Sally Francesca Hayfron

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Sally Francesca Hayfron

Sally (Sarah) Francesca Hayfron (born June 6, 1931 in Ghana , † January 27, 1992 in Harare ), married Mugabe was a politician and from 1961 until her death the first wife of Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe .

life and career

In 1958 she met Robert Mugabe, who, like her, taught at a college in Ghana. She married him in April 1961 in Salisbury . In 1962 she became politically active when she mobilized the Rhodesian women against the regime of Ian Smith , which wanted the country to be independent but wanted to maintain the dominance of the white minority. She was then sentenced to five years in prison, part of which was waived.

In 1967 she went into exile in London , from where she fought for the release of political prisoners in Rhodesia, including her husband, who was arrested in 1964 and spent 10 years in prison. After his release in 1975 and his flight to Mozambique , she followed him to Maputo , where she took special care of the Rhodesian refugees.

In 1978 she became deputy party secretary of the ZANU-PF Women's League . After the end of the colonial government and Mugabe's election as president in 1980, she became the "First Lady" of Zimbabwe. In 1989 she was elected the first party secretary of the women's league at the ZANU-PF party congress.

She founded the Zimbabwe Child Survival Movement . Furthermore, she was president of lepers Society of Zimbabwe (Leper Society of Zimbabwe).

Sally Hayfron died of kidney failure on January 27, 1992 at the age of 60 . On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of her death, a series of stamps with her image was published in Zimbabwe in 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae of President Robert Gabriel Mugabe ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Zimbabwean government website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gta.gov.zw
  2. ↑ Elton Dzikiti: Mugabe's marriage on the rocks ?; Association of Zimbabwe Journalists; 29th Jan 2007
  3. ^ Stamp series from Zimbabwe .

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personal data
SURNAME Hayfron, Sally Francesca
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mugabe, Sally Francesca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zimbabwean politician, politician and wife of Robert Mugabe
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghana
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1992
Place of death Harare