15th Free Zimbabwe protest set for Saturday

Posted by on Friday, March 22, 2013 in Protest, Zimbabwe politics | 9 comments

By Alex Bell
22 March 2013

Zimbabweans around the world will be protesting outside Zim embassies on Saturday, as part of the Free Zimbabwe Global Protest movement.

Now in its 15th month, the protest action takes place every month, calling for real change in Zimbabwe.

Dubbed the 21st Movement, the protests have targeted Zimbabwean embassies around the world as well as the embassies of key Southern African nations involved in solving the Zimbabwe crisis. This has included South Africa, Mozambique and others.

This weekend the protests are again being organised to take place outside Zimbabwe embassies, to raise public awareness about the situation back home.

According to a statement by the protest’s organisers, “the road-map to free and fair elections that we have travelled for the past four years is now under severe threat from a regime that refuses to relinquish power against the people’s will.”

“Violence against innocent citizens has erupted in Zimbabwe as we head toward the watershed elections. Unlawful arrests of human rights defenders, NGO officers, journalists and opposition party members are on the increase soon after a successful referendum that will usher in a new constitution,” the statement reads.

The group has listed its demands that they will issue at its protests:

1. Mugabe should free all political prisoners including human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, MDC Officials, Journalists, NGO Officers and the Glen View Five.
2. Stop the kind of violence that claimed young Christpowers Maisiri’s life among many others.
3. Condemn in the strongest terms possible the partisan behaviour of the police.
4. Demand that soldiers be confined to the barracks and not be involved in the election process at all.
5. Demand a new voters roll that is not tainted with dead and fictitious people.
6. Stop the ban on portable radios, and free the airwaves for all political parties to campaign freely.
7. Demand tangible action by SADC that guarantees the protection of the vote and the voter.
8. Request that the international community put pressure on Zimbabwe to grant accreditation to their election monitors.
9. Demand the UN to deploy a peacekeeping force to prevent further bloodshed.
10. Stop the nefarious looting of the country’s natural resources by corrupt government officials who are facing the exit door after elections.

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  • Chimbwido Warvet

    That is what the Europeans and Americans do. From slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism the modus operandi is more or less the same, the only difference being that at present they use more sophisticated approaches to oppress and exploit the African people. In the past they sent missionaries to Africa with view to changing the mind-set of the African people to think in ways that promoted the economic and political interests of their slave and colonial masters. Today they will finance local instruments/tools like these ones to cause strive in the country with view to finding an excuse for the European and Americans intervening in the internal affairs of an independent country. The idea in all cases will be to create a conducive atmosphere where a political leader who would best serve their economic and political interests is installed in the country. They have done it in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Côte d’Ivoire and they are currently fighting to do the same in Chad with France in the lead to impose its will on the people of this country. That is diabolic and evil.

  • Chimbwido Warvet

    That is what the Europeans and Americans do. From slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism the modus operandi is more or less the same, the only difference being that at present they use more sophisticated approaches to oppress and exploit the African people. In the past they sent missionaries to Africa with view to changing the mind-set of the African people to think in ways that promoted the economic and political interests of their slave and colonial masters. Today they will finance local instruments/tools like these ones to cause strife in the country with view to finding an excuse for the European and Americans intervening in the internal affairs of an independent country. The idea in all cases will be to create a conducive atmosphere where a political leader who would best serve their economic and political interests is installed in the country. They have done it in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Côte d’Ivoire and they are currently fighting to do the same in Chad with France in the lead to impose its will on the people of this country. That is diabolic and evil are willing to be used against their own people. Some of them do it unknowingly and yet others do it for financial gain.

    • dumbu

      I think you are currently outside our country Zimbabwe, that is why you are writing such rubbish. May be you are in China safeguarding your boss` mansion and his daughter. No normal human Zimbabwean can say what you are writing. Ask us for the situation in our country now so that we can tell you the truth. Stop barking such nonsense my brother.

      • Chimbwido Warvet

        You have created the situation by allowing foreigners to use you and now you want to cry foul. That is stupid and foolish mate. Stop asking other countries to apply economic sanctions against your country and promote each other and you will be ok. You have all the natural resources and human capital in the country that should make everyone happy but the lot of you are so stupid and foolish. Muchadya izvozvo blazo zvekusosevenzeswa nemabhunu muchidyiwa sehove dzematemba dzinobikwa maziso akavurika. Murimatuvi ambuya

        • dumbu

          Which foreigners are you talking about ? I am living peacefully in my farm now in Zimbabwe, it will be more peacefully the day Mugabe leaves office my friend. Stop barking like the late Chenjerai Hunzvi.

          • Chimbwido Warvet

            That is why you are so foolish and stupid if you can not see what is glaringly seen from a distance. You say, you are in the country and yet you can not see the game that is being played right before your eyes. You need to open your eyes wider, you fu…g fool and idiot. You are so slow in walking and thinking like a tortoise, that is why you can not see the obvious. Wake up, move fast and smell the coffee we are all enjoying, mwanawamai.

          • dumbu

            Thank you for displaying your foolishness and ignoromous. Thank you for displaying your real picture. You are a real tortoise in your thinking and behaviour. Which coffee are you enjoying? Zidununu rinoshandiswa nevakangwara. Hameno kuti kuhondo kwaunoti wakaenda kana chiri chokwadi. Iwe uri zifuza rokupedzisira. ZANU(PF) yakakuodza pfungwa zvino hauchaziva chokuita .

          • Chimbwido Warvet

            I can be your tutor young man. Your level of education seems to be very basic. It is no wonder you get used by others without realising it. Besides, it seems to me your mannerisms resemble those of a chameleon shown below. I am a lover of animals, but like you, a chameleon is slow in walking and I guess, in thinking too.

            You see, I have told you on numerous occasions that I do not represent ZANU PF and neither am I a member of the ruling political party of Zimbabwe. I am a libertarian although I share some of the philosophies of the ruling party, for instance, on issues relating to the land question and the need for the indigenous people to own and control their economy. Next time you talk about me having a relationship with ZANU PF should be based on these two fundamental questions and nothing else if you do not want to pick an unnecessary fight with me. Get this in your greasy head and we will be friends once more.

  • Cam Jennings

    Firstly, I have read the comments and appreciate the vivid discussion.It has been discussed outside of Zimbabwe and the new government has been carefully selected already. None of the comments mention the military right of veto in the democratisation process. Also worthy of note is that the comments about colonisation which is history, and can not be changed, sad but true.

    There is also no mention of PRC in Zimbabwe.

    Not once is there mention of SADC and the relationship between RSA and Zimbabwe.

    History will decide who is the victor here.

    One last note…mock the man and not the argument…that is a fight…find flaws in the assumption and wage war on concept, ideas and arguments…not people.

    It is GNU II post election.