[Update] Zimbabweans Launch Online Petition To Block SADC, Close To 30k People Sign Within Hours

If you have been following the news in Zimbabwe you know that SADC is set to meet in Botswana to discuss the Zimbabwean situation. SADC is mediating between the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and  President Robert Mugabe. Some Zimbabweans will not have any of that and have made an online petition calling on SADC to stay away and let Zimbabweans fix their own problems.

Full text of the petition which has garnered over 10000 25000 signatures in a few hours,

Dear SADC

The Zimbabweans and International Humanitarian community asked you to help Zimbabweans in their struggle against a dictator and you said, “Zimbabwe is a sovereign state and the people of Zimbabwe must fix their own problems themselves”.

WEtherefore kindly ask you to allow the people of Zimbabwe to do just that. The Zimbabwe Defence forcesismade up of Zimbabweans and the army takeover though not ideal is indeed Zimbabweans fixing their problems themselves.WEare fully supportive of the army stepping in as they should have done many years ago.

As you gather in Botswana today, please drink your tea and biscuits and watch on your tv’s the same way you did for 37 years. There is no need at this time for you to do anything but business as usual. We speak for many people when we say we hoped and prayed for this day for long and now that it’s here, DON’T mess it up for us. If you love Mugabe so much you can have him all to yourselves, we will even throw in a 50something year oldlady as a bonus.

We hope for Zimbabweans you will consider our request. If you take any action, you will be going against the Zimbabwean army and all the Zimbabweancivilliansin and outside the country.

Yours sincerely

Zimbabweans

If you want your signature on the petition, click here