Passive Resistance

Passive resistance or defiance is a way of protesting against a government or law by using peaceful methods such as refusing to obey laws or refusing to leave a place or building. This type of action highlights the desires of an individual or group that feels that something needs to change to improve the current condition of the resisting person or group. Nonviolent resistance is largely but wrongly taken as synonymous with civil disobedience. Each of these terms—nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience—has different connotations and commitments. the two categories of action cannot be identified with one another.  Civil disobedience is a form of political action which necessarily aims at reform, rather than revolution. Its efforts are typically directed at the disputing of particular laws or group of laws while conceding the authority of the government responsible for them. However, passive resistance may fall within the banner of civil disobedience if it act meets the...

Desperate times call for desperate measures! This sums up the Zimbabwean story nowadays. It goes without saying that Zimbabweans have fought a losing battle against the establishment that has deployed its repressive state apparatus to good effect at the slightest sight of trouble. The story of police brutality against unarmed civilians raising their displeasure at elements of bad governance that have crippled the economy has been well documented. Since the Mugabe led administration, Zimbabweans who dared raise their ire against corrupt and inept or incompetent government officials through demonstrations have invited a beating with many ending in hospital, police cells, in prison or at worst in the mortuary, Such has been the brutal nature of the Mugabe's government. The new administration, commonly known as the New Dispensation led by HE Emmerson Mnangagwa has not covered itself in glory either. Despite the early promise to observe several human liberties that had been crim...