secretly in Zimbabwe shown on the BBC on Thursday, including many passers-by who expressed great anxiety about the situation in Zimbabwe.
Representatives of the Vigil were invited to watch the programme with the reporter responsible who was horrified to see how the situation has deteriorated. One image from her report that struck everyone’s heart was the picture of a starving child whose skin was coming off and whose hair was falling out. Zimbabwe is certainly not fading from the news.
Our fifth anniversary commemoration on October 13 will be marked by handing over A PETITION TO EUROPEAN UNION GOVERNMENTS: We record our dismay at the failure of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to help the desperate people of Zimbabwe at their time of trial. We urge the UK government, and the European Union in general, to suspend government to government aid to all 14 SADC countries until they abide by their joint commitment to uphold human rights in the region.”
We recognize this is a controversial demand but we have canvassed widely and received strong support. People are aware than Mozambique is boosting its power supply to Zimbabwe despite unpaid bills and that other SADC countries are helping to keep Mugabe in power. These countries look to the West for budgetary support. We say stop giving them our taxes and use the money instead to help the starving people in Zimbabwe who are ignored by SADC governments.
News from our friends in Belfast: the Zimbabwe Solidarity Campaign (ZSC) met with several Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) at Stormont, the Northern Ireland Parliament, to present a petition calling on the UK government to take action on the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe. The ZSC updated the MLAs on Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis. The petition was signed by several MLAs, including the first minister Ian Paisley, Carmel Hanna, Jeffrey Donaldson, Ian Paisley Jnr. and many more. Carmel Hanna has invited the ZSC to discuss Zimbabwe with the All-Party Group on International Development.
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