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Auxilla Outrage

Details: Written by: Mellisa Mbavarira; Category: No to Auxilla Visit; Published: 03 June 2025; Hits: 728

Auxilia I speak today not out of convenience, but out of outrage.

Empowerment or Endorsement? Hosting Auxillia Mnangagwa at the FLAIR Summit Sends the Wrong Message to the people she’s representing. While Zimbabwean women suffer under her husband’s oppressive regime, honouring her isn’t empowerment — it’s complicity in our pain

Zimbabwe’s healthcare system is in a state of collapse.
Around 2,500 women die in childbirth every year due to a lack of basic medical resources. In January alone, nearly 300 newborns tragically died.
The Sally Mugabe Hospital, still relies on a single maternity theatre built in 1977, during Ian Smith’s regime.
Today, women are forced to give birth on filthy hospital floors, without proper care or equipment, while critical life-saving tools lie broken or completely absent.

An Insult To Zimbabwean Women

Details: Written by: Nobukhosi Dube; Category: No to Auxilla Visit; Published: 03 June 2025; Hits: 524

Auxilla ED Auxillia Mnangagwa's Visit To The UK Is An Insult To The Zimbabwean Women And A Mockery To The Human Rights.

The planned visit of the 1st Lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa, to the UK, for the FLAIR Summit in London on the (17th-18th June), has triggered anger and deep concern among Zimbabweans in diaspora and back home. We are demanding that the UK government should refuse her entry. Whilst she parades around with the banner of women's empowerment. (DOES SHE EVEN KNOW THE MEANING OF IT?)

Women in Zimbabwe are suffering and so are the young girls. The country's health system has crumbled to nothing. Hospitals and clinics have no electricity, no medication and no staff. This has become a national norm.

Across the country girls as young as 10 years old are being raped, abused and forced into early motherhood. In many cases perpetrators walk free due to the broken justice system. The government turns a blind eye. Auxillia as a woman and a mother has failed to protect all the vulnerable children in our country, instead they allow the culture of silence.

As a result, primary school dropout rates have gone high, especially among girls. Many are forced out of education due to pregnancy, poverty or early marriages. These girls lose their future while those in power continue to enrich themselves and travel abroad for luxury.

WOZ say No to Auxilla

Details: Written by: Women of Zimbabwe; Category: No to Auxilla Visit; Published: 03 June 2025; Hits: 446

Mnangagwa Wife Women of Zimbabwe (WoZ) expresses strong objection to Mrs Auxilia Mnangagwa’s participation at the FLAIR Summit being held in London from 17-18 June 2025. WoZ’s concern stems from Mrs Mnangagwa’s apparent indifference to the suffering of women in Zimbabwe, particularly in cases of women with different political views.

Mrs Mnangagwa has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of support for women’s rights and has failed to condemn or address the atrocities committed against women who are not aligned to the ruling party, Zanu PF or women who are human rights defenders and those who belong to different political opposition movements. This is not only a violation of basic human rights but also sends a dangerous message that such actions are acceptable. It is crucial that our community and events uphold and promote values that respect and protect all individuals, especially those who are vulnerable.

Since 2017, when her husband, ED Mnangagwa assumed the Presidency through a coup, many people including women were persecuted with some losing their lives. Mrs Mnangagwa’s Angel of Hope Foundation cites its ‘mission is to support the most vulnerable in society through providing access to healthcare, social services, education and economic empowerment initiatives with emphasis on women, youth and children’.

The foundation places emphasis on supporting women but it is surprising that women have been persecuted. Mrs Mnangagwa has never spoken out against the atrocities, visited the women and girls nor has she ever demanded answers in the case of MoreBlessing Ali who was abducted and murdered by known Zanu PF leaders in Nyatsime in May 2022. In August, 2018, six innocent Zimbabweans were killed by the Zimbabwe National Army following delays in announcing presidential results, she remained silent. In Jan 2019, following fuel riots, over fifty women came forward alleging sexual assaults and rape by the Army, she did not speak out. In August 2023, women from opposition political movement (CCC), reported being sexually assaulted and raped by the Zimbabwe Army and members of Zanu PF, but she did not question or seek to find the truth.

