Daughter of former leader reflects on oppression in Zimbabwe
A United Nations study has found that 2.5 million people in Zimbabwe have been affected by slum demolitions that were ordered by President Mugabe as part of a national ‘clean-up’ campaign. Villages have been systematically destroyed by police, leaving their inhabitants homeless and without food. Human rights activist and author Judith Todd who was in Sydney this week, says the political situation in Zimbabwe is atrocious and called for urgent international reaction. Ms Todd is the daughter of Sir Garfield Todd, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was previously known. She was unlawfully stripped of her citizenship in 2001 for speaking out against Mugabe and arrested for being one of the directors of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, publisher of “the Daily News”. Nicky Redl asked what methods are being used against political opponents of President Mugabe’s regime.