Staff Reporter
As opposition parties pile pressure against the governance of the country by President Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF, the Dumiso Dabengwa led ZAPU has also joined in the massive public demonstrations to send a message of displeasure on the state of the nation.
ZAPU Belfast branch in the United Kingdom will be commemorating the country’s 36th independence by holding a march against the ZANU PF government in the small town, on Independence Day.
According to Sipho Sibanda, a spokesperson for the organisers, the party members will be demonstrating against the ZANU PF government under the theme “Celebration of Zimbabwean National Independence Day – and a call for change.”
Sibanda said that a list of issues against Mugabe’s government will be tabled at the demonstration.
“Zimbabwe, under the rule of ZANU-PF, is a state which is marred by wide scale of human rights abuses, disregard of constitution by the ruling ZANU PF and  the state, in terms of the following,
√Laws of association
√The right to demonstrate
√Freedom of association
√Detentions without trial.
√Demolitions of homes
√Farm invasions.
√High levels of corruption in the government.” said Sibanda in a statement issued to media today.
“Many of the asylum seekers from Zimbabwe in Belfast today have come here fleeing persecution under the Mugabe’s regime.
We are therefore protesting to support democratic voices in Zimbabwe who want change, freedom and all our constitutional Rights,” reads the statement.
Other opposition parties are holding similar demonstrations on several issues against Mugabe’s government.
Morgan Tsvangirai will tomorrow be leading his party in a demonstration in Harare against the failed economy by Mugabe’s government while Joice Mujuru’s Zimbabwe People First South African Province will be marching to the Zimbabwean embassy in Pretoria to demand that Zimbabweans living outside the country be allowed to vote in the next elections.