Shingai Nyoka BBC News, Harare Getty Images Before the land reform programme, Zimbabwe had about 2,500 white farmers owning 4,000 farms A quarter of a century after their land was seized during a chaotic land reform programme that made global headlines, a small group of white Zimbabwean farmers have accepted a controversial compensation deal from...
Anna Varle South West health correspondent BBC Trudy Herniman (left) was 23 years old when her mother, a farmer’s wife, took her own life Trudy Herniman was 23 years old when her mother, a farmer’s wife, took her own life. “She wasn’t someone who cried. She was very matter-of-fact and just got on with things,”...
Democrats have been searching for some issue with which they could get political purchase, given how adrift they have been and how their popularity has plummeted. They needed something…anything…around which they could rally their party, get their ground troops mobilized, and most importantly, get some politically powerful group or another to come to their defense. ...