{"id":2087,"date":"2018-04-03T07:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wozazim.org\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2018-04-03T07:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:40:54","slug":"100-woza-members-arrested-for-demanding-power-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"100 WOZA members arrested for demanding power for the people"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eight protests took place at Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) offices across Bulawayo this morning, demanding \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpower to the people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Approximately 100 WOZA members have been arrested so far. <\/p>\n

At 8 am this morning, WOZA members assembled at eight different ZESA offices \u2013 Pumula, Mpopoma, Entumbane, Tshabalala, Magwegwe, Nkulumane, Nketa 6 and Luveve \u00e2\u20ac\u201c holding simultaneous \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctough love\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 protests. Over 500 members from 16 different areas of Bulawayo took part in the community-level protests. <\/p>\n

The protests at Magwegwe, Entumbane, Nketa 6 and Mpopoma took place without incident and the participants were able to disperse before police arrived. At Pumula, approximately 70 members as they were dispersing (the police station is next door to the ZESA office.) They were taken to Pumula Police Station before being transferred to Bulawayo Central Station.<\/p>\n

At Luveve, members had protested and were beginning to disperse when police arrested people some distance away from the ZESA office, as they were catching transport back to their homes. Approximately 20 people are being held at Luveve Police Station.<\/p>\n

At Nkulumane, nine people were arrested at the ZESA offices and are being held at Tshabalala Police station. Lawyers have been called and are trying to get access to those arrested.<\/p>\n

The protests signify the launch of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpower to the people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by March 2008 campaign. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s protests began with members queuing up as the offices made to open. They then marched in and handed over protest notes and either sat or stood inside and outside the offices until addressed. <\/p>\n

In Luveve and Entumbane, officials attempted to divert the protesters by saying someone was coming to address them whilst making hasty calls to the police station. In Nkulumane, nine members were loaded into a cream Nissan pick-up, registration 846-101 Z by plain-clothed officers.<\/p>\n

In all the areas the protest notes and placards were delivered to the local ZESA offices but officials told the peaceful protesters to go and protest at the town office, as there were no officials with authority to address them present. As members dispersed security guards were seen collecting up the protest notes and placards. <\/p>\n

The contact numbers for the police stations are below. Please call and ask why innocent men and women are being arrested for addressing legitimate consumer complaints to their service provider, ZESA.<\/b><\/p>\n

Bulawayo Central on +263 9 72515
\nLuveve +263 9 520801\/2\/3
\nTshabalala +263 9 496755<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Eight protests took place at Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) offices across Bulawayo this morning, demanding \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpower to the people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Approximately 100 WOZA members have been arrested so far. At 8 am this morning, WOZA members assembled at eight different ZESA offices \u2013 Pumula, Mpopoma, Entumbane, Tshabalala, Magwegwe, Nkulumane, Nketa 6 and Luveve \u00e2\u20ac\u201c … Continue reading 100 WOZA members arrested for demanding power for the people<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}