{UAH} Sally Mugabe should never be forgotten

Sally Mugabe should never be forgotten

Robert Mugabe's first wife did a lot of good work for Zimbabwe's women and children, writes Margaret Owen

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 Sally and Robert Mugabe in 1985. Photograph: Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock

I am saddened that your obituary for Robert Mugabe (Journal, 7 September) omits any reference to the work of his wonderful first wife, Sally (though it mentions her name). She was secretary general of the Zanu-PF women's league, founder of the Zimbabwe Child Survival Programme and a backer of the pan-Africa consortium Akina Mama wa Afrika. She also launched the Zimbabwe Women's Co-operative in the UK. She was a great feminist, inspiring many of us women's rights activists and NGOs around the world, and died far too young.

How different she was from her successor, Grace. But why are her unique initiatives for Zimbabwe's women and children omitted in all these eulogies? More gender bias? She should never be forgotten.
Margaret Owen
Director, Widows for Peace Through Democracy

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