relevant stakeholders to ensure that there is adequate and continuous clean water supply at the two hospitals. On 11 November, the MDC 99 leader Job Sikhala reported that in terms of Section 77 of our national constitution, I have decided to engage Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights to take the government and the Municipality of Chitungwiza, to enforce the right of the people of Chitungwiza to have safe, clean and portable water. Section 77(a) calls upon the state to take reasonable measures to achieve the progressive realization of this right. Rather than for the government to come to pronounce the demolition of people’s homes, we are demanding our right to water as the constitution demands On 1 October, the International Liaison Office of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum published an economic blue print consultation document titled ‘what can Fishmongers do next in Zimbabwe? The document is offline. On 6 November the UN World Food Programme reported that 2.2 million Zimbabweans will be needing food assistance in the pre-harvest period from January to March 2014. The government has gone out to ask for help from the international community In terms of the country’s economic trajectory, n 15 November, MMPZ published a Report that highlighted private media coverage of post election economic decline46. On 17 November the minister of finance said the government would adopt a flexible approach in the implementation of the indigenization policy, which would see foreign investors in crucial sectors such as banking, manufacturing and infrastructural development being spared the requirement of ceding 51% shareholding to the state or indigenous Zimbabweans.47 However on 22 November, it was reported that Economic Empowerment Secretary George Magosvongwe issued a warning in parliament regarding sectors of the economy reserved for blacks: retail and wholesale business, hairdressers, beauty salons, bakers, employment agencies, agriculture, transport, estate agencies and advertising agencies and owners of businesses found without indigenisation compliance certificates would face a fine or imprisonment if they were found to still be operating.48 46 http://www.hrforumzim.org/publications/private-media-finds-zimbabwe-economy-in-decline-mmpz/ 47 http://www.zimbabweelection.com/2013/11/17/govt-further-softens-indigenisation/ 48 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25053618 67