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Another protest is happening in Harare right now!
We give you live updates of today’s protest where hundreds are marching in Harare CBD over two issues:
Zanu PF government’s failure to provide the 2,2 million jobs it promised in its 2013 election campaign and, Government’s intention to introduce bond notes.
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13:00
There are reports that riot police have started chasing #NoToBondNotes demonstrators in the capital. The Video below has started circulating on Social Media.
12:15
The hundreds of demonstrators have thronged the ministry of legal affairs offices to submit a petition against bond notes. Next, they move to parliament building to submit a petition on unemployment.
11:30
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Today’s protests come at a time when civil frustration is rising over government’s mismanagement of the economy, corruption, among many other failures of the Zanu PF admnistration.
10:30 Carrying the Zimbabwe Flag, which has become a symbol of peaceful civic action, the majority of the demonstrators are singing Ishe Komborera Africa, a song that is associated with revolution and emancipation from oppression.
Meanwhile, anti-riot police officers have been deployed at various corners of the city centre ostensibly to intimidate the protesters and crush the civic action after President Robert Mugabe’s recent public pronouncements that police were supposed to descend on any protesters.
But in a feat of defiance, which has become the new form of civic action, the protesters are cheerfully singing as they gather around.
Source-Newsday
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