THE TRIUMPH OF DIPLOMACY ZIMBABWE PETITION

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THE TRIUMPH OF DIPLOMACY ZIMBABWE PETITION

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE

1) To seek and encourage active diplomatic engagement:
We the Zimbabwean people, at large, yearn and cry for the triumph of diplomacy
to resolve our economic and political crisis. This is a humanitarian issue and should be treated as such. Lives are being lost innocent children, adults, a whole cross section of vulnerable groups are suffering while political egos are on display. We can all see an avoidable tragedy being induced for political dispensation. A whole generation is being made bitter when simple honest and straightforward diplomacy would be all it takes to resolve the issues at stake without putting pre-conditions to dialogue where people can agree to disagree and still go out and share a drink while they contemplate how best to come to terms with each other. Collective punishment is a very inhuman, prejudiced, biased and unfair way of dealing with largely political differences. The problems of Zimbabwe are an open book, as are the players involved in this orchestra. Refusing to talk or putting obstacles to direct diplomatic engagement is the ultimate human failure by those with the power to engage in such dialogue. A whole people are suffering because they have been relegated to the dustbin while politicians from both divides are grandstanding instead of averting human suffering.

To involve all stake holders without un-diplomatic preconditions, including sanctions, whatever their name is!:
We urge direct engagement without pre-conditions to all diplomatic efforts to ensure the desired results of averting human suffering, promoting harmony, re-establishing reconciliation and tolerance are expeditiously pursued.

To promote the collective response to national challenges by all, through tolerance, respect and national patriotism: Let all those who are interested or have influence in the process be involved as stake holders. This means all political parties without exception, student bodies who are direct victims of this impasse, humanitarian entities including religious representatives, farmers, captains of industry, trade unions and regional leaders.

TARGET DIPLOMATS & VESTED INTERESTS

2) Western powers led by Britain for obvious bilateral reasons that are historical:
SADC leaders as neighbours whose economies, cultural ties and collective regional power are linked to Zimbabwe:
African Union, as the parent organisation responsible for African diplomacy.
Commercial farmers as beneficiaries of compensation as agreed at Lancaster House and the Zimbabwe land conference of 1998, and also the people purportedly being protected by western powers as descendents thereof.

PARTICIPANTS

3) The Zimbabwe public at large, Zimbabwe scholars, politicians, students, trade unions, captains of industry, trade unions, humanitarian entities, international community, EU, UN, NAM, AU, SADC, Britain and any other vested interests from the economic front.

EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL DIALOGUE

4) Direct engagement with all international players, from the Bretton Woods institutions, to US and British governments as leaders of the west on Zimbabwe specific issues. The EU, SADC, UN, etc. on the one hand and all political entities and religious groups in Zimbabwe including trade unions, captains of industry and farmers:

TARGETED SANCTIONS

5) These to be waived to allow for travel and direct diplomatic engagement, or modified to allow the triumph of diplomacy with a view to completely remove them as they are a barrier to diplomatic engagement.

LAND AND COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY

6) To promote dialogue on any due compensation as guided by previous commitments and the aims and objectives of the Harare Land Conference of 1998 and Lancaster House understandings before it: Land is both contentious and a source of racial division because of its imposed racial ownership during British rule. All those that lost land should then directly benefit from any funds raised per foregoing undertaking at the land conference and other bilateral agreements between Zimbabwe and Britain. Those white Zimbabweans who still wish to pursue agriculture in Zimbabwe, but had relocated be welcomed back and allowed to apply for the A2 schemes like everybody else and be given leases after normal processes. This will promote racial, harmony, peace and be a yardstick for many countries in a similar disproportionate land ownerships like Kenya, South Africa, Namibia etc. The amicable resolution of the Zimbabwean issue will have far reaching repercussions in many countries and may even help avert similar crisis in the near future.

