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Massive blow for Mnangagwa

In Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, Gweru and Masvingo – the major cities – many stayed away from the demonstrations, saying they were a distraction from the president’s mishandling of the economy, which is plagued by 18-hour daily power cuts and shortages of foreign exchange, fuel and medicines.

Mnangagwa has so far failed to unify the country since taking over from the late Robert Mugabe, who was ousted in a coup in 2017.  Hopes of a swift recovery have faded as the economy struggles to exit its deepest crisis in a decade.Mnangagwa, like Mugabe, blames the sanctions imposed by the United States and European Union since 2001 for the economic ills and says they are intended to remove his party from power.

“Every part and sector of our economy has been affected by these sanctions like a cancer,” Mnangagwa told a sparse crowd in Harare’s 60,000-seater national stadium.“Enough is enough, remove them. Remove these sanctions now!”.The poor attendance showed the difficulties that Mnangagwa faces in mobilising party members still divided between Mugabe’s supporters and those who ousted him.

The rift was exposed by a bruising dispute over the former leader’s funeral.Earlier, government supporters led by Mnangagwa’s wife Auxillia and bussed from across Zimbabwe marched for 5km to the stadium.Singing and dancing, they waved placards inscribed “No sanctions, no discrimination, sanctions new version of slavery,” and “Enough is enough, remove sanctions now.“We have no jobs because of the sanctions. America wants to remove Zanu PF from power through sanctions but we will defend the party and our president,” said 32-year-old Martin Mafusire.

Similar marches were held throughout Zimbabwe after Mnangagwa declared Friday a public holiday.But in downtown Harare, many people went about their daily business selling everything from fruit to mobile phones.The government had offered free chicken and chips meals, free transport, tollgate waivers, and directives targeted at schools and universities in a desperate push to boost the numbers.The country’s two biggest football clubs, Highlanders and Dynamos, were roped in as well along with popular musicians – but.“


It is Mnangagwa who has to go because he has failed. I can’t leave my station to go on a useless march,” said mother-of-three Catherine Chihota, selling fruit at a street corner.The EU and United States imposed financial and travel bans on Zanu PF and top military figures for alleged human rights abuses and electoral fraud.The government says the measures are punishment for its seizures of white-owned farms.Zanu PF supporters condemn the sanctions while the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change says they are not the cause of the country’s economic crisis.


The regional Southern African Development Community has rallied behind Zimbabwe’s call for an end to sanctions.While the government ran documentaries and articles in the official press criticising sanctions, the U.S. and EU embassies took to social media to rebut the official narrative.U.S. Ambassador Brian Nichols wrote an article in a private newspaper on Thursday saying “the greatest sanctions on Zimbabwe are the limitations that the country places on itself”.He said the United States remained the biggest donor to Zimbabwe but corruption and lack of reform had dragged down the economy

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