wrong dates and venues of the advertised meetings. As such,
some meetings were poorly attended. Another problem was that the outreach Team
Leaders in the province did not work well together for some time during the process.
They initially appeared to pull in different directions. The Select Committee members
who supervised the province had a torrid time trying to manage the teams.
There were, however no major accommodation problems in the province as all team
members were housed in Hotels in Mutare, save for the fact that fuel consumption
was the highest as teams travelled long distances to meetings such as in Buhera and
some parts of Chipinge from Mutare Hotels.
The process was supervised by Hon. Senators Monica Mutsvangwa and Hon. Cephas
Makuyana and they were assisted by Provincial Coordinator Mr. F. Mbetsa and seven
District Coordinators in the seven Districts of the province. The outcomes of the
meetings are clearly indicated in the National and Provincial Statistical reports as
annexures to this report.
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