FUTURE ELECTIONS

7) To diplomatically promote a mutually agreed election framework that will set the standard for future elections: Our election frame work has many positives and also negatives, most of these are not with the statutory instruments, but the culture of violence, lack of tolerance, lack of respect, undignified posturing by leaders, external interference, divide and rule by vested interests, also biased bureucracy etc. Zimbabweans should be allowed to follow the laws of the country and regional protocols on the conduct of elections without any neo-colonial interference by world powers. Zimbabwean leaders must be held to account to the people not external influences, who have their own economic and political agendas. The SADC protocols should be the yardstick which should be vigorously pursued and adhered to. The political influence and any perceived bias should be reduced to a bare minimum in all national institution such as the police, military, intelligence services, judiciary, prison services etc.

CONSTITUTION

8) To diplomatically agree on the framework of roadmap to a future home grown constitution that safeguards national interests and strengthens the rule of law. The Constitutional Commission Draft Constitution and the NCA crafted one can be revisited and an honest transparent revision of our constitution undertaken.

68 Signatures

  • TICHATONGA MWANAWEVHU
    • Comments
    • Zimbabweans are a highly literate people!, lets show this through direct participation in our national crisis by signing and partaking in this honorable endeavour.
  • TEMBA MOYO
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    • This is a great idea. Coming from the people is the obvious cry for a solution, and dialogue is the platform where results are guaranteed. By engaging in dialogue we will have embarked on a journey to beginning to solve realisticaly our national problems. I just wish all Zimbabweans will tune in to this in a way that allows the country to move forward. Politicians come and go, but the country will always be there and the future of our children is and should be the concern of all. Indeed the humanitarian aspect is of paramount importance.
  • Steven Changara
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    • This is our time to participate and hopefully the international community can listen directly to what we the people are crying for. We have suffered enough, please lets all talk and be human, surely the suffering of blacks is as painfull as any other race!!!, collective punishment of a country and its people for political expediency is shameful, cowardly, and a denigration or world responsibility on human rights!
  • Tich Junior
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    • The children are suffering!!, does it take for people to be in tents and wearing rags for the world to react, surely the world does not have to wait for morbid extreme stimulus to react. Indeed its time to talk!, inducing people to indulge in anarchy is rather primitive, crude and inhumane way to deal with political differences.
  • Cindrella Nyenyedzi
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    • This would be a God send if properly handled and responded to, the British government particularly recent statements by their prime minster that an African life should be viewed with the same global humanitarian dignity is an opportune statement. Its time the British led from the front in solving this issue, just as they were in front in colonisation, usurpation and subsequent diplomatic impasse that has directly led to this sad chapter. Yes its time for diplomatic triumph!!
  • mupfudzapake
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    • I support the petition, and hope the diplomats are listening and will actively remedy their failure thus far.
  • Sean Mcgregor
    • Comments
    • I support this effort and beg the international community to please genuinely engage on this requested dialogue.
  • Gilbert Mutyambizi
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    • Everybody is crying for dialogue and nobody is listening, please listen to our cry for peace and economic stability. This a truely humanitarian issue and surely can only be resolved through active dialogue.
  • Gushungo
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    • the westmust remove the sanctions, land is ours
  • BEN DANDAJENA
  • Brilliant Pongo
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    • Zimbabwe needs action we stand up for Diplomacy and fairness
  • Gumbo Rendongwe
  • tazviona matenga
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  • Washington
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    • Zimbabwe i love you
  • portia
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    • i love the music
  • Furatirai Sithole
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    • I support the move if it can make people in the diaspora to vote as well during all elections of Zimbabwe
  • Itayi Garande
