Kuwait set free human trafficked Zimbabwean Women and punish perpetrators

Kuwait set free human trafficked Zimbabwean Women and punish perpetrators

• BY: Human Trafficking Task Force
• TARGET: Prime Minister of Kuwait Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah

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Please take action against human trafficking which is modern day slavery! This petition is about the sexual enslavement and labor exploitation of Zimbabwean women in the Gulf state of Kuwait. Kuwait embassy and immigration officials are involved in human trafficking of Zimbabwean women. More than 200 women have been sent to Kuwait under the disguise of better job opportunity. Upon arrival in Kuwait their passports and cell phones were seized and the women were used as sex slaves and for domestic servitude. TO WATCH THE VIDEO CLICK HERE   https://youtu.be/6P4JCDhUKEs

This trafficking of vulnerable women to Kuwait reminds Africans about the Arab slave trade of 19th-century which exported 28 million Africans to Muslim Middle East and 11 million to Christian western world.

Approximately 60 women have returned through the help of Zimbabwean embassy, NGOs, and individuals. More women are still gagged in Kuwait. In Zimbabwe the perpetrators including Kuwaiti embassy official have been arrested. But in Kuwait no single suspect has been arrested. Kuwait must arrest the perpetrators of this human trafficking.

One Zimbabwean woman related how she was raped and forced to sleep with 5 to 10 men a day in order to compensate the money her new boss or oppressor paid to traffickers. The story link: CLICK HERE   http://www.httf.co.za/index.php/2016/05/17/zimbabwean-woman-was-forced-to-sleep-with-10-men-a-day-in-kuwait/

Human trafficking is a serious violation of human rights and subversion of societal values. Kuwait must be held accountable before the International Court of Justice if it refuses to arrest or punish the perpetrators.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/681/476/482/kuwait-set-free-human-trafficked-zimbabwean-women-punish-perpetrators/

President Zuma wives taken care of

The wives of President Jacob Zuma are extravagantly cared for by the state. About ZAR 9 million was spent on the purchase of ten vehicles between 2013 and 2016. The Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Zakhele Mbhele asked a parliamentary question and received a written reply from the Police Minister confirming the purchase. The vehicles were purchased through the budget of the police department. In the response, the Minister said the purchase was necessary “to provide comprehensive protection of VIP spouses.”  Besides the lavish expenditure on vehicles, another ZAR125 million is held in reserve for VIP protection. 

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, appealed to cabinet ministers to buy modest vehicles as part of the general tightening up of expenditure. The Treasury is on a drive to stop unnecessary spending and reduced the budget for South Africa’s first ladies and wife of deputy president to ZAR10.2 million for the 2016-2017 year. It is a significant drop from the ZAR15.7 million spent on Zuma’s wives and deputy president’s wife during the 2015-2016 year.

The former president Thabo Mbeki’s wife received an average of ZAR7.1 million per annum during the four-year term ending 2008. Since Zuma became president, there has been a steady increase in spousal support. Other related costs are not included. The expenditure for the presidency is usually guarded. It was in 2010 during a parliamentary question session that the last information was made available.

The DA has called for a stricter regulatory framework for spousal support, and the Economic Freedom Fighters said the party would stop presidential spousal support. While South African taxpayers foot the bill, tighter control on expenditure is essential. 

The government is taking scandalous efforts to defend Zuma while the country burns. Expenditure has spiraled out of control and corruption continues to drag the country into chaos. The poor have no more to give and are now resorting to violence in an attempt to attract the government to attend to their petitions. The wives of Zuma are taken care of while millions of starving children in the townships have nothing.

Laura Oneale  - South Africa Today – South Africa News

Zuma must be laughing NPA will appeal

President Jacob Zuma must be laughing, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will seek leave to appeal to the court ruling that charges against the president be reinstated. NPA National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams said that after much consideration, he will lodge the appeal at the Supreme Court of Appeal on Monday.

April 29, 2016, the High Court in Pretoria ruled that Zuma should face the 783 charges of corruption. It has been a seven-year battle for the Democratic Alliance (DA) to get the ruling overturned.  During April 2009, the charges were withdrawn in the High Court in Durban against Zuma.

The NPA will find a technical loophole to avoid giving Zuma his day in court for now. The entire decision to appeal the High Court ruling is a political one and a waste of taxpayers’ money. Taxpayer’s money used to benefit Zuma and not the country. It is another temporary win for Zuma, and when the appeal court upholds the decision to prosecute, Abrahams will have no alternative but to proceed.  Perhaps Abrahams did not want to take the responsibility of proceeding and by lodging an appeal would let him off the hook for now. Nobody is above the law; Zuma must go to court and face the charges against him. If Zuma is innocent as he claims to be, then he will not be charged.

Abrahams as head of the NPA has failed the nation and is a dancing puppet of Zuma. Abrahams will do as he is told and drag out any decisions for as long as possible. It is the conceited style of the African National Congress (ANC) at play. Should the NPA not succeed at the appeal court, there would be a possibility that the matter is referred to the Concourt. It is a delay tactic that plays out time and again. Zuma is laughing, and the taxpayers are paying a hefty price for the folly of a president that should be impeached.

Laura Oneale - South Africa Today – South Africa News