Zimbabwe Vigil Diary 16th August 2025

📅 Published: August 21, 2025

📰 Source: zimbabwesituation

Curated by AllZimNews.com

In a video, Mr Mnangagwa is heard calling to other liberation movements: ‘we must not allow ourselves to lose power’.

This statement said it all to vigil activists.

It meant that ZANU PF would continue to cling to power, even against the people’s will.

It meant that to oppose ZANU PF would be akin to looking for trouble, including death.

It meant that ruling liberation movements, many of which constitute SADC, would not be helpful to Zimbabwe, particularly when elections were clearly stolen and the electorate subdued through violence and intimidation.

Mnangagwa’s statement served to encourage ruling liberation movements within SADC to continue to retain power by hook or by crook, even if it meant eliminating perceived opponents.

Such statements were so backward that they could only drag the region, and with it Africa, to the dark ages.

Activists felt vindicated and emboldened: vowing to continue with the fight for democracy and human rights regardless.

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Events and Notices: Next Vigil meeting outside the Zimbabwe Embassy.

Saturday 6th September from 2 – 5 pm.