A Call to Action: 45 Years of Stagnation – The “Walk to Nowhere” Campaign
On April 18, 2025, Zimbabwe will mark 45 years since its historic Independence, a hard-won victory achieved through the sacrifices of the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) and the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA). This milestone should be a time of celebration, reflection, and pride in the promise of a free and prosperous nation. Yet, for many Zimbabweans—both at home and in the diaspora—the reality of independence feels hollow.
Decades of misrule, corruption, and repression have left the country in a state of stagnation, where the dreams of 1980 have faded into a "nowhere" of unfulfilled potential.
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Speech for Demonstration Against Auxillia Mnangagwa’s Attendance at the F.L.A.I.R Summit
Date: 17th June 2025; Location: FLAIR SUMMIT @ Leonardo Royal Hotel. London Bridge
Good morning ladies and gentlemen,
Today we gather here not out of hatred or personal vendetta, but as concerned citizens, as members of the global Zimbabwean community, and above all, as defenders of justice, accountability, and human dignity. We stand here united in our collective call: Let us stop the First Lady of Zimbabwe, Auxillia Mnangagwa, from attending the F.L.A.I.R Summit.
Auxillia Mnangagwa should not be allowed to participate in a summit that claims to represent women’s leadership, innovation, and integrity, while she remains complicit—directly or indirectly—in the ongoing human rights abuses, governance failures, and systemic injustices occurring in Zimbabwe under her watch.
1. Human Rights Abuses and Democratic Decay
In recent years, Zimbabwe has seen a sharp decline in democratic principles. Political dissenters are arrested arbitrarily. Journalists are harassed. Activists are abducted in broad daylight, some tortured, others silenced. Yet, the First Lady, a powerful political actor in her own right, has remained silent—complicit in her silence.
Her participation in international forums like the F.L.A.I.R Summit is not a representation of progress; it is a mockery of the suffering endured by millions of Zimbabweans. How can she be a keynote figure at a global summit when she has turned a blind eye to the deaths of citizens in police custody, to the use of state institutions as instruments of repression, and to the erosion of civil liberties?
2. Collapse of the Health System
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I Will Not Be Silenced- Lydia’s Defiant Stand at 83
As the crowd gathers outside the Leonard Royal Hotel, banners wave, hugs abound, and from the heart of it all rises a voice — steady and soulful — singing “Ishe Komborera Africa.” The crowd surrounds her, encouraging her on. A woman wrapped in a blanket of the Zimbabwean flag lifts her fist. She is 83, and her name is Lydia.
Lydia Makombe is no ordinary protester. She is a living archive of Zimbabwe’s turbulent history — born during colonisation, a young woman when the liberation war raged, a mother during Mugabe’s rise, and now, an elder resisting the oppression that has followed decades of unfulfilled promises.
Last week, Lydia stood tall outside the Leonardo Royal Hotel in London to protest the visit of Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Auxilia Mnangagwa. Her message was clear: the voices of Zimbabwe’s oppressed will not be muted — not in Harare, and certainly not in London.
“I have seen Rhodesian bullets. I have danced in independence rallies. I have wept through Gukurahundi. And now, I see a nation strangled again by greed and fear,” Lydia told reporters, her eyes sharp with clarity. “We didn’t fight to replace one devil with another.”
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17th June 2025 — A day I had long awaited.
I sat inside the FLAIR Summit, ready to see Auxillia Mnangagwa face to face and ask her the hard questions Zimbabwean women are desperate to have answered. But that moment never came.
And perhaps that’s for the best—because what could she have possibly said to justify the shameful hypocrisy?
She flew in on a private jet, dressed in dignity she hasn’t earned, to speak about empowering women—while back home in Zimbabwe:
- Women are giving birth on cold hospital floors, with no pain relief, no doctors—sometimes no hope.
- Mothers are dying in childbirth from preventable causes.
- Girls are being married off as children, robbed of their futures.
