It’s a question that all Zimbabweans should be asking themselves. In a country where 90% of the people are unemployed. In a country where the banks have run out of cash. In a country which imports 80% of its food while a quarter of the population needs food aid.

In a country which has a quarter of the population living and working in the Diaspora. Yet a million people got together and still went out in support of a leadership that has led to this state of affairs. Cathy Buckle asks why - as should every South African. – Stuart Lowman

By Cathy Buckle*



After weeks of claims, counterclaims, assertions and denials over who had called for a million man march, who was organizing it, who was supporting it, who was going to attend it and what it was actually in aid of, Africa Day’s 2016 Million Man March has come and gone in Zimbabwe.



In the week leading up to Africa Day we began hearing some of the facts and figures. The Zanu PF Youth League said they were looking for $600 000 to pay for transport, food and accommodation for the one million people expected to attend the march in Harare. Whew, that was a scary sum to do, was it really going to be possible to move, feed and house a million people for just $1.67 each?