ZANU-PF United Kingdom/Europe district will hand over a petition to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, demanding an end to illegal Western sanctions on Zimbabwe.
Sadc leaders last month reserved October 25, 2019 as a day of solidarity with Zimbabwe on the issue of the sanctions.
Zanu-PF UK/Europe district secretary for administration Cde Xavier Zavare said their executive and general membership in the UK would meet on September 28 to strategise how best they could support the anti-sanctions day.
He said Zanu-PF UK/Europe district would engage Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to the UK, Colonel (Retired) Christian Katsande to plan peaceful protests at the United States Embassy in the UK, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Houses of Parliament; and deliver a petition at 10 Downing Street, home of the British Prime Minister, demanding an end to the discredited sanctions.
“An attack on one of us is indeed an attack on all of us Africans,” Cde Zavare said. “To that regard, our district executive and general membership based in the UK will be meeting on Saturday 28th of September to plan on actively participating on the Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Day, 25th of October 2019 as proclaimed by the Sadc.
“As the leadership, we will be consulting with our Zimbabwean Ambassador to the UK, proposing that as Zimbabwean citizens we hold peaceful demonstrations to the effect that these inhumane and anti-Zimbabwe progress sanctions be lifted up henceforth.
“We will be inviting our fellow from the SADC region, other African brothers and sisters as well as Zimbabwean well-wishers to come and join us on this day.”
He said they would also petition individual British MPs and make representations on the heavy economic toll of the sanctions on ordinary Zimbabweans.
