Statement by senator David Coltart
Bulawayo
17th January 2019
My internet provider sent me the following message this morning:
“Dear valued customer , Please be advised that the internet is back online under a directive that Facebook ,YouTube , Whats App ,Twitter will remain closed until further notice. Any inconvenience is sincerely regretted Econet”
If you are reading this in a free country where an authoritarian regime has not shut down social media please protest to your Government. The person who the Constitutional Court proclaimed is President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is attending Davos this weekend. Please ask your leader to take him to task not just for the shutting down of the internet but also for the excessive use of force which has resulted in numerous people being shot in Zimbabwe and hundreds illegally detained.