Title: Through the darkness :
Authors: Todd, Judith Garfield,
Date: 2005
Publisher: Zebra Press,
Physical description: xii, 460 p., [8] p. of plates : ports. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Abstract: Judith Todd, the daughter of Sir Garfield Todd, prime minister of colonial Southern Rhodesia, spent eight years in exile in Britain as an opponent of white minority rule in Ian Smith's Rhodesia. She returned to Zimbabwe shortly before independence in 1980, and soon realized that, far from being the solution to Zimbabwe's ills, Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu (PF) party were increasingly becoming the problem. As the country slid into economic and social decline, Todd had a front-row view from her position as director of an international aid agency, which rehabilitates returning refugees from the bush war. Over the first 25 years of Mugabe's rule, she kept journals, notes and copies of letters and documents from which she has compiled an intensely personal account of life in Zimbabwe, and the suffering and struggles of the ordinary people. By 2005, she had become such a thorn in Mugabe's side that he stripped her of her citizenship. She now lives in Cape Town, South Africa, but has been granted New Zealand citizenship.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Political activists--Zimbabwe--Biography.; Todd, Judith Garfield, 1943-; Todd, Judith Garfield.; Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1980-; Zimbabwe--Social conditions--1980-