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MDC women calls for urgent release of Woza ladies
30 Sep 2011 at 04:03hrs | Views
The MDC Women's Assembly calls for the immediate release of Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) who were arrested last week over charges of "theft and kidnapping".
The two women were part of a group of women who were marching in Bulawayo on the International Day of Peace.
MDC women say the activists' crime was to remind Zimbabweans that peace was a necessary feature for development. For that, the riot police was mobilised to disperse these women in a violent and ruthless a manner.
"As the Women's Assembly we dare ask what harm can these poor women cause by marching for peace? The same women have been arrested in the past for dishing out red roses on Valentine's Day!" said the Women's Assembly.
"The ZRP would have us believe that Jenni and Magodonga pause a threat to peace and tranquillity in Zimbabwe for asking fair tariffs from ZESA than Zanu PF's Chipangano holding minibus operators to ransom and refusing the City of Harare to collect revenue for running the City," added the assembly.
The women questioned why all the Chipangano violence is perpetrated in full view of the ZRP and no-one has been charged.
The ZRP denied the MDC Youth Assembly the opportunity to stage a peace march in central Harare next month and yet happily watched rowdy Zanu PF youths demonstrate against the Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti.
The Women's Assembly stands firmly behind our sisters from Woza support their principled and peaceful methods of exposing the vicious dictatorship that the people of Zimbabwe are living under. We call for their unconditional release urgently.
The two women were part of a group of women who were marching in Bulawayo on the International Day of Peace.
MDC women say the activists' crime was to remind Zimbabweans that peace was a necessary feature for development. For that, the riot police was mobilised to disperse these women in a violent and ruthless a manner.
"As the Women's Assembly we dare ask what harm can these poor women cause by marching for peace? The same women have been arrested in the past for dishing out red roses on Valentine's Day!" said the Women's Assembly.
"The ZRP would have us believe that Jenni and Magodonga pause a threat to peace and tranquillity in Zimbabwe for asking fair tariffs from ZESA than Zanu PF's Chipangano holding minibus operators to ransom and refusing the City of Harare to collect revenue for running the City," added the assembly.
The women questioned why all the Chipangano violence is perpetrated in full view of the ZRP and no-one has been charged.
The ZRP denied the MDC Youth Assembly the opportunity to stage a peace march in central Harare next month and yet happily watched rowdy Zanu PF youths demonstrate against the Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti.
The Women's Assembly stands firmly behind our sisters from Woza support their principled and peaceful methods of exposing the vicious dictatorship that the people of Zimbabwe are living under. We call for their unconditional release urgently.
Source - Byo24News
