26 See the Mail & Guardian, ―Zimbabwe police arresting 200 daily‖, 8 August 2005. 27 See in the Constitutional Court of South Africa , Port Elizabeth Municipality v Various Occupiers CCT 53/03, Decided on 1 October 2004. 28 See again, Justice Albie Sachs, in the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Port Elizabeth v. Various Occupiers (CCT 53/03). 29 See General Comment No. 7 of 1997 of the Committee on the Economic, Social and Cultural Covenant of the UN. 30 See Zimbabwe Independent, 'Police blitz unlawful', 13 August 2005. 31 This is an estimate from the economics department of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions [ZCTU]. 32 A World Bank director recently said that Zimbabwe‘s rapid economic decline over the past six years is likely unprecedented for a country not at war. He attributed the deterioration to poor government policies. 33 President Mugabe is quoted at having said the people had joy that they would be provided with decent accommodation. 34 See Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace/ Legal Resources Foundation Breaking the Silence. Building True Peace: A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands, 1980 to 1988 (Harare, Zimbabwe, 1997) 35 See Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum A Consolidated Report on the Food Riots, 19-23 January 1998, Report compiled by the Amani Trust on behalf of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (Harare, Zimbabwe, 1999) 36 It is estimated that up to 400 000 farm workers were displaced. 37 See Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum Evaluating the Abuja Agreement (Harare Zimbabwe 2001). 38 See Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum Evaluating the Abuja Agreement: Two Months Report (Harare Zimbabwe 2001). 39 The Human Rights Forum concluded in its final report on the Abuja Agreement, submitted prior to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2003 that: ―The majority of evidence seems to indicate that the Zimbabwe Government has failed to abide by Commonwealth Principles enshrined in the Harare Declaration, the Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme on the Harare Declaration, the Abuja Agreement itself and subsequent communiqués in the form of the Marlborough House Statement on Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Mid-Term Review Statement‖. Here see Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum Zimbabwe, the Abuja Agreement and Commonwealth Principles: Compliance or Disregard? 8 September 2003, (Harare Zimbabwe 2003) 40 See Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, A Consolidated Report on the Food Riots 19—23 January 1998 , HARARE: ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM. 41 Torture by the Zimbabwe Republic Police has been reported upon in the past. Here see Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum Torture by State Agents in Zimbabwe: January 2001 to August 2002 (Harare Zimbabwe 2003) 42 See Redress Trust The Case of Henry Dowa: The United Nations and Zimbabwe under the spotlight, January 2004. 43 See Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (2000), Who is responsible? A preliminary analysis of pre-election violence in Zimbabwe, HARARE: ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM. See also Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (2001), Who was responsible? A consolidated analysis of pre-election violence in Zimbabwe, HARARE: ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM. See again Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (2002), ―Are They Accountable?: Examining alleged violators and their violations pre and post the Presidential Election March 2002‖, HARARE: ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM.