Essential Reading: 10 Truths

Of all the websites I’ve uncovered while trying to keep up with events in Zim over the past week or so, none has impressed me quite as much as Sokwanele - their archive of the results by constituency is the only place with anything even close to the level of detail you get from UK elections, while their blog, This Is Zimbabwe, has been home to some truly great pieces showing how people are feeling ‘on the ground’.

So I make no apologies for linking to them again, this time to their Message to the Zimbabwean People posted earlier today.  10 simple facts about events of the past week, and two requests for how Zimbabweans of all backgrounds should behave until the results are finally announced:

1. Begin to break down the barriers between us
Mugabe has done his best to divide our nation, to turn us against each other and build suspicion and hatred. Now is the time to challenge those lies and begin to heal and build unity. Smile at those who you previously feared: the police and security forces. Show them in your behaviour and attitude that the future is positive and that we all stand to benefit.

2. Keep all of our spirits up
Do your best to remind those around you that just because Zanu PF and Robert Mugabe are thrashing about like a fish on a hook, it doesn’t mean that we have lost. Support each other when we begin to let go of hope.

Never forget: we have won.

Essential reading for any Zimbabwean.



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