Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s land issue has generated unprecedented debates both within and outside the country.

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February 2010 marked one year of Zimbabwe’s Government of National Unity. It also marked ten years since the ‘no’ vote in Zimbabwe’s constitutional referendum. Both seemed hopeful events at the time and produced genuine celebrations. But neither has brought the positive results hoped for.

The General Agricultural and Plantation Workers Union (GAPWUZ) in Zimbabwe is again under attack. General secretary Gertrude Hambira is currently in hiding and at least one official under arrest.

In a typical politically dramatic horror a Youth Alliance for Democracy (YAD) advocacy officer, Tichaona Masiyambiri almost kissed goodbye to life.

Freedom Nyamubaya is a writer, poet and rural development activist. She cut short her secondary school education to join the Zimbabwe National Liberation Army in Mozambique in 1975. During the war she was one of the few female field operation commanders.