President Robert Mugabe’s administration has been warned of impending civil unrest if he does not urgently address the current instability in the country.
In a scathing joint statement yesterday, several church organisations — the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, Catholic Bishops Conference, Habakkuk Trust and Christian Alliance — lashed out at Mugabe’s brutal reaction to the #ThisFlag campaign led by cleric Evan Mawarire.
“These grievances must be viewed as the early warning signs, which indicate underlying and simmering tensions that will soon explode into civil unrest if not addressed. We call upon the government to immediately investigate and prosecute law enforcement agents that are alleged to have brutalised people. The government should also urgently act and address these genuine concerns of the citizens to avoid total collapse of the State,” the church groups said.
They further said Zimbabweans had lost confidence in Mugabe’s rule. “Given all this, citizens have lost confidence and trust in our government. Therefore, there is urgent need for national dialogue between the government and different national stakeholders, towards finding a lasting solution than to ignore, politicise people’s genuine grievances and label them as opposition or demonise and harass the church and her leaders,” the statement said.
“We raise concern on growing harassment and arrests of religious leaders, such as the recent arrest of Pastor Evan Mawarire, and also the intimidation of other pastors speaking on behalf of powerless people.”
Mugabe seemed to stoke anti-Mawarire sentiments while addressing mourners at the burial of national hero, Charles Utete on Tuesday and accused the #ThisFlag founder of being foreign-funded.-Newsday
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I guess you have had a meeting with Jesus ?? As you seem to know his Colour mmmm i thought it was part off the clergy work to inform the people and your corrupt horrible government . Yes I am white but I also don’t see colour I see human beings not colour , when people like yourself start to understand that concept may be you will have a better Zimbabwe . Shame that what’s stops people like yourself moving forward in this world . Probably paid by the corrupt government . And may be Jesus is black it wouldn’t matter to me , I really see stupid comments , I guess it’s a lack of eduction . Can’t describe it any other way .
One ancient writer said this, “Ignorance is the case of God: knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven”, also there is a Mark Twain quote that sums uninformed comments.
Churches should stop issuing populist threats, warnings and rhetoric. This is the time for the cleric to carry out research on this so called Christianity which is in reality the white man’s Christianity. The real Jesus was not white, and you say colour does not matter so why did God make people to be of different colours. And who is the mother and father of all these people? The black African person is the mother and father of the human race. You worship a white Jesus and a white god contrary to what the Bible says, and you dare warn Mugabe of civil unrest. Why don’t you tell us who is behind this global economic recession? You cannot see who is behind it because the white man is your god.