I speak today not out of convenience, but out of outrage.
Empowerment or Endorsement? Hosting Auxillia Mnangagwa at the FLAIR Summit Sends the Wrong Message to the people she’s representing. While Zimbabwean women suffer under her husband’s oppressive regime, honouring her isn’t empowerment — it’s complicity in our pain
- Zimbabwe’s healthcare system is in a state of collapse.
- Around 2,500 women die in childbirth every year due to a lack of basic medical resources. In January alone, nearly 300 newborns tragically died.
- The Sally Mugabe Hospital, still relies on a single maternity theatre built in 1977, during Ian Smith’s regime.
- Today, women are forced to give birth on filthy hospital floors, without proper care or equipment, while critical life-saving tools lie broken or completely absent.
Today I speak for the mothers who go to bed hungry so their children can eat.
I speak for the young girls whose futures are stolen by poverty, abuse, and silence.
I speak for every woman and child in Zimbabwe who has been abandoned by those who claim to lead.
Our so-called First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa — who drapes herself in gold and titles — has FAILED.
Failed to lead. Failed to serve. Failed to care.
She parades around as the “Mother of the Nation,” yet cannot lift a finger for the real mothers of Zimbabwe.
She is silent when women are raped, when girls are married off as children, when hospitals have no medicine, when girls miss school because they can’t afford pads.
What kind of mother ignores her crying children?
Forty-five years after so-called independence, some children in Zimbabwe are still learning in the open — under trees, in the dust, exposed to heat, rain, and neglect.
They remain forgotten, abandoned, and failed by a system that promised them a future
- While she sits in luxury, women are dying in childbirth.
- While she attends ceremonies, children are dropping out of school.
- While she speaks in slogans, we are living in pain
Instead of flying abroad and spending more resources, Auxillia Mnangagwa should stay in Zimbabwe and confront the crisis at home.
Hosting her at the FLAIR Summit sends the wrong message — one that ignores the suffering of ordinary Zimbabweans.
We firmly oppose her participation at the FLAIR Summit
