The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) said it regarded Mugabe’s government as illegitimate after it lost elections to the opposition and said Thursday’s meeting finalised plans for huge anti-Mugabe protests to be held in South Africa.
The move by COSATU to mobilise pressure against Mugabe’s government came as Zimbabwe’s church leaders warned this week that rising post-election violence in the country could reach genocidal proportions.
The leaders of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the Zimbabwe Council of Churches – the three main representative bodies for Christians in Zimbabwe – called on African leaders and the United Nations to intervene to stop the country sliding into another African killing field.
COSATU – which called on SADC and the African Union to withdraw recognition of Mugabe’s government – did not say whether it would also call protests against Mbeki’s policy of quiet diplomacy towards Harare. – ZimOnline.
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