Very happy to see Thabitha Khumalo in the Torygraph this week, pictured looking very well. After the crackdown in Zimbabwe, she was almost insanely brave to fly back home from TUC Congress in Brighton, as the country’s most senior trades unionist outside jail, to help organise bail and medical help for her colleagues. She knew full well that she might herself be arrested and beaten (she has been before), and I was very concerned we might never see her again.

She’s been back in the UK though, to receive a UK Woman of the Year Award, for her work with the ZCTU and her “Dignity, period” campaign. It’s very good to see her getting some of the recognition she is certainly due. Can’t imagine that a medal from the UK will endear her to Mad Bob’s Anglophobe regime though.

Meanwhile in Zimbabwe, the charges against Wellington Chibebe seem to have been bumped up to actually assaulting police officers (”Yes, your honor, he sustained those severe head injuries when he repeatedly headbutted our officers”).

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