Esther Mahlangu at the retrospective of her work at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town.
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At 88 the artist Esther Mahlangu is world famous and is the subject of a major exhibition in Cape Town.
Detail from the cover of Langabi.
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Christopher Mlalazi, award-winning novelist, was inspired by the stories he was told by his grandparents as a child.
Zimbabwean author of We Need New Names, Noviolet Bulawayo.
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Variations of English names reveal the enduring effects of British rule - but there’s also a return to tradition.
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has not faced official investigation or prosecution over his role in Operation Gukurahundi – 40 years on.
King Lobengula holds Mbuya Nehanda in the mural.
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The unity between Zimbabwe’s two main ethnic groups is so fragile that even an inspirational street mural can expose it.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s clampdown on dissent in Matabeleland claimed up to 20 000 lives.
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The effects of President Mugabe’s post-independence security clampdown that led to the murder of between 10 000 and 20 000 Zimbabweans, known as the Matabeleland massacre, continue to be felt.