The Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Movement (“ZASM”), is a civil organization, established to fight against western imperialism through the advancement of African unity and development.

As a Zimbabwean organization, we realize that before we can start building an Africa we want, and African unity, we must remove the negative effects of centuries of imperialism on the continent. This means we have to fight back against economic warfare (sanctions), negative sentiment, false propaganda, ignorance, and economic sabotage, which seeks to force regime change in Zimbabwe.

ZASM was registered as a nonprofit organization in South Africa in 2021, and plans to expand throughout the continent.

The organization is an amalgamation of organizations and individuals from different anti-sanctions institutions like Coalition Against Sanctions, ZUAUWS (Zimbabweans United Against US War Sanctions), prominent lawyers, and business people who have been in the forefront of the anti-sanctions fight over the past few years.

The directors of the institution have a combined experience of over 10 years fighting sanctions, serving Zimbabwe and championing brand Zimbabwe.

The purpose of ZASM is to challenge the unlawful sanctions on Zimbabwe, and their negative effects on ordinary Zimbabweans.

Over the years, members of ZASM have spent a lot of time studying how sentiment, commerce, institutions, technology, products and legal instruments are used by western nations to manifest imperialism and neo-colonialism on the continent.

We have found that sanctions are used to coerce resource rich nations, like Zimbabwe, to give control of their democratic processes, economies, key institutions, sovereignty, and resources back to former colonial powers.

History has shown that when sanctions fail to return imperialism, the sanctions senders leverage on the economic harm caused by sanctions to instigate civil unrest, and pave way for militarily intervention in resource rich nations, as we saw in Iraq, and Libya.

In the case of Zimbabwe, we have observed how sanctions senders seek to delegitimize the Zimbabwean government; weaken the Zimbabwean army, and its ability to defend itself from any military intervention, weaken the economy to cause civil unrest, intimidate investors with targeted sanctions on major corporates, businessmen and women; and isolate Zimbabwe from international financial institutions.

ZASM was formed by a diverse group of professionals with legal, marketing, branding, social services, specifically to counter, and reverse the false negative sentiment on Zimbabwe, build legitimacy of our institutions, unite Zimbabweans, mend the rifts that could lead to foreign intervention, and lawfully challenge the crime against humanity, which is what sanctions are.