Gasa is on the 14th day of a 21-day hunger strike to "help the people of Zimbabwe by highlighting the issue of hunger".
"A lot of people in Zimbabwe go without food and they don't have a
choice. So some of us are choosing not to eat as an act of solidarity,"
Gasa said.
She is the second person to go on hunger strike with the Save Zimbabwe Now organisation.
The first was global civil society organisation Civicus honorary
president Kumi Naidoo, who ended his 21-day hunger strike on February
11, at which point Gasa began hers.
She will finish her hunger strike on March 3 when Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza is due to begin his.
Wellman said many others, among them Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu,
had gone on one-day a week hunger strikes to demonstrate solidarity
with the people of Zimbabwe.
Gasa said Save Zimbabwe Now was prepared to continue the hunger-strikes.
"When it will stop, we don't know," she said.
The Times (SA) (SAPA)
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