The levels of political violence and human rights violations have gone up in the post election period with a total of 4359 cases of human rights violations being documented by Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP). The patterns of violence have also shifted with the violence being more physical with an increase in cases of assault, murder, malicious damage to property, and kidnapping. Cases of harassment and intimidation are still high. Manicaland tops the list of politically motivated violence in the form of displacement. Other areas with high levels of violence include Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central Masvingo and Midlands. The areas where the violence is rampant conform to earlier ZPP predications of hotspots in the pre-election period as outlined in the two Violations Early Warning System (ViEWs) reports published before the polls.