Comments on: Cruelty beyond the call of duty

By: …My heart’s in Accra » Ambassador Dell might not have such a hard time flying out of Harare…

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:04:09 +0000

[...] It wasn’t a good weekend to fly out of Harare. Sekai Holland and Grace Kwinjeh, two activists who’d been beaten last weekend were being medevac’d to Johannesburg for treatment of their injuries on Saturday. They were stopped on the tarmac and ordered to return to their hospital until they were officially cleared for travel by the ministry of health, a new requirement apparently created to prevent the women from leaving the country, having their injuries treated and speaking to the press in South Africa. The police have now said that all activists arrested on March 12th will need to appear in court before being allowed to leave the country – no word on whether the police and prosecutor will fail to show up in court, as they did last time the opposition figures appeared to face charges. [...]

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:11:44 +0000

Thank you for this website- we need one global voice of ACTION if we are amongst other things, going to get Zimbabwe back onto the right track, including the removal of Mugabe. Imagine- an estimated 3.5 million people have been forced to flee their beloved homeland, including myself. We all live in countries now that we dont want to be in, all we want is to return to our brothers and sisters in our beloved Zimbabwe.

PLEASE HELP US

By: Councillor Phil Bateman

Councillor Phil Bateman — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:36:28 +0000

When this vicious and evil man Mugabe is finally kicked out of Government . I do hope that we here in the West will do all we can to assist the democratic reform that will be required. I have visited Zimbabwe twice in my life. I hope that I can help in some way in the future…!

In the meantime I have the utmost respect for all those that have the courage to oppose this man and his methods of Government.

Councillor Phil Bateman
Wolverhampton City Council
UK

By: Alexander M Zoltai

Alexander M Zoltai — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:18:45 +0000

This is my first visit to your blog.
Got here via GlobalVoices.

You deserve praise for writing a post that takes information that’s causing most people to bury their heads and turning it into an intimate and powerfully wrought vignette.
So much Humanity in the way you treat the topic.
Thank you!

~ Alex

By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Zimbabwe: state cruelty

Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Zimbabwe: state cruelty — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:14:47 +0000

[...] Kubatana’s post showing cruelty by the goverment of Zimbabwe, “Spare a thought for the families of Sekai Holland and Grace Kwinjeh whose injuries were severe enough to warrant them being medivac’d to South Africa on March 17. To prepare for the evacuation they got the necessary clearance from the President’s Office, Immigration, Customs, airport security – only to be stopped on the tarmac by… a policeman with a brand new, never before heard of requirement. The officer commanding the Law and Order Section of the police had arbitrarily decided they now had to get clearance from the Ministry of Health.” Ndesanjo Macha [...]