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"As everyone is aware, the past stay-aways have been characterised by random destruction of property and threats to life," said police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena.
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He said from next week, a series of marches, demonstrations and stay-aways would begin.
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Zimbabweans, who have suffered in silence for nearly a decade after being beaten into compliance following the 1997-98 stay-aways organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) just before the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in 1999, are now prepared to rise again as politics of the stomach takes over.
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Though the rural vote gave Mugabe a two-thirds majority in Parliament in 2005, it is the urban people that have the potential to paralyse the country if they go on a rampage as they did during the stay-aways of the 1990s.
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They organized several successful stay-aways and strikes, which built bridges between the generations and the classes and brought about the collapse of the Urban Bantu Councils and several school boards.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Previous attempts to lead marches and stay-aways by the Morgan
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Mutambara told supporters if the opposition party failed to remove Zanu-PF from power through democratic means, it would resort to demonstrations and mass stay-aways.
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Kinshasa residents on Monday ignored tracts from the UPDS calling for strikes and stay-aways as part of a two-day "dead city" scheme to up the pressure further.
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Monday is a public holiday in Zimbabwe and there have been reports there could be more protest stay-aways soon, although the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has set no definite date.
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He said the MDC would continue to call for stay-aways as a way of keeping up pressure against the 79-year old Mugabe and his government.
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