The Zimbabwean community in the UK yesterday join the country and SADC in calling for the removal of sanctions the Herald reports. The initiative which was lead by Zanu-PF UK branch delivered a petition to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office which read in part:
The economic sanctions on Zimbabwe have been in place for nearly two decades and have only achieved tragic suffering and deaths of ordinary citizens in this small Southern Africa state of about 14 million people.
Ordinary Zimbabweans, particularly children, women and the elderly are profoundly vulnerable and suffering immensely as a result of these unfair, illegal punitive economic sanctions and restrictions on key sectors such as health provision, food manufacturing, agriculture produce to name but just a few
The anti-sanctions day march back home in most cities except Marondera was snubbed by the locals for various reasons.
More: The Herald