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BY OUR STAFF
MDC-T has called on Zimbabweans in the Diaspora to come out in their thousands and show support for world-wide protests against President Robert Mugabe’s rule.
The protests, christened the 21st Movement’s Free Zimbabwe Global Protests, will be held on the same day the ageing leader, who turns 88 next week, will be celebrating his birthday.
The chairman of the United States External Assembly of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) Den Moyo said the protests were a sequel to those held in January where petitions were handed over to SA diplomats in the US, UK, Australia, Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland and the South African government in Pretoria.
“The exiled Zimbabweans plan mock birthday parties in front of all South African Embassies, Consulate Missions, Union Buildings and Parliament in peaceful protests against misrule, endemic corruption and are demanding reforms that will allow an environment for free and fair elections to be held,” said Moyo in a statement.
Mugabe is the oldest surviving African leader who is renowned for lavish and extravagant birthday parties while the country’s economy is in ruins with unemployment rate above 90% and the majority living below the poverty datum line.
It is estimated that there are over five million Zimbabweans in the Diaspora, who fled Zimbabwe over the past 12 years as a result of violent rule and increased repression.
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