BY REMOVING SANCTIONS ON ZIMBABWE, WE AVERTED A VENEZUELA-STYLE REGIME CHANGE.

How Zimbabwe averted a Venezuela style regime change invasion by fighting against US sanctions and causing them to be removed before they caused enough suffering of civilians to turned into civil unrest or disputed elections that would have caused an invasion.

Rutendo Matinyarare and Nosipo Bekani at ZUAUWS/ZASM SADC anti-sanctions march at EU embassy in September 2019.

๐— ๐—”๐—ฆ๐—ฆ ๐— ๐—”๐—ฅ๐—–๐—›๐—˜๐—ฆ ๐—ช๐—ข๐—กโ€™๐—ง ๐—ช๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—ž ๐—ง๐—ข ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐— ๐—ข๐—ฉ๐—˜ ๐—œ๐—ก๐——๐—œ๐—ฉ๐—œ๐——๐—จ๐—”๐—Ÿ ๐—ฆ๐—”๐—ก๐—–๐—ง๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก๐—ฆ.

Mass marches won’t lift individual sanctions in Zimbabwe. This post explores the flawed strategy by ZANU PF to use mass mobilization for removing individual sanctions imposed by the US. Unlike collective sanctions, which impacted civilians, individual sanctions target specific officials. The post also highlights how successful previous campaigns worked in South Africa and why those accused of human rights violations should focus on legal avenues to clear their names instead of mass protests

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