Elections
Action Alert: United Nations Security Council to be briefed on the Zimbabwe crisis on Tuesday 29th April 2008
Sokwanele Article: April 28th, 2008
The image on the right is of Tapiwa Mubwanda, the first MDC party official to be murdered by Zanu PF thugs.
We encourage all Zimbabweans to start speaking out and lobbying people around the world in your individual capacities. Sokwanele has set up an 'Action Contact Database' where we are collecting a range of contact names, useful for Zimbabwe email action initiatives, that Zimbabweans can easily find and use towards promoting non violent change in Zimbabwe. Please use it to find contact details so that you can speak out and tell people around the world what is happening in our country.
It is more than a month since the elections were held on March 29th 2008, and we are still waiting for the Presidential results.
Meanwhile, Zanu PF has embarked on a campaign of terror and intimidation in the rural areas against opposition supporters. There have been at least ten murders so far.
State orchestrated torture in Zimbabwe
Sokwanele Article: April 22nd, 2008
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Images taken on 20 April 2008
The email message accompanying these images read:
The attached pics are of a young man (38) from Dzivarasekwa, Harare who was abducted by “soldiers” militia in full combat camoflage kit with fringed hats who beat him for hours with chains and fan belts on his back and chest. Also on his feet and hands.
The reason for this terrible beating is that he transported MDC supporters to the pre election rallies.
Independence Day : 18 April 2008
Sokwanele Article: April 18th, 2008
To my fellow Zimbabweans I cannot speak to you on the national media, but I speak to you from my heart - that freedom comes and your voice and your vote shall be heard.
Morgan Tsvangirai, 17 April 2008
Statement made by President Morgan Tsvangirai: 17 April 2008
Today on the eve of Independence Day in Zimbabwe, I'm here to thank the World for the help you are giving the liberation struggle of our nation.
This is, in many ways, the saddest Independence Day since our independence from colonial rule in 1980.
Our people are literally starving; Zimbabwe is amongst the worst humanitarian crisis of this new century.
Our humanitarian crisis has political roots, and that gives us hope, because political problems have political solutions.
