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Zimbabwe in crisis: SA calls for harsh action against police brutality [video]

#FreeZimbabwe is a united call from Africa.

Andile Sicetsha by Andile Sicetsha
Apr 12, 2021
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Photo: Sourced from @mdcwelfare / Twitter

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If you know anything about the supposed emancipation of Zimbabwe from the long-drawn-out rule of the late president Robert Mugabe, then you would have anticipated the current state of our neighbouring country.

This weekend, a flood of videos and images coming from the streets of Harare, the nation’s capital, made its way to social media, showing how the Zimbabwean government has, for the past week, used the police to intimidate and disrupt peaceful protests.

The picketing was a direct response to the government’s widely condemned announcement of a $3.5 billion (R51.2 billion) agreement to compensate white farmers.

Watch: Zimbabwe peaceful protests disrupted by police

Three years into his tenure and President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to uplift Zimbabwe from rampant poverty and grand-scale corruption.

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A democracy, which Zimbabwe claims to be, thrives on the notion that citizens who elect its government have the right to challenge its status quo by means of planned and peaceful protests.

This was the case and as you will see in the videos below, protesters were hardly granted the leniency to practice their democratic right.

The situation in #Zimbabwe has moved to another level.

Police brutality is one of the reasons for #JULY31.@PoliceZimbabwe pic.twitter.com/s98aKHPn8z

— Team Pachedu ?? Register to vote! (@PacheduZW) July 30, 2020

To those who do not know the Zimbabwe Police @PoliceZimbabwe

The force is an armed, quasi-military organisation, which is modelled more along the lines of a paramilitary or a military gendarmerie than a civilian police force#ZimbabweanLivesMatter#ZimbabweanLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/7p3uGpsHQR

— Zandile (@maDube_) August 2, 2020

Zimbabwe now a military state: Situation in Bulawayo metropolitan right now. #ZanupfMustGo pic.twitter.com/JUBfhKbRw9

— Gift Ostallos Siziba (@Cde_Ostallos) August 2, 2020

South Africa calls for harsh action against Zim

Understanding that Zimbabwe is a sovereign state, there is not much anyone can do to intervene, politically speaking.

The country is still sanctioned by Western worlds and by virtue of its geography and other complex bureaucracies, it’s impossible to remove Zimbabwe from the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Former leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) Mmusi Maimane raised awareness to the injustices taking place in Zimbabwe, as early as Friday 31 July 2020, when he shared a video of a soldier beating an unarmed protester to a palp.

Let us not ignore what is happening right next door. @_AfricanUnion @MYANC @EFFSouthAfrica @Julius_S_Malema @CyrilRamaphosa @MbalulaFikile @Lesufi

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”― Edmund Burke https://t.co/DDpZDHByHi

— Mmusi Maimane (@MmusiMaimane) July 31, 2020

Since then, prominent South African voices have stepped forward and condemned the callous actions of the Zimbabwean government.

Here are some of the tweets we picked out from some of the trending hashtags around the current affairs of our neighbours:

Let's the world know what's happening in Zimbabwe #PrayForZimbabwe ??✊? pic.twitter.com/gPdKH44jgK

— N T O K O ♌ (@_RealNtokoM) August 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/lemdzabu/status/1290043404630536197?s=20
https://twitter.com/lemdzabu/status/1290048711570030592?s=20

We truly cannot ignore what's happening to our brothers and sisters in Zimbabwe. The police brutality and evil taking place there just cannot be ignored. #PrayforZimbabwe #FreeZimbabwe #ZimbabweanLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/6w63U5QUlV

— Kelebogile Ramokgopa (@LeboRamokgopa) August 3, 2020

With so much against us already as Black Africans all we got is each other let's not be against one another. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter ??

— Zakes Bantwini (@ZakesBantwiniSA) August 2, 2020

Man, I really wish we knew how … because I’m my opinion posting some shit on social media doesn’t exactly bring about any significant progress either. https://t.co/kzreOggpt6

— AKA (@akaworldwide) August 2, 2020

Stand Up for Zimbabweans… ✊?.. The real revolutionaries will bring changes to all Zimbabwean lives.. https://t.co/ZTreqSmyRW

— BENZA (@raphaelbenza) August 2, 2020
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