Action
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.
Action Alert: General Strike begins tomorrow, Tuesday 15th April
Sokwanele Article: April 14th, 2008
GENERAL STRIKE:
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change has today called for a general strike in Zimbabwe starting tomorrow (Tuesday, 15 April 2008) after the high court refused to order the immediate release of the presidential election results. Take Action!
These photographs of reprisal attacks by Zanu PF thugs were taken yesterday.
The photograph on the left is of a 22 year old male from Musaruro Village, Mudzi. This is what he said what happened to him: "The ZPF youth came to my shop on Friday 11 April 2008 at 9pm, broke the door down and dragged me out of the building. They said “you are an MDC member”. They took all the groceries from my shop then burned grass on both my hands. After that they beat my hands and back with wooden poles. I went to Kotwa rural district hospital and they gave me 2 paracetamol - they had nothing else.”
The photo on the right is of a 22 year old male from Chibamo Village, Mudzi south. He stated: "15 or so ZPF youth came to my house on Friday 11 April 2008 and started to hit me with fire wood and kick me in the mouth. They beat me on my buttocks, left arm and hand. The perpetrators are known to me (names recorded). They said “why are you supporting MDC, we promise you we are here to vandalise you”.
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We have been waiting for word from our elected leaders on the way forward after the farcical way in which the Presidential results have been withheld from public knowledge by the Zimbabwe Electroal Commission (ZEC).
The word has come and we need to stand by and do what we can to ensure justice and democracy are delivered to Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans.
Action Alert: Emergency meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to be held Saturday 12th April
Sokwanele Article: April 11th, 2008
These photographs were taken the day before yesterday. The two men are MDC MT supporters based on Mashonaland East. They, and others, were viciously assaulted by Zanu PF militia on Tuesday night. Three houses were burned down in the same area in ongoing attacks. This must be stopped!
The Zimbabwean people have spoken in the elections. We said NO to violence and NO to lawlessness. This is a new Zimbabwe: we must not tolerate this abuse of our right to a peaceful democratic country, and this abuse of our people. We must stand together against tyranny. Take Action!
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Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has called an emergency meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to discuss the Zimbabwean presidential poll delay. This is the first move by Zimbabwe's regional neighbours to intervene since the elections on 29th March 2008. President Mwanawasa is the current Chairman of the 14-nation South African Development Community.
