Book Launch: Through the Darkness by Judith Todd

We take great pleasure in inviting you to the launch of Judith Todd’s searing memoir of the first 25 years of Robert Mugabe’s rule in Zimbabwe, Through the Darkness.

Prof Kader Asmal, MP, will introduce Todd and her book. To download an excerpt (Chapter 22), please click here.

Todd, the daughter of Sir Garfield Todd, erstwhile prime minister of colonial Southern Rhodesia, spent eight years in exile in Britain as an opponent of white minority rule in Ian Smith’s Rhodesia. She returned to Zimbabwe shortly before independence in 1980, and soon realised that, far from being the solution to Zimbabwe’s ills, Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu (PF) party were increasingly becoming the problem.

As director of the Zimbabwe Project Trust, she worked for many years with members of the former liberation armies, the so-called war veterans. By 2003, she had become such a thorn in Mugabe’s side that he stripped her of her citizenship. She now lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

We hope you can join us for the launch.

Event Details

• Date: Thursday, 04 October 2007
• Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
• Venue: Wordsworth Books, Gardens Centre, Shop 7
  Gardens Centre Mill Street, Gardens | Map
• Guest Speaker: Kader Asmal
• RSVP: , Wordsworth Books Gardens Centre, gardens@wordsworth.co.za, 021 461 8464

Book Details

• Through the Darkness by Judith Todd
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  EAN: 9781770220027
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