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BBC Focus on Africa

The comeback hero we then chose to forget

Dec 5, 2018 50,660

Just two days before a panel of local football specialists met to choose the 2018 Soccer Star of the Year, an inspiring tale of the ultimate in human defiance was broadcast on the BBC Focus on Africa television programme to millions of…
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Diaspora

Malema meets exiles from Zimbabwe in London

Aug 1, 2012 817

Julius Malema, the former leader of the Youth League of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, shocked Zimbabwean revellers enjoying an afternoon barbecue at a sports club in London on Sunday by turning up unannounced.
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Opinion

Mujuru nearly burnt to death in 1976

Aug 17, 2011 1,223

I first met Solomon Mujuru at the Geneva Airport when the joint delegation of Zipra and Zanla commanders who had formed ZIPA Zimbabwe People’s came to the Geneva Conference Rhodesian settlement talks in 1976.
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