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For the record, a 'donation' is 'a voluntary gift (as of money, service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause' or an 'act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity'. (WordWeb)
The key word here is 'voluntary'...
Enforced donations? There is no such thing!
"ZANU PF youth popularly known as Chipangano are visiting vendors in Mbare demanding President Mugabe's birthday donations and voter registration receipts for the forthcoming referendum to choose a new constitution for Zimbabwe.
Radio VOP on Thursday witnessed the rowdy ZANU PF Mbare youths visiting each vendor at Mbare vegetable market demanding U$1 donations for Mugabe's 87th birthday celebrations known as the 21st February Movement."
Forcing 'donations' is, by any other definition, theft... Failure by the vendors to 'contribute' will end up with a beating and the vendors' goods being stolen and/or destroyed.
"What we were told is to produce $1 plus the voter registration receipt. They are saying that the $1 is for the 21st February movement celebrations due on 26 this month here in Harare," vendor told Radio VOP.
ZANU PF has in the past threatened vendors at both Mupedzanhamo market and Mbare vegetable market with eviction if they fail to support the party and Mugabe."
The threat of losing their constitutional right to vote is not only a human rights abuse, but is an illegal attempt by Mugabe's people to influence the vote, removing the right of the people to choose their own leader.
For the informed, this right is called 'democracy', a word evidently not fully understood or grasped by ZANU PF.
"Meanwhile a Mbare Magistrate Rebecca Kaviya on Thursday freed on bail Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Mbare Ward 3 councillor Paul Gorekore and six other supporters, who were arrested on Monday for allegedly assaulting some ZANU PF supporters.
The seven, who will return to court on February 17, were accused of throwing stones at ZANU PF supporters who were passing outside the MDC offices in Mbare. The supporters, who are Mbare residents, were allegedly clearing some debris from their party’s shattered offices, which were demolished by some ZANU PF youths last week.
The incident has since sparked political violence in one of the oldest townships of Harare which has seen most people injured and hospitalised in the past few weeks. Magistrate Kaviya granted free bail to the seven Mbare residents after the residents’ lawyers Tawanda Zhuwarara and Jeremiah Bamu of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) applied for their release on bail.
The State had opposed bail and had led evidence from the investigating officer, Detective Assistant Inspector Lazarus Jonasi Majonga."
Why is it that the majority of cases relating to political violence that do make it to court are invariably against MDC members and supporters? Is this Mugabe's way of attempting to prove to the world that the violence in Zimbabwe is all the MDC?
What of the thefts, beatings, abductions and murders carried out by ZANU PF?
Robb WJ Ellis
The Bearded Man
