WHEN HELPING OTHERS BECOMES A CRIME IN ZIMBABWE
In Zimbabwe today, helping people is becoming a crime. The government is now using the law to stop people who are doing good work. One of these laws is called the Private Voluntary Organisations Act, or PVO Act. It was made to control how non-government organisations (NGOs) and charities work. But now, it is being used to attack them. The law is being used to stop people from giving food, education, and health care to those in need.
The government says the law is needed to stop terrorism and bad groups. But that is not true. This law is not about safety. It is about power. It is about control. It is about fear. The PVO Act is now a weapon to silence voices of care and hope.
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights went to court to fight this law. They took the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare and the Attorney-General to court. They said the law goes against the Constitution. They said it takes away freedom and rights from the people. They are asking the High Court to cancel some parts of the law.
This law makes it very hard for NGOs to work. It makes registration hard. It stops them from receiving money from donors. It allows the government to treat them like criminals. And worst of all, it allows a minister to remove leaders of NGOs and put his own people. This is not democracy. This is dictatorship.
In Zimbabwe, many people get help from NGOs. They bring food, school supplies, medicines, and clean water. They help orphans, widows, people living with HIV, and those affected by disasters. But now, the government wants to destroy all this help.
The PVO law also takes away freedom of speech, freedom of gathering, and freedom of helping others. It gives too much power to the minister and the Registrar. They can shut down any organisation just because they don’t like it. They don’t need a good reason. That is very dangerous.
The lawyers want sections 4, 5, 6, 9, 13A, 14, and 21 of the law to be removed. These are the parts that give too much power to the government. These parts kill the work of NGOs. They punish those who are trying to help.
As a political activist, I speak for the voiceless. I fight for the people who are being punished for caring. My activism is not about politics only. It is about love. It is about justice. It is about defending what is right. When the government tries to control charity, it means the system is broken. It means they are afraid of good people.
I use my voice to tell the truth. I use my platform to fight back. I believe that Zimbabwe can be better. But not when laws are used to scare and silence people. Not when leaders are more worried about power than people. Not when helping others is seen as a crime.
This is why I say we must resist this law. It is not just bad. It is evil. It is against what Zimbabwe stands for. The struggle for freedom is not over. The fight for justice continues. We must speak louder, march harder, and never give up.
If we let this law win, many people will suffer. But if we rise, if we speak, if we act, we can stop it. Let us stand together and protect the helpers. Let us protect kindness. Let us protect Zimbabwe.
It is not yet Uhuru.
These NGOs pretend to help people but are being used by the West to push regime change. The government is right to regulate them. We must protect our sovereignty at all costs.
The government is doing the right thing by tightening control. Too many NGOs are political tools. Real help doesn’t come with an agenda to destabilise the nation.
This article is just propaganda meant to make the government look bad. Why should foreign-funded groups operate without checks? Every country regulates NGOs — why not Zimbabwe? So-called “activists” are just bitter losers hiding behind human rights. If these groups are clean, they have nothing to fear from the PVO Act. We won’t allow chaos disguised as charity.