Attempts by a group of elderly Brits in Zimbabwe to hold celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in Harare last week were quashed by the police who invoked the repressive Public Order and Security Act (POSA).
According to reports, a planned celebratory picnic on a farm outside Harare by the Royal Society of St George was banned, allegedly because "a crowd of whites waving the Union Jack on a white-owned farm would provoke trouble among local ZANU PF militants."
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