By Derick Tsimba

The US Embassy intends to train Frontline Defenders to sustain demonstrations against government The Harare Post can report.

US Embassy in Harare is going to host a training workshop for Frontline Defenders which will among others focus on ways of sustaining demonstrations, effective ways of calling for reforms and good governance.

The training shall be conducted in a workshop to be held at US Chancery from 2 to 10 December 2019.

Frontline Defender is an organisation funded by British, Canadian and the US Embassy in Harare.

The workshop will take onboard youth participants from each of the following organizations; Citizen Manifesto, Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), National Youth Organization (NAYO), Zimbabwe Nurse Association (ZINA), Zimbabwe Hospitals and Doctors Association (ZHDA), Zimbabwe Youth Alliance (ZYA), Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET), Tajamuka and Zimbabwe National Association for Students Union (ZINASU).

The western forces are taking a gear up on their regime change agenda by training youths to support their cause. In 2008 human rights activist Jestina Mukoko and nine other MDC-T activists were arrested for recruiting people to undergo training in Botswana to overthrow government. In November 2018, the Commission of Inquiry into the violence that rocked Harare on, 01 August 2017, revealed that MDC Alliance youths were trained in Zambia and South Africa to rise against Government in the event that their party lost the, 30 July 2017, harmonised elections.