By Trust Matsilele
JOHANNESBURG - The militant youth grouping of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) yesterday said it would be setting up an information dissemination centre to act as a major link to the media covering Zimbabwe 2008 elections.
RYM president Simon Mudekwa, who was in South Africa recently said the information centre would deal with many issues affecting Zimbabwe at the moment. This, he said, would include talking to the international community and urging those employing Zimbabweans to relax their working conditions next year so they can go home and vote in 2008.
"Those with working permits all over the world should be given time to go and vote home and those who are refuges, asylum seekers should be given the right to vote where they are in the world, these elections are crucial for Zimbabwe and the SADC region," said Mudekwa.
"We are working tireless as we will be launching a unified force campaign programme in December at the international global conference. We all know that the participation by every Zimbabwean in this election is vital in making the Robert Mugabe regime history. They have ruled for the past three decades and the result is there for everyone to see.".
Mudekwa said his organisation will soon launch its programme of action to mobilise local Zimbabwe in time for next year's crucial election as well as targeting those working in the region and abroad.
The Zimbabwe government has repeatedly refused to allow those living in the Diaspora to vote. Most of those now living abroad are believed to be opposition supporters who either ran away from the economic crisis or persecution back home.
"As an organization we understand that if you want development and change, you have to stand up, assume a leadership role and work for that change. We are left with no time," he said.
"Networking, advocacy, lobbying and implementation is the only tool we are left with to see change."
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