R2K to picket outside Zim embassy
The Right2Know Campaign is staging a picket outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in Pretoria on Friday, calling for a ceasefire in Zimbabwe.
The campaign is demanding that President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop what it calls the attacks on Zimbabwean people.
Protests erupted on Monday after Mnangagwa announced that fuel prices were being doubled in a country suffering regular shortages of fuel, food and medicine.
Mnangagwa, who succeeded ousted authoritarian president Robert Mugabe in 2017, had promised a fresh start for Zimbabwe after decades of repression and economic decline.
The campaign’s Bongani Xezwi says Mnangagwa and his government must end the repression.
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"Zimbabwean people are simply exercising their right to protest against escalating political and economic repression.”
Xezwi says are also demanding an end of the internet shutdown.
"Further, to demand that Mnangagwa and his government also immediately end the shut-down of the internet which is a blatant attempt to silence the voices of the Zimbabwean people and to deny them their right to know.”
Xwezi has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to take a stand against the violence in the country.