- Others are missing school simply because they can’t afford sanitary pads.And yet she dares to speak on women’s rights?
There is no honour in showing up to international summits while your own people suffer. There is no empowerment in using public funds for luxury, while women bleed and die in silence.We demand real answers:
- How much taxpayer money funded that private jet?
- How many clinics could have been stocked with that?
- How many girls could have finished school?
- How many lives could have been saved?
- This is not leadership. This is theatrics.
We are tired of empty speeches and performative advocacy.
Zimbabwean women don’t need photo ops—they need hospitals, education, safety, dignity.
Shame on you, Auxillia.
We deserve better.
We demand better.
We are not fooled.
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#ZANUPFMustGoToSaveZimbabwe
#NoJusticeNoPeace
We did however meet some real and inspirational individuals - to help restore our faith in the 'human condition' - Abosede George-Organ Of WILAN global
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“The people of Zimbabwe deserve more than empty rhetoric and staged displays of governance. They demand a (NEW) leader who listens, not one who silences; a government that UPLIFTS, not one that plunders.”
thanks to @BhudhiGhivhi on X (Twitter).
We began by asking Claude AI to frame some questions for Auxilla Mnangagwa, at her appearance in the UK, which in itself created several contradictory issues and flew-in-the-face of the obvious events in Zimbabwe over the last 45 years or so - when her husband Emmerson D Mnangagwa was close to Mugabe up to 2017 - and now the pair of Mnangagwa's rule with iron fists inside iron gloves!
I understand you’re looking to prepare challenging questions for Auxilla Mnangagwa at the FLAIR Summit regarding the apparent contradiction between her role as “Patron Elect” speaking on women’s empowerment and the documented issues surrounding her husband’s administration.Let me search for current information about the FLAIR Summit and any recent developments regarding the Mnangagwas to help you prepare well-informed questions.
Let me search for more specific information about recent controversies and the Zimbabwe government’s record on human rights and democracy. Based on my research, I can help you prepare informed questions for Auxilla Mnangagwa at the FLAIR Summit. The situation presents a clear contradiction that activists and diaspora communities have already highlighted.
Here are some key points and potential questions:
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Backlash as Auxillia Mnangagwa named FLAIR Summit’s keynote speaker
First published in Zimbabwe on 7th June 2025 in Newsday: See Original article
The upcoming First Ladies of African Impact and Resilience (FLAIR) Summit in London was supposed to be a celebration of women’s leadership. Instead, it has become a lightning rod for controversy. The decision to invite Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa, as a key speaker is not just questionable, it’s indefensible, given how entangled she is in corruption scandals and human rights abuses back home.
For Zimbabweans worldwide, Mnangagwa’s inclusion is a bitter insult. The Mnangagwa regime, with Auxillia playing a central role, has presided over a period marked by political repression, media crackdowns, and the siphoning of state resources. Auxillia Mnangagwa was directly implicated in the explosive “Gold Mafia” documentary, which documented how Zimbabwe’s gold reserves were plundered through elaborate smuggling and laundering operations, enriching the elite while ordinary citizens suffered.
The United States Treasury has sanctioned Auxillia for facilitating her husband’s corrupt activities, yet here she is, being given a global platform to pose as a champion for women and resilience. How can the FLAIR Summit, which claims to empower African women and advance accountability, justify such a choice? The answer is as clear as it is cynical: the promise of prestige and powerful connections outweighed principle.
Adding to the summit’s credibility crisis, organisers widely advertised that Dawn Butler, a prominent UK Member of Parliament, would be speaking at the event. But after diligent investigative work by the Zim for All Foundation, it was revealed that MP Butler had never agreed to speak and refused any involvement with the summit. The same pattern unfolded with Barclays and the House of Lords. Both were listed either as partners or participants but later distanced themselves from the gathering after inquiries, exposing an attempt by organisers to inflate the event’s legitimacy.