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Zimbabwe Students Need our Solidarity NOW!!!!
Over the past month, students at the University of Zimbabwe, in Harare, have been charged an extra $ ZW 1 000 000 tuition fees, have ALL been evicted from their halls of residence, and many have been arrested, beaten and expelled from University whilst peacefully demonstrating and holding a meeting.
The Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) need your solidarity and support. Their ongoing struggle is almost incomprehensible, with student leaders now fearful for their lives.
What can you do?
Follow this link to take a 5 minute solidarity e-action: www.officeronline.co.uk/society
And
Join us at a solidarity demonstration outside the Zimbabwe Embassy to let the Zimbabwe Officials know that we won’t stand for oppression of, violence against, or intimidation of students and student leaders.
Friday 10 August
1-3pm
Zimbabwe Embassy (map: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&um=1&q=zimbabwe+embassy&near=London&fb=1&cid=0,0,17346225439376947708&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=image)
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Most recent message from ZINASU (Zimbabwe National Students Union):
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) wishes to unequivocally condemn the extra-judiciary decision by Levy Nyagura [Vice Chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe] to defy a court order issued by the High Court on 13 July 2007 by Honorable Justice Ben Hlatswayo. The court order instructed the University to open specific Halls of Residence and re-accommodate evicted students. What is particularly disquieting is the apparent acquiescence of the executive which seems to confirm that Nyagura`s decision is supported by the ILLEGAL, ILLEGITIMATE and CRIMINAL ZANU PF Regime.
Levy Nyagura, an unashamed appointee of this vampire regime has been at the helm of the University for the past four years. He will go down the annals of history as the most pig headed Vice Chancellor of all time who will leave deep scars and bleeding hearts in the students and the stuff of the University of Zimbabwe. It is unfortunate that Nyagura has now become a self proclaimed semi demi-god and luciferically inspired appointee who believes in no one other than himself and his Master.
It is now proven that the blood thirst and power drunk Nyagura will suspend and expel at the slightest provocation. He is now enmeshed in a hopelessly futile attempt to destroy the tradition of a democratic institution, impose anarchy, perpetuate barrack gangsterism and cause untold chaos at the once prestigious University. The expulsion of ALL students from the university Halls of Residents, the suspension, expulsion and harassment of student leaders and Activists and the subsequent defiance of the court order spells doom and disaster to an institution of higher learning already reeling from wanton destruction, gross mismanagement, brutality, chaos, carnage and unmitigated corruption in broad spectrum.
Nyagura is a classical example of a cacophonous assortment of a quack revolutionary, vampire elite, and an intellectual hyena whose Gestapo approach to university business has become a disgrace to the people of Zimbabwe. There is no doubt that Nyagura is currently the leading candidate for personal sanctions. He has done everything that all those under targeted sanctions have done, if not worse.
He is a shameless culprit of the rule of law, a habitual criminal who has defied court orders a countless times. He has been instrumental in assisting the illicit ZANU PF regime as it perpetuates the continued suffering of the people of Zimbabwe, students included. He is a known, unapologetic beneficiary of ill-gotten wealth, kickbacks and cuts which are paid in return for loyal service to the ailing Regime.
We demand an immediate and unconditional reinstatement of students in accordance with the High Court order, failure of which we will ask the court to order the arrest of Nyagura for contempt of court and crimes against humanity.
Defending Academic Freedoms in Zimbabwe (DAFiZ),
I remain,
Promise Mkwananzi,
ZINASU President 2007
18 July 2007
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More information:
http://www.zinasu.org/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6287478.stm
Join the facebook group ‘Solidarity with Zimbabwe Students’
Follow the progress of the EDM at:
http://edmi.parliament.uk/edmi/edmdetails.aspx?edmid=33828&session=885
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