Diaspora
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
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List 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!
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- Written by: Chief (Inkosi) Felix Nhlanhla Ndiweni, John Burke and Moses MBANO
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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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The 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 -