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Essential Principles "Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. . . . The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures."

Article 21, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

30 Months of Petitions

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Written by: John Burke
Published: 22 March 2025
Last Updated: 22 March 2025
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  • FCDO Meetings
  • Summary of Petitions
Protests at the Zimbabwe EmbassyList of Petitions Delivered since 18th August 2022 to 5th march 2025:

Also See Joint Press Release dated 21st March 2025: CLICK HERE for Press Release

The diaspora has been active in pushing for Zimbabwe's Justice, Economic Stability, Free & Fair Elections, Human Rights, Constitution and an Independent Judiciary for the last 30 months. However, intimidation, violence and corruption have still plagued Zimbabwe, since it was pointed out that Mnangagwa and Zanu PF would "DESTABILISE" the Region due to his upcoming Chairmanship - which indeed has happened - not that we are happy about it! As the regime often claims. The Diaspora are extremely patriotic!

Our contacts, within and without of Zimbabwe, all conclude the same thing - Zimbabwe is NOT A DEMOCRACY. It fails on every metric that applies to a democracy. Indeed, we have posited that there is only a masquerade of a democracy in Zimbabwe in several articles - some with the deep research assistance of AI {Twitter's GROK3 and the super 'slim' Chinese DeepSeek} CLICK HERE to read and CLICK HERE for Testing a Democracy by measuring how many days in prison do activists have to serve? Again, AI helps tremendously with deep analytical measurement and "considered" estimations - based on existing data!

But the most telling problem is one of Free and Fair Elections - let us never forget that the DIASPORA has not got a VOTE So the regime keeps on fabricating excuses as to why they cannot organise a diaspora vote - so we have provided examples of HOW IT COULD BE DONE! Thank you. Thus, our recent Electoral Reform Petition on the 5th March 2025 proposes a phone App based Block-Chain Voting system - for immutable and fast voting results. See that petition below in the grid of the events and petitions we have been involved in.

Again using AI, we have delved into the size of the diaspora and its potential to change Zimbabwe - whether internally or even externally see this considered debate by ourselves and AI - CLICK HERE on our ZEXIT Platform {as the separation of Zanu PF from Zimbabwe}

Date Delivered Subject MatterWeb Web-Link to Petition Write Up Article - Link Photo Logs
25th February 2023  Job Sikhala Detention Protest    25th Feb 2023 the outcomes Photo Album 25/2/2023
16th March 2023  Petition marking 275 Days in Detention  Job Sikhala Release Plea  Downing Street Petition Photo Album 16th March 2023
18th April 2023  Independence Day  SADC Member Petitions  Days Write Up  Photo Album 18th Apr 2023
19th April 2023  Job Sikhala Lord's Protest - 309 days      Photo Album 19th Apr 2023
15th September 2023  New Fair Elections Please?  Petition Delivered  The Day of Delivery  Photo Album 15th Sept 2023
13th December 2023  Electorial Fraud - Mnangagwa not President  Petition Delivered  The Days Events  Photo Album 23th Dec 2023
22nd January 2024  Job Sikhala Sponteneous Demo    Testimony for Job Sikhala  Photo Album 22nd Jan 2024
30th May 2024  PVO Bill to Outlaw Opinions  Petition Delivered  The Run Up to the Petition  Photo Album 30th May 2024
19th July 2024  Ongoing Constitutional Injustice  Petition Delivered  The Events of the day  Photo Album 19th Jul 2024
16th August 2024  SADC Visit to Zimbabwe - Instability!  Petition Delivered  Days Write Up  Photo Album 16th Aug 2024
24th October 2024  Constitutional Injustice  Petition Delivered  Write Up of this Double Event  Photo Albums 24th Oct 2024
24th October 2024  Maternal Mortality  Petition Delivered  More Photos of the Day  Photo Albums 24th Oct 2024
5th December 2024  Gukurahundi Genocide Revisited  Petition Delivered  The Day Itself  Photo Album 5th Dec 2024
20th February 2025  No to ED2030 - Honour the Constitution  Petition Delivered  The Day's Events  Photo Album 20th Feb 2025
5th March 2025  Electoral Reform/Blockchain Diaspora Voting  Petition Delivered  Write Up of the Day's Events  Photo Album 5th Mar 2025
18th April 2025  45 years of "Independence"       Not yet there!
         

