Spies in the Diaspora
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One of our members today [9th November 2025] reported that after she appeared on a Live Chat on Facebook with Shepheard Yuda discussing the arrest in SA of Job Sikhala) that she recieved threats from Zanu PF Official and subsequently other unwarranted threats [see her post link here https://x.com/chiombach1343/ ]
Since we have written about Zanu PF UK & Europe before, {see article from August 2024 HERE} we decided to ask AI in the guise of Twitter/X's GROK facility the following question:
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""The Zimbabwe diaspora in the United Kingdom are having a difficult time proving the crimes of the Zanu PF in Zimbabwe AND the activities of the regimes members in the UK and Europe. Last year we created an article about the activities in the UK of these "Spies" What additional evidence are you able to find on X and elsewhere to further establish this tactic by the regime to intimidate, or even assault those who have fled the regime in the past? [SEE our article https://take2zimbabwe.org/diaspora/zanu-pf-spies-in-uk ] "" |
GROK replied thus [https://x.com/i/grok/share/ ] and in full below
Additional Evidence of Zanu PF and CIO Intimidation Tactics Against Zimbabwean Diaspora in the UK and EuropeBuilding on the concerns raised in your 2024 article about Zanu PF's infiltration efforts in the UK—such as their March 2024 meeting focused on "partnerships" with diaspora organizations, unity behind Mnangagwa, and potential CIO involvement—recent searches on X (formerly Twitter) and the web reveal further instances of surveillance, threats, and operational presence by regime-linked actors. These build a pattern of transnational repression, where Zanu PF and its Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) extend intimidation beyond Zimbabwe's borders to silence critics, track activists, and discourage remittances or activism from exiles.Evidence from 2024–2025 primarily involves:
- Direct surveillance by CIO agents in the UK: Confirmed operatives tracking dissidents.
- Targeted inquiries and implied threats: Calls from regime proxies probing locations of high-profile exiles.
- Propaganda and verbal intimidation via UK-based Zanu PF figures: Public threats against diaspora critics.
- Broader warnings from human rights groups: Reports of intensified scrutiny and "strong-arming" of diaspora communities.
Stop These Deportations
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The United Kingdom’s cruel and hostile asylum environment has given rise to yet another Home Office plan to deport people to Zimbabwe on a flight chartered on 2nd March 2022.
StatusNow4All[1] These Walls Must Fall [https://detention.org.uk]., MyRight2Vote, BARAC UK, RAPAR, CCC, Zapu, ROHR and ZHRO[2] and other organisations abhors this decision, made in the name of the Home Secretary, Priti Patel. DOWNLOAD the PDF of this Petition NOW
It is immoral:
These are just some of the factors of note in relation to those who are being rounded up for deportation right now:
- Some have been here a long time, as many as twenty years;
- Some will have had Refugee Leave, such was the compelling case they presented on arrival in UK, but the law, now, allow the Home Office to strip them of this, due to a conviction for particular offending behaviours [para 339 Immigration Rules].
- Deportation Orders are automatically made against people without British or Irish citizenship who have been given a prison sentence of more than a year
- Some of these people will have served their time in prison and on license like any other person with a conviction and have subsequently lived in the community for many years without re-offending – the bulk of these ‘crimes’ are old.
- They have been suffering the psychological damage and indignities of being on indefinite Immigration Bail with ankle tags, curfews, not allowed to work or study, and the ever-present threat of removal.
- Suicide amongst those in this situation is NOT uncommon.
Petition and Plea to Raise Funds for Legal Action
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- Written by: Zimbabwe Community United
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Link to Zimbabwe Community Appeal Online Petition
Legal Challenge to Stop Mass Deportations by the Home Office
The general publicImmigration support networksHuman Rights DefendersBlack Lives MatterZimbabwean Lives MatterJamician Lives MatterUK Home OfficeZimbabwe High CommissionJamician High CommissionDuncan LewisZimbabwean LawyersBail for Immigration DetaineesRestoration of Human Rights ZimbabweZimbabwe Human Rights OrganisationDiane AbbottZarah SultanaGlobal African CongressStatus NowSOAS Detainee SupportLord Peter HainBaroness Kate HoeyTendai BitiRight To RemainFreeMovement.OrgJoint Council for the Welfare of ImmigrantsActors For Human RightsRAPAR
Home Office Policy Change is Apparent
It has come to our attention that since the week commencing 5th July 2021, the UK Home Office "Enforcement Unit" has been detaining large numbers of Zimbabweans for the purpose of deporting [for those with a criminal conviction] or forcibly removing [those within the asylum system] on [expensive] chartered flights the first of which departed on Wednesday 21st July 2021. Those being "targeted" are mainly those without leave to remain and / or have no 'live' leave-to-remain applications filed with the Home Office. The Home Office are claiming that most are "hardened criminals" - but this is a gross distortion of the facts - simply pandering to bigotry.
It is our considered view that many of the deportees face imminent danger if they are forcibly returned to Zimbabwe.
The first flight left Stansted Airport at 11:30 pm on Wednesday the 21st July 2021 with merely 14 deportees on-board an Airbus A380. Many potential forced-removals being removed from the flight due to Legal interventions appertaining to individual cases. Those that did go, were not "activists"
The problem we have with the Home Office is that this "TARGET DRIVEN" policy is indiscriminate and fails to offer any real protection for those who have fled Zimbabwe due to persecution from the ruling Zanu PF Party.
Read more: Petition and Plea to Raise Funds for Legal Action
Zimbabwe Community Appeal [ZCA] Group position
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Statement: Zimbabwe Community Appeal
Zimbabwe Community Appeal [ZCA] Group position on the current immigration situation of Zimbabweans in the UK.
For many Zimbabweans this is the current situation that Zimbabweans in the UK find themselves in once more at the hands of the Zanu PF propaganda machine. Zimbabweans in the UK, have concerns for the many pending removals which are scheduled as identified in the leaked communique between the British Embassy in Harare and the Zanu PF Government. This identifies a target of 100 removals a month.
How will these be identified and where will they come from?
ZCA members, MDCA, ZHRO, ROHR and ZAPU are not inclined to support any murderers, rapists, and other ‘criminals’, rather they worked together to avail the needed support for those that were detained without notice, so that each one of them gets due process before any permanent outcome is decided.
We understand Ms Priti Patel’s assertion that criminals should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. But the current deportees have already served their sentences or are within their sentence in respect of the very few Zimbabwean murderers affected by this Home Office Policy change.
Whilst not condoning murderers, rapists, and Child molesters, many covered by the "criminal" blanket description have committed minor crimes, and many committed some kind of fraud to be able to work in the UK. The UK Asylum system is deliberately complex, convoluted, and expensive to navigate. Many of these so-called criminals have fallen foul of the discrimination in the UK's HO.
In addition, let us not forget how dangerous Zimbabwe is for those deemed as "against Zanu PF.”Or unable [by CIO evidence] to be able to swear allegiance to Zanu PF
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