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    • I support the petition one hundred per cent. It is now time to act. Silence is a lie. Silence is a crime. We have the right to determine our own destiny. Editor - www.talkzimbabwe.com
  • Phiwokuhle
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    • I am a South African national however i had an oppotunity to work in Zimbabwe for about two years 98-2000 and i must say i think this is a great idea Zimbabweans need and must put as many signatures on this document Great Idea its time for Action
  • Changamire
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    • Zimbabwe inyika yevanhu kwete ye Zanu kanakuti MDC saka we the people of ZImbabwe should be heard it is time to say enough of this political grandstanding enough of the stalemates we need to find a way forward or we suffer at the hands of those who choose not to honour diplomacy we can triump and triumph we will i sign up to this patition and give it all my support Viva Zimbabwe viva nyika ye vanhu it is indeed the peoples Republic of Zimbabwe
  • Tapiwa
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    • a fair start, now lets make it real by keeping it real, God bless us all
  • shingi
    • Comments
    • i think we might have to do more than just petioning!
  • Zvakawoma
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    • TARGETED SANCTIONS ARE GOOD AND JUSTIFIED. HOW ABOUT BRINGING TO BOOK FIRST THOSE IN THE POLICE, ARMY AND ZANU PF WHO COMITT HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES.
  • tichakunda vachikara
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    • economic war i am in,zimbabwe should be free indeed
  • Paul Manyika
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    • Where there is a will there is always a way
  • Condyrice
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    • I love the motherland. We are a resilent people.Let the fight go on we shall overcome
  • Tapiwanashe
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    • Zimbabwe is a great country.
  • Tapilicious
    • Comments
    • God Bless Zimbabwe!
  • James M. Pongo
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    • "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." i love Zimbabwe and i am a true patriot and i sign this petition because of my love for the country don't get me wrong patriot does not equal zanu pf or mdc i am for and am Zimbabwean
  • Amdhara
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    • zimbabwe must talk to each other
  • rihanna
    • Comments
    • hey
  • b. dandajena
  • Tichaitora Bedzi Chirandu
    • Comments
    • pamberi nekubudirira
  • Chenai Goredema
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    • Mwari ngakomborere titaurirane zvipere, vanhu tatambura veduwe.
  • will ngwazi
  • Marirangwe
    • Comments
    • Chimurenga chetatu!! Mutsai tinotsigira!! There will be a struggle, just a question of what type and when. This one is an evil one, he responds to protests with live bullets, then publishes the photos for your viewing pleasure. No we are not weak, but we want to live to enjoy the victory, for it shal surely come!!
  • Peter Sidler
  • Francis Svunurai Mushayavanhu
    • Comments
    • Lets build bridges and build our country together. No more inhuman sanctions in the name of democracy! Too many have already died.
  • Annette Strachan
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    • I do not support Mugabe or his party,I would like to see Zimbabwe back though as a rich fetile country where all can live and work in peace,I hate to see the people in rags and starving and dieing of starvation,if the Aids hasnt got them ,poor poor people they dont deserve this ,its Genocide
  • Brother Derrick
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    • Africa for the Africans
  • mirror
    • Comments
    • I pray this is not another lost bottle. Let our voices be heard. Let the suffering stop.
  • spoiler Tamuka
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    • MUGABE AND ZANUPF HAVE DESTROYED ZIMBABWE AND ARE THE REAL ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE.THEY WILL PAY
  • Rev Mufaro Stig Hove
    • Comments
    • Pamberi ne dialogue! Please let all websites have this information!
  • Misty-Fifty...
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    • God Bless Zimbabwe and the povo
  • Joy
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    • The only place I can strut like a King regardless ...
  • Tapuwa
    • Comments
    • New blood will do better than the rot that's ruling our country.
  • Thomas
    • Comments
    • Outragous,This Thug Magabe Was Allowed By Stupid Lord Carrington
  • Glynis Nay
    • Comments
    • I wish I could do something
  • Sally GraŠ·a
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    • Its about time that us Africans held our politicains accountable for their actions.They aren't ''God's'' just ordinary human beings like all of us.STOP THE CORRUPTION.STOP THE VIOLENCE.STOP THE ABUSE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.STOP KILLING OUR MEN WITH WARS.
  • shyleen dube
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    • help zimbabwe
  • Kevin Roberts