Table 4: Have you been personally involved as a victim, or perpetrator, or witness?
Victim
Perpetrator
Frequency
Percentage
520
16
7
0.2
71
2
No
2 669
84
3 182
99.8
3 118
98
Total
3 189
100
3 189
3 189
100
Yes
Frequency
Witness
Percentage
Frequency
100
Percentage
Table 5: Were any of your close relatives involved as a victim or as a perpetrator?
Victim
Perpetrator
Frequency
Percentage
851
27
28
1
No
2 338
73
3 161
99
Total
3 189
100
3 189
100
Yes
Frequency
Percentage
Table 6: What was the result of the violation?
To you
Frequency
Death
To your close relative
Percentage
n/a
Minor injury
250
48
Frequency
Percentage
163
19
300
36
Major injury
121
23
211
25
Displacement
143
28
165
19
Can’t remember
Total
6
1
12
1
520
100
851
100
Note: Two per cent of close relatives were affected in other ways, such as retrenchment, destruction of property, psychoemotional problems, loss of livestock, and coercion to vote for or to attend meetings of particular political parties.
Table 7 explores the results of violations in the different provinces. The highlights are as
follows:
• Matabeleland South and Mashonaland East provinces reported the highest number of
violations that happened to the respondents themselves, and respondents from Bulawayo,
Mashonaland East, Masvingo, Harare and Matabeleland North reported the highest number
of violations to relatives. All provinces reported that in some cases violations resulted in the
death of the victim, though Bulawayo and Matabeleland South reported the highest number
of cases resulting in death.
• Mashonaland Central province emerged as the one with the lowest reported violence rate,
with less than 6 per cent of respondents reporting cases of violence in all categories to
themselves or to their relatives.
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