SW Radio Africa news - The Independent Voice of Zimbabwe
South Africa’s ‘Mother City’ will be host to a demonstration against the regional endorsement of Zimbabwe’s elections, with scores of people planning to march through the streets in protest. Zimbabweans in South Africa have organised the Cape Town protest, which will get underway on Wednesday afternoon. That protest will see a petition being handed to the South Africa speaker of Parliament, Max Sisulu, calling on the government not to accept the flawed election process. The petition can be signed online: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Democracy_in_Zimbabwe/ So far, almost 300 people have said they will be part of the protest which has been coordinated through the Facebook social networking website. The protesters will be walking from various points in the city, before converging outside Parliament. The details of the event can be read here: https://www.facebook.com/events/204810623015970/ One of the organisers, Joe Eppel, told SW Radio Africa last week that he hopes this protest will encourage others to organise similar events, because of the serious threat the endorsement of the election poses to democracy in the region. “Both the protest and the petition started when we (the organisers) got together and decided that as Zimbabweans abroad, we should take some kind of stand against SADC’s endorsement of the election, which is so clearly flawed. We decided that we should try have some kind of protest to place pressure on Jacob Zuma and SADC not to endorse these elections,” Eppel said.