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Student's position on the resolution of the crisis in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
June 07, 2007

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1. Introduction

The paper is a strategic response/position paper from the students of Zimbabwe under the leadership of Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) on the SADC initiative on the crisis in Zimbabwe. The document is premised on the need to find a comprehensive and sustainable alternatives to the legal, social, political and economic crisis besetting our motherland. It is our strong believe that the established order in Zimbabwe has become a nagation and abbaration to the traditional founding values and principles of all the liberation movements on the entire continent.

Mindful of the foregoing, it is equally our strong believe that South Africa has a serious and strategic role to play in the process of re-democratising the only country we have, Zimbabwe. Historically, Zimbabwe played a critical role during the aphatheid era in South Africa and the spirit of reciprocity and practical solidarity must not be put on alter for political expidiency of individuals.

To this end we respectifully concurr with Kofi Annan when he says "[Blame] [for inaction in the face of serious human rights violations] can be shared among those who value abstract notions of sovereignty more than the lives of real families; those whose reflex of solidarity puts them on the side of governments and not of peoples; and those who fear that action to stop the [violations] would jeopardize their commercial interests."

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