Global Zimbabwe Forum USA network

This is the price for opposing Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe today

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For North America Contact:

Canada: Canaan Mhlanga  (604) 461 3072 surehope7@yahoo.com

USA: Stanford Mukasa  (724) 467 0001 or email:   mukasa@iup.edu

Specifically, we call on the African Union to demand that President Mugabe
1. respects and implements the SADC protocol for conducting elections;
2. implements BEFORE elections the agreements so far reached with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change;
3. allows Zimbabweans in Diaspora to vote;
4. postpones elections to at least June to allow for the leveling of the playing field for elections;
5. Allows members of the opposition movement and civil society to hold their rallies and protests without harassment and assaults from President Mugabe’s police and army.February 19, 2008

Global Zimbabwe Forum for North America will launch  a campaign  for Zimbabweans in Diaspora to be allowed to vote in the elections scheduled for March 29.

 

The campaign is planned for February 22  at 11 a.m. outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in Washington DC.  It will include a petition to the Zimbabwean and South African embassies to the US, as well as a symbolic vote outside the Zimbabwe embassy.

 

 

GZF is appealing to Zimbabweans in Diaspora and friends to make every effort to come to the embassy in Washington DC to support the campaign.  The embassy is located at 1608 New Hampshire Ave Washington, DC.

 

GZF was launched in South Africa  last year. It is aimed at mobilizing Zimbabweans in Diaspora and friends to campaign for the return of the rule of law, democracy, freedom of the press and free and fair elections in Zimbabwe.

 

Zimbabweans in Diaspora remit nearly US$1 million a DAY to Zimbabwe to help their destitute families and relatives.

 

This makes the Diaspora remittances the second largest foreign currency earner for Zimbabwe!

 

The Robert Mugabe regime has destroyed the country’s economy and social institutions.

 

Basic human rights are non existent for most Zimbabweans.

 

About half the Zimbabweans are now TOTALLY dependent on the Diaspora remittances.

 

There are about 4 million Zimbabweans living outside their country.

 

This is about 40 percent of the Zimbabwean population.

 

No election can ever be free or fair if the Zimbabweans in Diaspora are denied their right to vote.

 

The despotic and dictatorial regime of Robert Mugabe has so far REFUSED to allow the Zimbabweans in Diaspora to vote.

 

Zimbabweans in Diaspora have the ECONOMIC power and power in NUMBERS to DEMAND their right to vote.

 

The Global Zimbabwe Forum has begun a mass mobilization of Zimbabweans in Diaspora to CLAIM their right to vote in the next elections.

 

Mugabe cannot have it both ways. He cannot benefit from the foreign currency remittances from the Zimbabweans in Diaspora, and, at the same time, deny the Diaspora’s right to vote.

 

Zimbabweans in Diaspora must now mobilize to make Mugabe history.

 

No Diaspora Vote, No Free and Fair elections, No popular participation in the elections!