During a meeting in Randburg (South Africa), the Managing Director of Nestlé in Southern Africa, Sullivan O’Carrol, gave the South African civil rights initiative, AfriForum, its assurance that from 4 October 2009, Nestlé will no longer buy any milk from Grace Mugabe – wife of the Zimbabwean dictator, Robert Mugabe.

This undertaking follows after AfriForum had launched an international campaign called www.nestlebloodmilk.com. In the light of Nestlé’s undertaking, Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, undertook on behalf of AfriForum not to go ahead with the planned boycott.

Kriel welcomed Nestlé’s decision and described this turn of events as a victory for justice.

According to Kriel, AfriForum will continue with efforts to make certain that unceasing pressure is brought to bear on the Mugabe regime to ensure that human rights violations in Zimbabwe are brought to an end.

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Facts regarding human rights violations by the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe:

• 18 Activists, as well as 2 journalists, have recently been arrested because of political reasons by the security forces of Mugabe;
• Since 2001, approximately 3 000 cases were recorded by NGOs of people being tortured by Mugabe’s security forces;
• During Mugabe’s Operation Murambatsvina in 2005, a total of 700 000 people were left homeless;
• Since 1998, the average life-expectancy in Zimbabwe has decreased from 55 years to a mere 35 years;
• 50% of Zimbabweans face malnutrition and a shortage of food on a daily basis;
• Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate is estimated to be between 80% and 85%;
• 13% of Zimbabwean children die before they reach the age of 5 years and in more than 50% of the cases, their deaths could have been prevented;
• There is no respect for property rights in Zimbabwe; and
• Mugabe clings to power, in spite of the fact that he had lost the previous election.

(Source: THE ZIMBABWE PAPERS, click here ).