started on 1 March 2015 took three weeks to complete. It is reported that the reason the restructuring exercise took long to complete was because of low turnout whenever a meeting was convened. In Chivi Central, people were reportedly forced to pay $1-00 per person towards the Independence Celebrations. Howard Madungwe and Councillor Munashe Pwanyai of Gwenyaya village moved door to door demanding the money from each household. Matebeleland South A Zanu PF party chairperson Ngazimbi Ncube of Umzingwane, Mawabeni village, ward 5, in Chief Gwebu area forced a female villager who has no known political affiliation to Zanu PF to be co-opted into Zanu PF ward structures against her will. The perpetrator forced the victim to be the ward secretary but she refused and reported to case at Mawabeni Police Station. The police are reported to have warned the perpetrator not to force the victim to take up a Zanu PF post against her will. ZPP failed to get through to the police at Mawabeni police station. Midlands The Chirumanzu-Zibagwe by election to fill the seat left vacant when incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa was appointed vice President after the December 2014 congress was held on March 27. The seat was won by Auxillia Mnangagwa and the run up to the election was characterised by harassment and intimidation. The vice President at one of the rallies to drum up support for his wife threatened those who had plans to vote for other parties. “Nobody comes to vote in the same manner death comes, for death you cannot build a fence to keep it out, but a person who votes we can tell if they are for us or not with us and those who are not ours we will fence them out.” Matebeleland North On 4 March 2015 in Bubi, village 4, ward 2 Lukola at Khumalo homestead Thulani Moyo of the MDC led by Professor Welshman Ncube disrupted a meeting organised by the MDC- T. He threatened the MDC-T chairperson with assault. FOOD AND OTHER FORMS OF AID VIOLATIONS The distribution of farming inputs through the Presidential Agricultural Input Scheme is a programme which is based on the needs of the poor and economic priorities of Zimbabwe as espoused in the economic blue print Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim-Asset). Despite the clear outline of how food security will be achieved through the thrust of the Food security and Nutrition Cluster, food and farming inputs continue to be politicised and distributed along party lines. 6