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Demonstration Against Auxillia
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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
Lydia’s Defiant Stand
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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.”
Where was Auxilla
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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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#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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