A Zimbabwean living in California, Violet Mariyacha, says she will be
contesting the 2018 presidential election, which will feature several
candidates including 93 year-old President Robert Mugabe and Movement
for Democratic Change founding president Morgan Tsvangirai.
In a statement, Mariyacha said she would improve the standard of
living for Zimbabweans and become their voice if elected president in
the crucial poll.
She is expected to contest the election under her party – the United
Movements and Unions Party, which was formed sometime this year.
Mariyacha, who is engaged in humanitarian work, has urged the United
Nations to intervene in Zimbabwe, saying there are serious cases of
human rights abuses.
The statement read in part, "Mariyacha has recently launched a grass
roots campaign to put pressure on the United Nations and the world to
intervene in the country’s upcoming 2018 elections, vowing to prevent
the human rights violations, arbitrary arrests and abductions, beatings,
torture, and killings of members and supporters of the opposition
parties during the 2008 election."
Mariyacha claims that she has been in politics since the 1990s. voa
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