Mawarire Shocked By #ThisFlag Campaign
21 July 2016
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Organisers of the social movement #ThisFlag say that they are overwhelmed and surprised by the response their campaign is receiving from the public.
#ThisFlag movement is a social media campaign which is being led by a local pastor, Evan Mawarire.
The cleric is challenging government to bring to book corrupt public officials, address the ailing economy and provide jobs for the youths.
“We are actually surprised by the reaction, support and the response the campaign has received in just less than 90 days of initiating it,” #ThisFlag campaign organiser, Henry Munangatire, told a social media training workshop in Harare, this week.
“We thought we were just playing with the phones, but speaking out and communicating pertinent issues that are affecting us as Zimbabweans to the authorities,” he said.
Munangatire said using social media; they were managing to reach out to more than 1 million new followers locally every week.
“It is amazing that we have managed to reach out to more than 5 million Zimbabweans who are out of the country who are following our postings through Face book and Twitter and we are doing this without any costs incurred”.
“This would not be possible without social media that is Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter. The local and traditional media cannot reach out to such a huge number because of technical challenges our national broadcaster always has. And also you need to know a journalist for your massage to be disseminated,” he said.
Commenting on the huge crowd which thronged Harare Magistrates’ courts last week to pay solidarity to Pastor Mawarire after he was arrested for encouraging Zimbabweans to protest against government peacefully, Munangatire said they used three phones to mobilise supporters.
“We only had three cell-phones which we used to text messages, post videos on Facebook and twit and all of a sudden we had more than 5000 people thronging the court yard, it was amazing again”.

7 Replies to “Mawarire Shocked By #ThisFlag Campaign”

  1. Tsvangirai uya azo mama bhunhu rava ne boi ritsva,hehe Evan regai amboluma Mari ye bhunuwe ne ma prophet chaiwo variko Ana magaya handifunge kuti chechi yaka ichi muburitsira, ariku tsvagawo angadii

  2. Tsvangirai uya azo mama bhunhu rava ne boi ritsva,hehe Evan regai amboluma Mari ye bhunuwe ne ma prophet chaiwo variko Ana magaya handifunge kuti chechi yaka ichi muburitsira, ariku tsvagawo angadii

  3. mamillion million man march, ma zanu youth march, ma women…….U have been staging false support demoz ed infinitum. we are now used to it. your votes remain the same, if they are real anyway. hatichada hatichatya

  4. Yah if only you could have seen the people demonstrating against your puppetry yesterday , then you must be shocked for sure.

  5. Yah if only you could have seen the people demonstrating against your puppetry yesterday , then you must be shocked for sure.

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