WOZ Mrs Mnangagwa’s participation at this summit sends a message that we are willing to overlook these serious issues for the sake of other considerations. This is not only morally wrong but also undermines the integrity of this event and the values it purports to represent. It is imperative that as Women of Zimbabwe we stand firm in our commitment to supporting and advocating for women’s rights and safety. Mrs Mnangagwa is a danger to women and to those she says she supports through her Angel of Hope Foundation.

The organisers of this event ought to reconsider their invitation to Mrs Mnangagwa. We urge Dr. Yvonne Thompson CBE DL, co-founder of FLAIR to think about the consequences of associating with wives of known dictators who disrespect human life and commit atrocities against their own citizens.

I believe that this will not only strengthen their event but also send a clear message that they stand against any form of injustice and support the rights and safety of all individuals.

Protest to Auxilla's Invitation

Details: Written by: Petty Ziramba; Category: No to Auxilla Visit; Published: 02 June 2025; Hits: 605

Statement of Protest Against the Invitation of Auxillia Mnangagwa to the FLAIR Meeting in London

17th and 18th June 2025 Leonardo Royal Hotel, 45 Prescot Street, London, E1 8GP

As concerned Zimbabwean women in the diaspora, we strongly condemn the invitation of Auxillia Mnangagwa to the FLAIR Meeting in London. Her presence at an event meant to empower and uplift women is a direct insult to the suffering of countless women in Zimbabwe – suffering that she has consistently ignored, enabled, or turned a blind eye to.

Auxillia Mnangagwa, as the self-proclaimed "mother of the nation", has failed in her moral and civic duty to stand with women.

One glaring example is the inhumane treatment of Mary Chiwenga (Mubaiwa), the estranged wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. Mary was denied access to medical treatment abroad after her passport was confiscated by the state. Auxillia remained silent during Mary’s ordeal – an ordeal that ended in her losing a limb and being separated from her biological children.

How can someone who dines and smiles with Chiwenga, while ignoring the plight of the mother of his children, be held up as a beacon of women’s empowerment? Her silence was complicity. Her indifference was violence.

As Petty Ziramba, a Zimbabwean woman living in the UK, I am disgusted.

I feel betrayed that a platform that should amplify authentic female voices has instead chosen to celebrate someone who has failed the very women she claims to represent.

FLAIR stands for First Ladies of Africa Impact & Resilience – qualities that Auxillia Mnangagwa has clearly not embodied in her public conduct. We call on the organisers of the FLAIR Meeting to reconsider this invitation. Zimbabwean women deserve true representation – not photo opportunities or performative leadership.

Zanu PF Intimidation UK

Details: Written by: John Burke; Category: 45 Years; Published: 30 May 2025; Hits: 1173

We asked GROK3:

“An article today by Masimba Mavaza at this link {https://zimbanews.co.zw/home-office-to-step-up-deportations-of-zimbabweans/} is designed to both intimidate Zimbabweans in the diaspora {who have fled the regime due to violence and intimidation} and to prevent our lawful protest at the arrival of Auxilla Mnangagwa at the FLAIR SUMMIT - on the face of it to lecture us all about "Women's Empowerment" - which is ostensibly non-existent in Zimbabwe itself.

This author also tried the same approach when we protested ED Mnangagwa's appearance at COP26 in November 2021.

What challenges can we make to this man and the status of Zanu PF UK & Europe and their role in the Untied Kingdom - could this be classified as a terrorist organisation?

Your query raises serious concerns about the actions and influence of Masimba Mavaza, the ZANU-PF UK & Europe branch, and their potential implications in the United Kingdom, particularly in relation to the article you referenced and the broader context of Zimbabwean diaspora activism. Below, I address your concerns systematically, focusing on the challenges you can make to Masimba Mavaza and ZANU-PF UK & Europe, as well as the feasibility of classifying ZANU-PF UK & Europe as a terrorist organization under UK law. I’ll also contextualize the issue with available information, including the article from Zimbanews.co.zw and related sources, while critically examining the claims and providing actionable steps.