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Sydney Kawadza<\/p>\n

2 March 2011<\/p>\n

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PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday launched the National Anti-Sanctions Petition Campaign as Zimbabwe steps up its fight against the illegal Western embargo.<\/p>\n

Britain and its allies imposed the sanctions after Government acquired land owned by a few white commercial far-mers and redistributed it to some 300 000 black families.<\/p>\n

In the National Anti-Sanctions Petition Campaign, the Go-vernment seeks more than two million signatures from Zimbabweans opposed to the sanctions.<\/p>\n

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People append their names, signatures and identification numbers to register their protest to the West and to demand an immediate end to the widely-discredited embargo.<\/p>\n

The campaign will be conducted at district and provincial level while an Internet-based offensive to incorporate Zimbabweans in the Diaspora will also be rolled out.<\/p>\n

While no date has been set for the conclusion of the campaign, the petitions will be collated and the final figure submitted to Sadc.<\/p>\n

The Government will then ask Sadc for a resolution illustrating how the generality of Zimbabweans opposes the san-ctions.<\/p>\n

Sadc, which has already condemned the embargo, will then be asked to take that resolution to the African Union, which feels the same way about the sanctions.<\/p>\n

The AU is in turn expected to then speak with one voice on the matter at the United Nations.<\/p>\n

The petitions can also be used as a legal basis for Zimbabweans to sue countries that have imposed the illegal sanctions.<\/p>\n

Such legal action can be taken up in both the US and EU.<\/p>\n

The petition is an affirmation by Zimbabweans that they are opposed to sanctions, that they are not targeted and that they are illegal.<\/p>\n

Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations voluntarily concurred in Article IV of the Global Political Agreement to fight the embargo.<\/p>\n

The parties, which form the inclusive Government, ag-reed that “all forms of measures and sanctions against Zimbabwe be lifted in order to facilitate a sustainable solution to the challenges that are currently facing Zimbabwe”.<\/p>\n

However, MDC-T leader, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai reneged on this commitment yesterday even though he was scheduled to be among the first people to sign the petition.<\/p>\n

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Instead, he chose to address the media at his Strathaven home where he dismissed the national anti-sanctions campaign as a Zanu-PF programme.<\/p>\n

The petition bears the Government of Zimbabwe coat of arms and is State-sponsored.<\/p>\n

Addressing thousands of Zimbabweans at the launch at the Harare Exhibition Park’s open car park, the President said Zimbabwe was mulling several options in its fight against the illegal sanctions.<\/p>\n

The Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces hailed the business community, farmers’ organisations, churches and tradi-tional leaders for backing the campaign.<\/p>\n

“Tinoziva kuti pfungwa dzedu ranga riri bararamhanya asi tinoda kudziumba kuti dzive pamwechete.<\/p>\n

“Tigodzisunda zvino riri bumbiro repfungwa dzevanhu varikuti masanctions hatimade, tinoaramba. Pasi nawo!”<\/p>\n

He thanked Sadc and the AU for backing Zimbabwe, but said more needed to be done to oppose the sanctions.<\/p>\n

This, President Mugabe said, included taking over the 400 British companies operating in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

“Tichiti kana vacho varikuchera vane migodhi vachingotuta mari yedu ichibuda kunze?<\/p>\n

“Kwete! Izvo ndozvandakati kwete.”<\/p>\n

President Mugabe said the time had come for Zimbabwe to take drastic measures against companies whose home governments were needlessly punishing Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

He said the indigenisation programme would target such entities.<\/p>\n

“Ndikati VaKasukuwere indigenisation and empowerment should start naivavo, makambani iwawo, we must take them over.<\/p>\n

“Hapana chatinonyara!”<\/p>\n

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The President said Zimbabwe could also stop importing from countries that had imposed sanctions.<\/p>\n

“Kana tichiziva kuti ava pane zvatanga tichitenga, zvingave zvidyiwa nezvimwe, tisati tatora tinokwanisa kutora action yekuramba, boycotting their products.”<\/p>\n

He urged British banks like Barclays and Standard Chartered to join the fight against the illegal sanctions if they were truly interested in operating in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

The British, President Mugabe said, had acknowledged that their banks here were profitable for them.<\/p>\n

“But for all that, Britain thanks us by imposing sanctions on us.”<\/p>\n

He said Britain and its allies wanted to pillage Zimbabwe’s natural resources while at the same time making ordinary people suffer – something that would no longer be tolerated.<\/p>\n

