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Tsvangirai, 56, became accustomed to responsibility at an early age. The son of a carpenter and bricklayer from Gutu, south of the capital, Harare, and the eldest of nine, he quit school early to work the nickel mines of Mashonaland in northern Zimbabwe. In 10 years, he rose from plant operator to general foreman. Under the white government of the time, there was more than one way for a political aspirant to agitate for change. Mugabe fought for freedom; Tsvangirai chose the mine-workers union. In 1980, Mugabe, then 56, inaugurated a free Zimbabwe. Eight years later, Tsvangirai became secretary...
...tool of colonial-minded Britain. (Jackson says funding comes from NGOs and other donors, but not the British government.) Station personnel have been banned from their homeland - though sources still phone in with their reports. And the staff sometimes hears of listeners being targeted. Recently, in the Mashonaland West town of Zvimba, two teens listening in on someone else's radio were beaten by soldiers. In fact, SW Radio is only taking a page from Mugabe's own playbook. During the chimurenga in the 1970s, his party aired reports on shortwave from Mozambique. Listeners would huddle clandestinely around radios, waiting...
...column marched 400 miles northward, formally took possession of King Lobengula's vassal state of Mashonaland, and began staking out their plots. The old King was dismayed. "I thought you came to dig gold," he wrote the British South Africa Co.'s board of directors, "but it seems you have come to rob me of my people and my country as well...
Anglican Bishop Cecil Alderson of Mashonaland backed him up. Said he: "Clutton-Brock has taken the only course open to an honorable man to take...
Today starts a mass exodus of CRIMSON editors to the tiny village of Lobenguiatown. Mashonaland, somewhat north of the Upper Limpopo. The Crimeds' caravan of insoluble Copra rafts departs from Gloucester at 1635. They will be guided across the ocean by Edward J. Coughlin '52, noted international spy. Those unable to meet Coughlin's rigid security regulations will stay behind to put out the Commencement issues. No other Crime until September...