Ravelry, a free social networking service dedicated to knitting, crocheting, and other yarn crafts, recently made a strong public stance against white supremacy in the form of a policy banning content in support of U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration.
A tribute to Zimbabwean liberation hero Dumiso Dabengwa
The late Zimbabwean liberation war hero Dumiso Dabengwa played a defining role during the final years of Zimbabwe’s war of liberation from colonial rule, as well as during the independent country’s first few years, when “the British had already made a decision with Mugabe” to carry out the Gukurahundi genocide.
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum condemns Mnangagwa government’s continuing crackdown on human rights defenders
In this press release, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum condemns the Mnangagwa government’s latest arrest of human rights defenders and criminalisation of human rights work in Zimbabwe in violation of fundamental rights and freedoms protected by the Constitution of Zimbabwe and international law.
Trump’s letter to the House and Senate on renewal of Zimbabwe sanctions
Renewing the United States’ long-standing sanctions on Zimbabwe for another year, President Donald Trump stated that “the actions and policies of certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe’s democratic processes or institutions continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States”.
Zimbabwe: three reasons why it’s all going so wrong for Mnangagwa
With President Emmerson Mnangagwa wrestling his deputy, ex-General Constantine Chiwenga, while the ZANU PF government continues to mismanage the economy, “there will be no happy ending for Zimbabwe in 2019,” argues Professor Stephen Chan of the University of London.