We have already posted about Kubatana, an online community of Zimbabwean activists and aims to improve the accessibility of human rights and civic information in Zimbabwe. This recent post by Bev Clark is worth linking to: I know I found it extremely inspiring. Excerpt:
It’s raining heavily in Harare right now but just a short while ago the skies were clear for the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) Valentine’s Day March. They brought it forward a day so that the police wouldn’t completely squash it.
So there I was sitting in my car on Kwame Nkrumah Avenue and suddenly the loudest, most joyous and defiant singing filled the air and round the corner came hundreds of WOZA women carrying roses, leaflets and copies of the People’s Charter.
And I felt, in that moment, that anything is possible and most especially, that with women as brave as this, we have hope.
Traffic stopped. Pedestrians stopped and smiled and cheered. People whistled and clapped.
Read the entire blog post here.
