Background
Her father was arrested at the same time and went to jail in Gatooma.
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Selected as one of The Economists Best Books of 2007! For more than three decades, Judith Todd has been at loggerheads with successive governments of Zimbabwe. After being jailed and then exiled by Ian Smith's regime, she returned to her country in 1980 and soon realised that, far from being the solution to Zimbabwe's ills, Robert Mugabe and Zanu (PF) were increasingly becoming the problem. As the country slid into social and economic decline, Todd's position as director of a local development agency gave her a unique vantage point from which to observe the increasing arrogance and cruelty of Zimbabwe's leaders and the suffering and struggles of ordinary citizens. Peopled with household names from diplomats and politicians to international correspondents and liberation leaders, Through the Darkness takes readers from the family ranch outside Bulawayo to Buckingham Palace, from the bowels of Zimbabwe's prisons to the inner sanctums of Mugabe's cabinet. It is also the story of the country's silenced people - their courage, their irrepressible humour, their hopes and their feelings of betrayal. Drawing from journals, letters and documents, this is a fascinating personal account of life in Zimbabwe
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Her father was arrested at the same time and went to jail in Gatooma.
She had been married from 1974 for ten years to Richard Acton. Todd was a political activist from the early 1960s opposing the minority government of Ian Smith. In January 1972, she was arrested and sent to a jail in Marandellas.
During her imprisonment, she briefly went on hunger strike to protest their detention, but relented after enduring several incidents of force-feeding.
Several weeks later, both were released and were subsequently expelled from the country, becoming personae non gratae. She relocated to London.
lieutenant was founded to help Zimbabwean refugees. Her exile lasted until all detentions were lifted in February 1980 under the process leading to the independence of Zimbabwe.
The trust relocated from London to Zimbabwe and Todd was appointed director, a position she held until 1987.
The trust"s focus shifted to humanitarian aid, especially relocation and training of liberation war ex-combatants. She became a strong critic the regime of Robert Mugabe. After an unsuccessful candidature for a seat in parliament for the Zimbabwe African People"s Union (ZAPU) she worked as a journalist.
She was a founding shareholder of the Daily News newspaper in 1999, the paper was banned in 2003.
Also in 2003 Todd was stripped of her Zimbabwean citizenship.
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