Foster Dongozi, the actual secretary general of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists is in UK for an informative meeting about the situation back home and the realities facing journalists and human rights activists and trade unionists.
In his mission, he is with Jennifer Dube, a colleague journalist from The Standard, a weekly newspaper published in Harare. It was a great pleasure to meet face to face with those two colleagues journalists from Zimbabwe. Right Foster is now a trade unionist and comrade and Jennifer is a female journalist working in a macho environment in Harare.
In Zimbabwe, female journalist are not yet recognised by the work that they are doing and are still in low paid compare to their male colleagues. They are still treated as second class worker and Dube is trying to proof that they are wrong and that they should change their view and mind.
In Zimbabwe, female journalist are not yet recognised by the work that they are doing and are still in low paid compare to their male colleagues. They are still treated as second class worker and Dube is trying to proof that they are wrong and that they should change their view and mind.
They brought here the true story of the situation in Zimbabwe as it happening today and what possibly could happened tomorrow as the coalition government is not doing so well and journalists also are being targeting by those in power. Jennifer Dube at the end of her visit at the Nuj HQ
Foster will have the opportunity now to act as an ambassador for a free and independent Zimbabwe from torture, intimidation, arbitrary arrest of journalist and human rights activists and political killing of opponents when he will meet with the Commonwealth parliamentary group and others government department in relation with Zimbabwe.
This visit arrived at the moment the coalition government has decided to renew with his policy of deportation and removal of failed asylum seekers from Zimbabwe back home. The Homer Office said that, Zimbabwe is now a safe country to send his own people back. But Dube had another idea about what the Home Office missed totally in their assessment of a safe country.
This visit arrived at the moment the coalition government has decided to renew with his policy of deportation and removal of failed asylum seekers from Zimbabwe back home. The Homer Office said that, Zimbabwe is now a safe country to send his own people back. But Dube had another idea about what the Home Office missed totally in their assessment of a safe country.
They met with Zimbabwe diaspora in Glasgow last Monday, November 22 where they had opportunity to explain to them the reality and the true story back home. Those who attend the meeting organised by the Nuj Glasgow Branch have been informed and received evidence of what it is really happening back home there. After that they went to Dublin...
In a day of high political drama on the domestic political and economic front Minister of State for Development Aid, Mr Peter Power, met ZUJ General Secretary Foster Dongozi and ZUJ Jennifer Dube in Dublin along with Irish Secretary Séamus Dooley. Mr Power offered to seek support at EU level for the promotion of human rights in Zimbabwe and stressed the importance of an independent media in the country. He expressed his shock at the treatment of journalists in Zimbabwe and asked that the NUJ would brief the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs on developments.
Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ Deputy General Secretary, travelled with the delegation from London to Glasgow and then to Dublin.
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