Three days of protest outside the Zimbabwe Embassy.

Exiled Zimbabweans and supporters are taking part in three days of demonstrations outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in London in protest at the rigging of the Zimbabwe elections.

1.   Thursday, 17th April, 10 am – 4 pm.  MDC UK is gathering outside the Embassy in protest over Mugabe’s undemocratic clinging to power. For more information contact: Jaison Matewu 07816 619 788, Owen Mtombeni 07780 544 181.

2.   Friday, 18th April, 12.30 – 2 pm. Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) is calling on supporters to demonstrate for democracy on Zimbabwe’s Independence Day.  For more information visit:  http://actsa.org/page-1312-DemonstrationforDemocracyinZimbabwe.html.  ACTSA will be supported by the trade unions and would really like Vigil support to make it a Zimbabwean protest.  We will be there with our banners.

3.   Saturday, 19th April, 2 – 6 pm. The Vigil will be protesting about the planned recounting of Parlliamentary and Presidential votes by Zanu PF.  We will be relaunching our petition calling on EU governments to suspend aid to SADC countries and instead finance the starving in Zimbabwe.  The Vigil’s musicians will be taking centre stage. We will have with us Lucky Moyo of Black Umfolozi fame who has made a special request to Zimbabwean musicians in the UK to come to the Vigil and speak out on the situation in Zimbabwe. He says as much as we may want to be apolitical we are social commentators. We must play a part by reflecting in song what pathways our society has taken over the last 28 years. His call has been echoed by Willard Karanga, formerly of Thomas Mapfumo’s band, who will also be with us. The event will be covered by SW Radio Africa.

The Mugabe regime is unleashing a new campaign of terror and violence on the people of Zimbabwe.  

Every day Mugabe remains in power is one more day of suffering.