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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

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}

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

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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