Zimbabwe: 'My Heart Bleeds - Talk of Women's Rights in Zim Just a Façade'

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Zimbabwe: 'My Heart Bleeds - Talk of Women's Rights in Zim Just a Façade'

[Zimbabwe Standard] The removal of Robert Mugabe in November 2017 through a military coup which ushered in the so-called "Second Republic" gave the Zimbabwean populace false hope on national transformation and a democratic developmental state.

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