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ZINASU joins the campaign against violence targeting women
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
December 04, 2010

The Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) has joined hands with the people of Zimbabwe and the world at large in condemning violence against women. Speaking at the launch of the TOGETHER AGAINST POLITICAL VIOLENCE, a campaign that seeks among other things to knock into the regional histories in tackling the plague of political violence was the ZINASU Gender and Advocacy secretary Tendai Katai, together with the NCA Chairperson Lovemore Madhuku, ZCTU President Lovemore Matombo.

The campaign launched just before Zimbabwe for yet another election seek to achieve its goals through raising awareness, building support structures, rehabilitate both the victims as well as the perpetrators as well as capacitating women and communities at large to deal with the scourge at two levels: prevention and support for victims.

The campaign is a brainchild of the Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) report depicting the several of human rights violations perpetrated against the female membership of the NCA between the years 2000 to 2008. According to the report 75% women reported that they had been active political activists. 41 % of these reported being arrested, with 29% having been arrested twice. 35% of those arrested were intimidated during arrest, whilst 46% reported that the worst treatment came from police officers. 9% reported having their young children being detained with them.

Speaking at the launch of the campaign the ZINASU Gender secretary defined the respect for human life and human liberty as key factors shaping the art of good governance and the protection of common good from directionless zeal of fanatics as fundamental to human development. Cde Tendai reminded the world of the violence against the student of Zimbabwe epitomized by the brutality death of Batanai Hadzizi and emphasized that in most cases of such violations security agents played a part directly or did not act to put a halt to such atrocities.

ZINASU believes that there can never be a breakdown of law and order that can surpus the connivance of governing personalities who encourage fanaticism. The use of such fanatics whose open contempt for order and human life is beyond question and have left the struggle for a democratic Zimbabwe marred and mirrored by skeletons and scars.Cde Katai said ZINASU hoped that as we trudge towards another election Zimbabweans must not be nerved by such elements whose impulses for cruelty and barbarism motivates them into maiming raping beating or killing for no substantial motive except to quench empty personal grudges or simply to satisfy a taste of sadism as well as to gratify misguided political leader. These are murderers who have been brain washed into thinking that change of government is criminal hence they defame their victims as illegal agents of regime change but one day justice will catch up with them.

Katai also reinforced and reiterated ZINASU's commitment to the TAKE CHARGE campaign saying no matter the vilification, brutalities and pain the students of Zimbabwe shall never accept the products of a flawed process called COPAC. ZINASU shall forever march untainted and unmoved until the right to education objective has been attained drawing inspiration and satisfaction from the justice of our cause as well as waiting for history to prove its validity.

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