Free Republic

une 17, 2004 "If you listen carefully to the celebrating voices, those of the rich and the powerful in their corporate offices and government buildings, you can pick up a nervous undertone. If you watch the policy-makers closely, you may notice that the smiles are often thin and the hands that hold champagne glasses sometimes twitch, involuntarily. If you listen even more carefully, you can discover why. In the background you can hear another set of voices - those from below - far, far more numerous. These are voices the powerful do not want to hear, but they are having...

A clever and daring under-ground movement has sprung up in Zimbabwe that is stoking public opinion against Robert Mugabe's government. Zvakwana - which means 'enough' in the Shona language - has launched a bold campaign expressed through graffiti, emails and condoms to encourage the Zimbabwean people to rise up. The clandestine campaign is building up steam just as the progress of Zimbabwe's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, has stalled under the burden of torture of its leaders and state violence against its supporters. A black Z on a bright yellow handprint is appearing mysteriously on the walls of...