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For more than three decades, Judith Todd has been at loggerheads with
successive governments of
Rhodesia
and later
Zimbabwe
. After being jailed and exiled and then exiled by Ian Smith’s
Rhodesian Front regime, she returned to her country in 1980 with high
hopes of future democracy but soon realised that, far from being the
solution to
Zimbabwe
’s ills, Robert Mugage and his ZANU-PF were increasingly becoming the
problem.
As the country slid into social and eco0nomic decline, Todd’s position
as director of a local development agency gave her a unique vantage
point from which to observe the increasing arrogance and cruelty of
Zimbabwe
’s new leaders and the suffering and struggled of ordinary people.
Peoples with household names from diplomats and politicians to
international correspondents and liberation leaders, this book takes
readers from the family ranch outside
Bulawayo
to
Buckingham
Palace
, from the bowels of
Zimbabwe
’s prisons to the inner sanctums of Mugabe’s cabinet.
It is also the story of the country’s silenced people — their
courage, their irrepressible humour,
their hopes and their feelings of betrayal.
Drawn from journals, letters and documents, this is a fascinating
personal account of an increasingly repressive life in
Zimbabwe
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