The government has been accused of regional marginalization of Matebeleland by civil human rights groups. This follows the release of statistics of beneficiaries of Beam. This is the state-funded Basic Education Assistance Module which pays school fees for disadvantaged children.
Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights secretary-general, Benedict Sibasa said
The evidence is a clear sign of planned structural regional human rights violations designed to perpetuate and exacerbate social genocide and black-on-black apartheid in Zimbabwe and is a clear violation of constitutional rights and human rights as enshrined in international law.
This allocation matrix is in total violation of the national development principles, especially section 13 subsection (1)(d) of the Constitution.
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