Zimbabwe still unsafe for failed asylum seekers-Makone
13 June 2011
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York(ZimEye)Zimbabwe is still unsafe for returning asylum seekers, Home Affairs Minister, Theresa Makone says.
Speaking during her recent April visit to the United Kingdom, Theresa Makone (pictured) said the country’s security crisis was still volatile and she had already engaged the British Government’s envoy Mark Canning pleading for his country to ease its rules for Zimbabwean asylum seekers who she fears for their safety herself being a latest victim of government sponsored persecution.
“I’ve engaged privately with the ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Canning with regard to your situation. I know that a ruling has been made in the court that Zimbabweans must be removed as soon as possible…
“…I cannot go into the details of the discussion but I don’t want you to stay in fear that you might be removed possibly soon”, she said
Makone said that she had also cautioned her own daughter and sister about returning home. She said:
“Ive got a daughter; Ive got a sister. They have inquired about coming home and I have told them-Not Yet.”
“I think you all know that last week when we were supposed to have an election for the speaker, I myself was in hiding. So if I am threatened what about all of you? What chance have you got?theresa-makone
“The police report to me. I am their ultimate boss but there was every chance that I would be arrested so as to reduce the number of votes in parliament for the speaker. And you would think that they would target any other MP, but not their own minister. But now when you ask them, because they have been beaten, they will say we never intended to arrest you…”
Makone was addressing MDC supporters at Leeds.
Click below to listen to the speech:

(ZimEye, Zimbabwe)

13 Replies to “Zimbabwe still unsafe for failed asylum seekers-Makone”

  1. At times MDCTea Ministers amaze me a lot,they still behave like an opposition party yet they are part of the gvt,eg she claims that she is the latest victim of gvt sponsored persecution.The question which beggers for an answer is which gvt does she refer to when she is a co- minister of one of the powerful ministries of home affairs?

  2. Tete Vaneshanje mafarisa kuita kunge pfambi yatengerwa mubhedha munyowani. Ini ndinokuzvambaradzai nechangu cheweti kana musingandizive mushe. Ichi chimai chinonzi Theresa Makone handinyatsochipihwa ichi, chajaira kungofugurira Tsvangirai pese pese

  3. stupid tete, wanzwa!!! kana usina njere ini ndinokuputisa nechibhakera, ndaita sei iapapa. i will jump on you kana wakatumwa na tsvangison.

  4. ANONYMOUS I am on my side and the side of anyone who speaks and stands for the truth and what is right for Zimbabwe be it ZANU, ZAPU MDC even indivuduals like yourself if you say the right or wrong thing you will have my relavent comment. Ko chii chanetsa ipapa? Language yako stinks reflecting munhu asina kudzidza same fanana na BLA MIKI, XOLANI and CHOYA vanongo mhanyira kutuka instead of debating intelligently.So?

  5. TETE VANESHANJE HAVAKURI,
    WHOES SIDE ARE YOU ON YOU ARE REALLY A CONFUSED B.I.T.C.H.H.H AND MOST OF THE TIME YOU ARE OFF TOPIC COMPLETELY AND ON EVERYONE ON THE FORUM’S CASE.MARARO AKAWANDA,YOU REALLY AMUSE ME.

  6. Paulo on Mon,
    “Why would zanu kill/lnych people who are irrelevant to the political scene.Just like that gamu peice of s***”
    SO YOU DO ADMIT THAT YOU DO KILL/LNYCH PEOPLE WHO ARE RELEVENT TO THE POLITICAL SCENE LIKE MDC PEOPLE. MADHONGI ASINA BRAIN,NO SENSE OF PROGRESS MESE NANA BLA MIKI,INJA LOTUVHI.

  7. Paulo on Mon,
    “Why would zanu kill/lnych people who are irrelevant to the political scene.Just like that gamu peice of s***”
    SO YOU DO ADMIT THAT KILLS/LNYCH RELEVENT TO THE POLITICAL SCENE LIKE MDC PEOPLE. MADHONGI ASINA BRAIN,NO SENSE OF PROGRESS MESE NANA BLA MIKI,INJA LOTUVHI.

  8. XOLANI chokwadi chinorwadza. You need to deal with it, innocent diasporas my foot!! All the lies you tell about Zimbabwe just to get papers and I am not to say a thing? I don’t think so. So?

  9. Did I not say this TETE woman is an idiet? What do you gain from attacking innocent civilians in the diaspora?, xa!

  10. Hanzi ndine majerasi nevanhu vari mhiri kwemakungwa ivo vachitaura marara akadai ndinganyarara seyi? Kana asingadi kudzoka kumusha go hang and stop this rubbish about persecution if deported mhani nxa!!So?

  11. Thumps up to you Paulo and Cde Chegotsi for telling them as it is. Vana bombamupani munoitwei zvenyu imi vana zubvurandi . He-e tirikutya munotyei imi imbwa dzevanhu hapana kana anotombokuzivai kuti ndimi anaani uye kuti munoitei saka come back makanyarara muvhotere musangano wevanhu

  12. What is the fear??What POLITICAL VALUE do these asylum seekers have to ZANU-PF?imi kani,Zanu haingbata vanhu nhando.Why would zanu kill/lnych people who are irrelevant to the political scene.Just like that gamu peice of s***.Who are you guys who think they are so special they would wan to be killed by Zanu thugs?Just come back – vote for Zanu-PF and we can all live happilly together in PEACE MHANI!

  13. Poor Mai minister. The other time she got chased out of Mbare by a group of hooligans baying for her blood. And in Gokwe, neighbourhood watch committee member mounted a road block and cld not let her thru. She seems to have the worst job compared to Biti, who had the taste of an Al-qaeda type bombing last week (and cried all day long). But to tell her child not to come back home is more to do with smething else to do with the British pounds. And going into hiding at times is all but calculted at keeping her relatives in the UK. Nobody would recognise Makone’s sister boarding a bus to Mutasa rural area. But then , the british are no longer that gullible and it will be home sweet home for all those damn economic refugees. Kikiki kikikiki ,how desperate some pple can be.

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