6 Figure 2 Comparison of press and case reports, Temporal distribution, 2000 to 2006 40 Percentage of total 35 30 25 press 20 case 15 10 5 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Year *12 It should be pointed out that the two data sets in Figure 2 differ in 2000 as the Human Rights Forum was only recently established, so most of the reports were from the press domain. After 12 September 2003, there was no more reporting of any kind from the Daily News newspaper, and it can be seen that there is indeed a steep decline from 2003 in reports about violations to women in the press domain. There was extremely strong agreement between the two data sets in respect of the violations. As can be seen from Figure 3 [over], the violence reported ranged from assault, arson, property destruction, indecent assault, rape, death threats, political intimidation, disappearance, displacement, kidnapping and torture. Assault was the most common offence reported, and this mostly involved beatings of one kind or another. 12 There was no correlation between the two data sets as regards temporal distribution [0.009]. “A Woman’s Place is in the Home ?” – Gender Based Violence and Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe.

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