Cross-border traders plot Diaspora protest

THE International Cross-Border Traders’ Association (ICTA) has threatened to close all Zimbabwe’s borders on April 16 and 17 this year to press government to allow locals based in the Diaspora to be allowed to exercise their voting rights.

ICTA president Dennis Juru told Southern Eye that their planned protests were also aimed at demanding the abolishment of Statutory Instrument 64/2016 (SI 64/2016) which was introduced in 2016 to reduce imports of finished products.

“The government of Zimbabwe should allow all its citizens outside Zimbabwe to vote from the countries where they are residing as per 2013 Constitution,” he said.

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