via Cops, anti-Bob activists clash in Hre – NewZimbabwe 28 April 2015
ARMED police and over 200 members of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) clashed in the Harare central business district on Tuesday morning, in front of the venue where a SADC summit was underway.
The MDC-T protesters were demanding SADC leaders to save Zimbabwe from President Robert Mugabe whom they said is an evil dictator who caused too much suffering of ordinary people.
The demonstration kicked off at MDC headquarters in central Harare and proceeded along Jason Moyo Avenue to the plush Meikles Hotel located at 3rd Street and Jason Moyo where the SADC summit is being held.
The protesters were waving placards inscribed with messages like ‘SADC save us from Mugabe ISIS’, ‘Zanuphobia in Zimbabwe’, “Mugabe should go now SADC’, and ‘Bob is election rigging machine”.
There were also those singing songs such as “Bob is a dog and devil” and Morgan Tsvangirai is the “legitimate leader of Zimbabwe”.
“We want to show SADC everything is not well in Zimbabwe and [that] Mugabe is a dictator who has brought too much pain to Zimbabweans,” one protester told News24.
A few minutes later armed police descended on the venue and dispersed the protesters who were still singing and dancing by beating them with batons.
Mugabe, 91, has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for the past 35 years and Zimbabwe opposition parties accuse him of rigging every election.
The four-day SADC summit kicked off in Harare at the weekend with the Council of Ministers meeting held on Monday in preparation for the heads of State Summit on Wednesday.
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The police beat innocent people again. During our struggle for independence the police beat innocent people.
Sorry, what do you mean ? That Zimbabwe is NOT independent, prosperous, democratic ?
well done to those who turned out for the demonstration. 200 becomes 2000, then 20,000 – and eventually too big for the police to beat up. Then lets see what happens.
Let’s all go to South Africa if SADC and AU cannot get their dictator friend to own up. Soon, we will create our own Zimbabwe in South Africa.
When Smith became too intransigent, John Vorster acted against him, leading to independence. Zuma and Mbeki knew what they only needed to do to force democracy in Zimbabwe. But no. They decided the gold and platinum from their mining emissaries “Metallon and Impala” was too dear to let it slip. Pay back. Zimbabweans should take over SA. These guys have made so much money in Zimbabwe at our expense. For example, do you know that SA gets our platinum in matte form for processing in SA. SA gets all the byproducts and other base metals from the matte and they themselves advise Zimbabwe what the value of the minerals they processed is worth.
These so called ZPF degrees are sh*t! That’s why even a certain witch could get a “doctorate” through a mere phone call to a local university.
At last! The sleeping giant is waking up. This is what Zimbabweans should be doing. There should be more people out there. ZIMBABWEANS, ARISE! Kick the dictator and his murderous gang out!
Dictatorship is a form of government where political authority is monopolized by a single person or political entity, and exercised through various mechanisms to ensure the entity’s power remains strong.A dictatorship is a type of authoritarianism, in which politicians regulate nearly every aspect of the public and private behavior of normal people. Dictatorships and totalitarianism generally employ political propaganda to decrease the influence of proponents of alternative governing systems, as is the nature of nationalism of any governing system.Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over the territory. The opposite of independence is a dependent territory. Independence does not necessarily mean freedom.
Whether the attainment of independence is different from revolution has long been contested, and has often been debated over the question of violence as a legitimate means to achieving sovereignty.