 

So, in summary the grid above gives a 'flavour' of the various activisms {and this is not all of the activity either} that we have carried out over the last 30 months - since our last visit to the FCDO {Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office}. Let us see what can be achieved over the next 30 months!

Democracy and Voting

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Written by: Chief (Inkosi) Felix Nhlanhla Ndiweni, John Burke and Moses MBANO
Published: 14 November 2024
Last Updated: 14 November 2024
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  • Free Fair and Regular
  • Consent to be governed

If consent of the governed is the most fundamental concept of democracy, its most essential right is that of citizens to choose their leaders in free, fair, and regular elections. Other rights are necessary to democracy; elections by themselves are insufficient.

Yet the right to freely elect one's representatives and to influence the political direction of one's government is democracy's indispensable political foundation.

Without free elections, there is neither the possibility for citizens to express their will nor the opportunity for citizens to change their leaders, approve policies for the country, address wrongs, or protest the limitation of their rights. Elections establish the citizenry's and the individual's political rights. They are the ongoing representation of the consent of the governed (see previous section).

Around the world, millions of people have braved violence, intimidation, and other obstacles to demand the right to express their will through the ballot box. Often, students and youth have played leading roles in this worldwide epic, such as the Otpor movement in Serbia, which helped to overthrow the dictator Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, or the Iranian Green Revolution, which protested the stealing of elections in 2009. In the United States, young people played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement, including thousands of students who challenged segregation throughout the South or volunteered to register black citizens to vote.

Representative and Electoral Systems

The majority of democracies have chosen to establish parliamentary systems, in which elections for the legislature also determine the party in control of the executive branch. This means that the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats in parliament forms the government. (Although there are occasions of minority coalitions forming governments, they typically have majority support in parliament.) In a presidential system, such as in the United States, or in a mixed presidential-parliamentary system, such as in France and Poland, there are separate elections for the head of the executive branch and the legislature. Although parliamentary systems may reflect more directly the citizens' will, presidential or mixed systems may provide greater checks and balances on the exercise of power (see also Constitutional Limits).

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Demonstrators View 24th Oct 2024

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Written by: Henry Makambe and John Burke
Published: 30 October 2024
Last Updated: 14 November 2024
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  • Injustice
  • Zanu PF Chaos
  • Petition Update

Me as photographer 24th Oct 2024 PetitionsThe Dual petition handover was a 'first' as organised by ZHRO and CCC Manchester, that injustice is happening in Zimbabwe across many aspects of everyday life - from delivering children to political freedoms - or lack thereof.

Dickson, Tendai, Model, Simbarasche, Greatman and Kelvin {see photo} delivered the 24 page written petition to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer at 13:30 Thursday 24th October 2024 {and an additional copy was e-mailed to Robert Ison on the Zimbabwe Desk round the corner at the FCDO}

The hand over of these two petitions is sending a strong message that things are problematic for the citizens in Zimbabwe {non Zanu PF citizens - as those get their medacl attention overseas - and they control all the legal aspects}.

The women's group later in the day {at 14:30} handed over a petition looking at the terrible situation with maternal mortality and childhood related fatalities. These were Melody, Josephine, Jane, Diana and helped by their Organiser Ronald {see the days write up below}.

Three of the lady petitioners have already provided feedback on how they felt the day within the gates of Downing Street had meant to them, more will follow.

Phillis Melody {CLICK HERE to read her reaction}
Josephine {CLICK HERE to read this report}
Jane Mundangepfupfu's reaction is within the body of the write up of the 24th October 2024, as is further writing from Josephine Jenje-Mudimbu.

That full report can be found at this link {CLICK HERE} from the petitions I should like to quote the following extracts and facts from the full written petition regarding the Constitutional and other Injustices within Zimbabwe -

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Zimbabwe

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Written by: John Burke
Published: 15 February 2023
Last Updated: 15 February 2023
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