South Africa Movement leader Mmusi Maimane has joined growing calls in Zimbabwe for a mass stayaway on Monday, 9 May, because South Africa had 'paid a heavy price for the oppression in Zimbabwe'. | CdeLENIN
Misheck Makora
The former leader of South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance said in a tweet:"There is no room for suppression of the rights of the people, including the right to protest. There should be no obstruction of the people. There should be no arrests and intimidation of activists." "Business cannot purport to support the government by day and sabotage it by night, and thereafter play the victim," he said at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair last week.Chaos in the public transport sector has sparked the latest calls for a stayaway.
But its comeback in 2020 was linked to Kuda Tagwirei, a businessman now under United States sanctions for being an enabler of the Mnangagwa regime. But growing disgruntlement from the public has led the government to acknowledge the transport sector's failures.
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