Dear Gemma

Salutation; NUS UK National President,

First and foremost, I would like to appreciate and thank NUS-UK for the unfailing support, collegiality and robustly sound comradeship which you have unwaveringly shown to Zinasu and the people of Zimbabwe over the past years. We have not walked alone in this long journey to a democratic Zimbabwe with a democratic education system.

In the light of the above, it is imperative for the NUS-UK to continue piling pressure on the Zimbabwean Government via the Zimbabwean Embassy in London. Further, we urgue NUS-UK to lobby with their strategic alliances in the European Union to do the same. The government is escalating its war against human rights defenders and democracy activists in Zimbabwe. And in a point of fact, the majority of the activists are students and the youth in general. Given that, we expect our friends to continue mobilising resources for us, whether symbolic or material. We need all your support for us to positively realise our human rights and academic freedoms as students and as citizens of our country.

I also think you will have an opportunity to meet and discuss more concrete things with our Coordinator, Washington Katema during the 15th European Students' Convention in Ljbljana between 13th and 17th March 2008.

For and on behalf of students of Zimbabwe,

I remain,

Clever Bere

ZINASU I National President