3 continent anti-sanctions campaigner reaches Harare

Anti-Sanctions Campaign to the country.
His one-man demonstration started on Tuesday at the DWF International Airport in Dallas in the United States, moved to London in the UK and then South Africa.
Mubvundwe arrived in Harare at around 2pm and was pleasantly surprised to find a large group of youths there to welcome him.
They were singing songs denouncing the illegal sanctions and Mabvundwe joined in.
Mabvundwe said although it was a tiring journey, he felt it was important to get the anti-sanctions message across the globe.
“I spent three hours at the airport in Dallas with a few colleagues and started the long journey through the three continents.
“I spent about 10 hours at Gatwick and although the authorities kept a distance I could tell that I was being watched. I was carrying my banners throughout and I was just moving up and down with my regalia and people were taking note of my actions,” he said.
Mabvundwe’s two banners read: “Mugabe must stay, sanctions must go,” and, “Sanctions are a human tsunami.”
He was clad in a T-shirt with President Mugabe’s portrait and draped in Zimbabwe’s flag.
Mabvundwe said many people had approached him to discuss the issue of the illegal sanctions.
He said he would continue lobbying people to sign the National Anti-Sanctions Petition recently launched by President Mugabe.
“We need to tell the world that the sanctions are real and that they are hurting the ordinary villager back home and they are not targeted. I know that there are people who have not signed the petition and it is these people whom we need to mobilise against these illegal sanctions.”
Mabvundwe said he and his colleagues would demonstrate against sanctions at the United Nations Centre in America in June.
Signing of the National Anti-Sanctions Petition has gathered momentum across Zimbabwe.
Zanu-PF Matabeleland South Provincial chairperson Cde Andrew Langa said: “The programme is progressing smoothly here and we are happy with the response from the people.
“After we launched the programme in the province, we set up with centres at ward level where people are signing the forms.
“As a province we received 220 000 forms and almost half of the forms have been signed and were returned to the main command centre.”
Cde Langa said people were signing voluntarily because the illegal sanctions were affecting everyone across the political and race divide.
Cde Mike Madiro, who is the Zanu-PF Manicaland Provincial chairperson, said people were eager to sign the petition.
“We received 198 000 forms and we distributed them in various districts and we are now collecting them.
“At the moment they are at our District Co-ordinating Committee offices.
“What I can confirm is that people are really enthusiastic to sign these forms.”
Chinhoyi information officer Mr Johane Kachikuli said there was an overwhelming response in Mashonaland West.
He said the province initially got 250 000 petition forms and due to demand they had requested another 15 000 from Harare.
The National Anti-Sanctions Petition Campaign seeks to register more than two million signatures of Zimbabweans who are opposed to the widely-discredited embargo.