“Zvicherwa zviripasi zvikomborero. Zvimwe ndinotenda Mwari nemidzimu yedu.<\/p>\n

“Dai zvakawanikwa izvozvo nguva iyoyo, madiamond iwayo aya, oh, hondo, Chimurenga chainge chakatitorera nguva ndefu ndefu kwakauya masoja nemasoja kuno.<\/p>\n

“But Mwari akazviwanza izvozvo. Neplatinum yanga isati yawanikwa. Saka tinofanira kutenda Mwari kuti zvimwe zvakanga zvakavanzwa.”<\/p>\n

President Mugabe called for unity in the fight against the illegal sanctions.<\/p>\n

“Vasingade havade nyika yavo and munenge muchivao-nawo. Isu tiri venyika isisu. Takazvipira kufira ivhu iri.”<\/p>\n

He said many people had died, were injured or had their lives disrupted in the quest for total national liberation and these sacrifices should not be in vain.<\/p>\n

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“Tinoda vanoti tazvipira, nyika yauya zvino tiitonge. Tive vene isu, vayo.<\/p>\n

“Tibate basa aya seedu, tizvipe isu macampany.<\/p>\n

“Tipinde mumakambani vana vedu vakafunda vatitungamire. Titi ndisu vana bhasi kwete kungoramba tichiti yes sir, yes sir.<\/p>\n

“Muchingonzi mabhoyi mabhoyi. Ngatimboita kuti ivo vaiye vachisevenzera isu.<\/p>\n

“We must become masters of our destiny, which means we must be owners of our country, our resources, companies that we form and that we hope we can run. Hapana chatichatadza.”<\/p>\n

He said Zimbabwe was for all Zimbabweans, even those who did not fight the liberation struggle but castigated politicians who always rushed to the West for guidance.<\/p>\n

“Hapana anonzi haasi weZimbabwe. Kunyangwe waidududza nezuro, urigwara wakasunungurwawo. Chirega kuramba uchitya nhaiwe-we, dera. Nyika yakauya chisimbawo!<\/p>\n

“Kana ukamira shure kwevakachenjera. Kwevasingatye unongonziwo mwana weZimbabwe, wounziridzwa, hapana achanyadzurudzwa.<\/p>\n

“Asi kana uchiramba zvino uchimhanya kuvavengi, ah, tinochakabaya chikadii? Hezvoka kovarikupi vamwe vedu? Chatyiwa chii zuva ranhasi?”<\/p>\n

He made reference to revelations that MDC-T secretary-general Mr Tendai Biti had been consulted on which people the West should include in the travel ban component of their illegal sanctions.<\/p>\n

“Vainyorwa nenhengo dzeMDC zvichinzi aya mazita abve kumasanctions.<\/p>\n

“VeMDC vaitiwo ava zvavasisawirirane nehurumende tobva tazemberana navo samba reshandiswe kuti hurumende ibve tigowana mapindiro.<\/p>\n

“Ndokusaka tichiti kunevamwe vedu national consciousness yako, yedu, imi weMDC yakagozha zvakadii? Do you have it at all?<\/p>\n

“What are your basic principles, fundamental principles? What morality governs those principles? Hunhu hwenyu hunobva papi uchisvika papi?<\/p>\n

“Isu tinoti kwete vavengi vavengi ngavagare kunze kwenyika. Hatidi anopindira munyaya dzedu.”<\/p>\n

President Mugabe said every citizen had the responsibility of protect Zimbabwe’s legacy and heritage.<\/p>\n

“Kana wakazvipira isu totadza nhasi uno kuzvipira nekubatana tichichengetedza gwara rekuramba masanctions, kuramba kutongwa nemabhunhu, toramba izvozvo zvirikutaurwa kuti izvizvi zvinhu izvi zvinokanganisa hunhu hwedu hwauya neChimurenga.<\/p>\n

“Izvi zvinhu zvinopaza hunhu hwedu nekubatana kwedu. Zvinopaza samba redu. Zvinotitorera hupfumi hwedu.<\/p>\n

“Mabhunu akaramba arimuno achingo sveta isu takagarwa matumba tichivasevenzera.<\/p>\n

“Ndazvatakati pasi nhazvo! Tavakuzvitonga.”<\/p>\n

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