MDC demo flops in SA
Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2002Herald
A DEMONSTRATION planned by the MDC to continue its vilification of Zimbabwe at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa flopped yesterday.
According to delegates attending the summit which began yesterday, the MDC demonstration failed to materialise after only a handful of people turned up for the protest in Johannesburg.
The flop was mainly attributed to a warning given by the South African government that it would deal with those bent on disrupting the Earth Summit. Denials by South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique indicating that they were not part of the United States plot to oust President Mugabe and the Government had also dampened the spirits of MDC supporters in South Africa, the delegates said.
"It is also a fact that a big number of Zimbabwe-ans working here are illegal immigrants and they would not dare risk to be arrested in demonstrations and face deportation," the delegates said.
The MDC has been on a campaign to demonise the Government at major summits calling for the imposition of sanctions against the country. MOREPrinter friendly version
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