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Original Post Date: 2003-11-20 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 11/20/2003 6:12:19 AM
Zimbabwe Strike Flops
[Note. Mugabe is still firmly in control. Jan]
Harare – There was no sign in Harare on Thursday of any response to the national labour movement’s call for a national stayaway in protest against the arrest of the movement’s leadership and the government’s failure to deal with the country’s economic collapse, union leaders said.
“I’ve been around the city, and there’s not much response,” said Mlamleli Sibanda, spokesperson for the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. “But we are back in our offices and trying to send out messages to our members. It may pick up in the afternoon or tomorrow.”
About 400 people were arrested around the country on Tuesday when police descended with batons on thousands of union supporters as they gathered to demonstrate against soaring prices, high taxes and President Robert Mugabe’s government’s suppression of trade union rights.
On Thursday morning the federation’s president Lovemore Matombo, vice president Elisha Mlotshwa and secretary-general Wellington Chibhebhe as well as 49 others, including executives of six of the country’s main civil rights groups, were still in police cells after their arrest on Tuesday.
On Wednesday the federation’s leadership who was not arrested called for a two-day national stayaway to press demands for the union leaders’ release, but a tour of the capital’s industrial and commercial areas showed no sign of interruption of business.
“The communication calling for a stayaway came late yesterday,” said Sibanda.
Another factor, he said, was the banning in September of the Daily News, the country’s only independent daily newspaper, where news of the strike call would have been reported.
“The absence of the Daily News is one of our major problems,” Sibanda said. “We used to use them quite a lot, but now communication is very difficult.”
Tuesday’s demonstrations were timed to precede the annual budget statement by Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa due later on Thursday.
Source: NEWS24.COM
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/…br>