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Title: President Robert Mugabe Author: Workers’ Solidarity Federation Date: 29 August 1998 Language: en Topics: Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, oppression Source: Retrieved on 29th October 2021 from http://struggle.ws/africa/wsfother/mugabe_july98.html Notes: Below is a leaflet we did in Durban at the Non-Aligned Movement Summit. It was issued at a gay rights protest against Zimbabwe’s strong man, Mugabe, who is not only anti-worker in general, but an oppressor of gay rights as well.
Zimbabwean head of state Robert Mugabe has established himself over the
past few years as a strident, near-hysterical voice of bigotry and
irrationality in his campaign against the human dignity of his gay,
lesbian and bisexual compatriots. First his government’s goons clamped
down on intellectual and cultural freedom by ordering Gays And Lesbians
of Zimbabwe (GALZ) kicked out of the 1995 Zimbabwe International Book
Fair. Then he further sullied his image by calling homosexuals
“sodomists and sexual perverts” who had no human rights at all.
Well, GALZ won the right to be reinstated at the book fair, but Mugabe’s
stream of foul-mouthed abuse continued and incited fellow politician
Michael Mawema to call for a public crusade to castrate or to lynch
people convicted of “sexual crimes”, in other words, healthy, consensual
adult love and affection.
GALZ activist Keith Goddard is currently being maliciously prosecuted by
the Zimbabwean government for exercising exactly this right. Gay and
lesbian rights are not special rights. They are an inextricable part of
normal human rights. An injury to any homosexual person is an injury to
every person. Southern Africans of all sexual persuasions have stood
together in class solidarity against Mugabe’s outrageous police state
tactics. Workers’ Solidarity Federation, a majority black directly
democratic, radical, working class organisation, fully supports the
global condemnation of Mugabe’s gay-bashing.
WE DEMAND: an end to vicious hate talk from Mugabe and his cronies!
WE DEMAND: an end to the unethical court case against Keith Goddard and
the persecution of his comrades.
WE DEMAND: that South Africa and the other nations of the Non-Aligned
Movement publicly condemn the Zimbabwean government’s fascist attitude.
WE DEMAND: a boycott of Zimbabwean produce and that the NAM nations
apply economic sanctions against Zimbabwe until it is brought in line
with the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights.