Online Reporter
Nyore Madzianike
Senior Reporter
ACADEMIC and political analyst Richard Runyararo Mahomva yesterday presented his latest edited volume, “Standing Against Illegal Sanctions”, to Vice President Kembo Mohadi at his offices in Harare.
The book, a scholarly response to the continued imposition of illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe by Western powers, provides an in-depth examination of Zimbabwe’s foreign policy and its broader implications for the Global South.
As a response to the scholarly silence on the international support which Zimbabwe has earned, the publication celebrates and makes sense of the Southern African Development Community’s solidarity declaration of October 25 as the region’s Anti-Sanctions Day. The day has been set aside to express SADC’s unequivocal call for the immediate and unconditional removal of illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe by the US and the EU.
While paying homage to the SADC regional bloc for this initiative, the preamble exposes the extent to which African nations are coming together to weed out remnants of colonialism and iterations of neo-colonialism by standing together against the gross violation of international law and human rights in Zimbabwe by Western powers.
The publication is described as an affirmative response to the anti-sanctions initiatives by the ruling Zanu PF, Government institutions, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and various other socio-economic formations. The formations also continue to expose the demerits of sanctions and their denigration of Zimbabwe’s sovereign autonomy and by extension that of the entire Global South.
“Standing Against Illegal Sanctions” brings academic research to the stock-taking of such interventions while also providing policy guidance for other countries that may find themselves in Zimbabwe’s current predicament of fighting illegal sanctions.
