21 DECEMBER 2020

MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA DISTRICT DEMANDS THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ARTUZ MASVINGO PROVINCE GENDER AND SOCIAL WELFARE SECRETARY SHEILA CHISIRIMUNHU.

Mdc Alliance Namibia district condemns the attempt by Zanupf terrorists to silence dissenting voices in the education fraternity. The conviction and sentencing of the Gender and Social Welfare Secretary from the vibrant teachers union(Artuz) led by the astute and radical leader President Obert Masaraure epitomises the serious weaponisation of the law to put opposition on mute.

Madam Sheila was convicted and sentenced to 10 months in prison which must be resisted by all right thinking teachers who comprehend the need to offer solidarity to a comrade who is being incarcerated for demanding a living wage. Teachers must continue fighting without deterrence.

Moreover, demonstrating against slave wages or unsalted peanuts in the civil service does not warrant any arrest worse imprisonment. Section 59 of the supreme law of the country provides the rights to demonstrate peacefully against gross misgovernance.

Zanupf must respect human rights and freedoms. Being incarcerated for demanding what is due is not only satanic but diabolic. Mdc Alliance Namibia district urges all genuine revolutionaries in the teaching fraternity to join hands against Zanupf authoritarianism. Sheila deserves solidarity from the rest of the civil servants who are wallowing in abject poverty.

Lets peacefully rise and constitutionally confront this unjust conviction against an innocent victim of Zanupf artificial poverty manifesting in suicidal policies in the education sector, rampant corruption and stomach politics of plunder and self-enrichment.

In a nutshell, all teachers and social democrats home and abroad must embrace dangerous freedom to win against monocracy in Zanupf goons. Zimbabweans must unite to reclaim the fruits of independence.

It is now imperative for Progressive Teachers’Union (PTUZ), ZIMTA and other Unions to drop their hypocrisy and offer solidarity to fellow comrades who appear to be confrontational for genuine transformation in the education sector.

FreeSheilaChisirimunhu

FreeJacobMafume

FreeAllanMoyo

HandsOffArtuz

IncapacitationIsReal

NoSlaveWages

HandsOurWomen

WeDemandALivingWage

Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya