Mbeki Petitioned In Gaborone

The demonstrators marched from White City location in Gaborone to the South African High Commission on Queen's Road to hand in a petition asking Mbeki not to continue with the planned government of national unity talks as it is not a solution to the Zimbabwe crisis.

South African deputy High Commissioner Liezel Castleman received the petition from Botswana Human Rights Group director Alice Mogwe, for the Botswana Civil Society Solidarity Coalition for Zimbabwe (BOCISCOZ). Castleman promised to send it to President Mbeki in Pretoria as soon as possible.