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October 18, 2008

A 'Cheeky Little Devil' Leads Rights Fight in Zimbabwe

By Celia W. Dugger, International Herald Tribune, France - During years when millions of her compatriots have fled the country - among them her mother, husband and three children, now in their 20s - Jenni Williams, 46, a stocky high school dropout, has lived underground in Zimbabwe, moving from safe house to safe house as she and her colleagues built a formidable protest movement among the church women of Harare and Bulawayo.

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Zimbabwe really needs political activists like Jenni Williams who are not afraid of rolling in the mud and getting dirty. many of leaders who started off the struggle to free Zimbabwe from Mugabe have lost the plot are now power hungry people who do not have the people of Zimbabwe at heart. From the time she started political activism, Williams has not lost the plot, she is consistent and has the people of Zimbabwe at heart...if everyone could be like this, Zimbabwe's problems would have long been solved.

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