Sokwanele
Entries that are general announcement or mailings about our group and our work.
Agreement of 15 September 2008 : Highlighting Incidences of Non-Compliance
Sokwanele Article: November 7th, 2008"I sincerely hope that President Mugabe will no longer disappoint the international community… the crisis talks have been taking too long."
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 29 October 2008
Introduction
On Monday 15 September 2008, a historic agreement was signed in Harare between the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu PF) and the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Formations on resolving the challenges facing Zimbabwe.
The agreement comprises 25 "Articles" and lists the points of agreement reached under each.
The preamble acknowledges "the challenges that we have faced as a country and the multiple threats to the well-being of our people and, therefore, to resolve these permanently."
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!
TAKE ACTION
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.
Zimbabwe will never be a colony again
Sokwanele Article: May 15th, 2007That is because it has already been over colonised starting with the British who swapped flags with us on 18 April 1980, followed by the North Koreans who helped us decimate our population by 20 000 people, then very briefly the Malaysians. After that, there was a lull until Ghadaffi took a short walk to colonialism across the bridge at the Chirundu border post. Driving to Harare, his beady eye caught sight of rolling farmland after rolling farmland. He even stopped along the way to announce to bemused peasants that he was now lord of the revolution. By the time he reached Harare the ink was barely dry on the deals that mortgaged Zimbabwean land for oil that never provided the much-touted panacea to self-inflicted Zimbabwean economic ills.
Then Ghadaffi let down our dear leader by selling out to the west and going to bed with Blair.
