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Africa Subsaharan
Zimbob MP attacked with machetes
2006-07-06
Zimbabwe's only white woman MP was in a Harare hospital yesterday with machete wounds to her head and a broken arm and wrist after she was attacked by thugs from a rival opposition faction. Trudy Stevenson, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) MP for Harare North constituency, was battered with stones and iron bars on Sunday in the working-class township of Mabvuku by youths who accused her of turning against the party founder, Morgan Tsvangirai. "It really hurts to be harmed by people I used to work with," she told the Herald newspaper. "They intended to kill me". Four other opposition officials were injured in the incident. Feuding between the two MDC factions has intensified in recent months. "ZANU-PF never physically harmed me," said Ms Stevenson of Robert Mugabe's party.

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Posted by: Fur Trapper   2006-07-06 19:47  

#4  Paris frocks on the womenfolk do not make a beast human. That was Idi Amin's tragedy, and Robert Mugabe's as well. Africa's tragedy is that they don't kill such people in the cradle.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-07-06 12:39  

#3  This reminds me of a paragraph from an article on Idi Amin that I was reading last night. Here it is:

"An obituary for Amin published in 'The Sydney Morning Herald' on 18 August 2003 eloquently summarises the predicament. "Amin's tragedy, like that of so many Africans, was to have admired a civilisation whose external trappings he strongly desired, but of whose internal workings he had no idea, while at the same time he was partly enclosed in the mental world of a primitive tribalist," the obituary concludes."
http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/amin.html
Posted by: Darrell   2006-07-06 08:53  

#2  "ZANU-PF never physically harmed me," said Ms Stevenson of Robert Mugabe's party.

Wow, what compassionate reverse affirmative action in action Bob has. Guess they haven't harmed you physically (yet) because you weren't a landowner, Ms. Trudy?
Posted by: BA   2006-07-06 08:45  

#1  A very brave lady indeed. Makes you realise Zimbabwe is utterly and totally screwed.
Posted by: Howard UK   2006-07-06 04:53  

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