14 February in African history

Police suppress Valentine’s day protests organised by WOZA

Police violently suppressed peaceful protests held in Harare and Bulawayo by Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA). Over 188 protesters we arrested and beaten.

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MDC founding president Morgan Tsvangirai died

Zimbabwe’s longtime opposition party leader and former Prime Minister Richard Morgan Tsvangirai died on this day in 2018. Tsvangirai succumbed to colon cancer in Johannesburg. Tsvangirai was the president of the MDC-T party at the time of his death, which he co-founded as Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in 1999.

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Hilton Cartwright was born

Hilton Cartwright, a Zimbabwean born Australian cricketer was born on this day in 1992. Cartwright was born in Harare and spent most of his childhood in Marondera where his parents owned a farm. He moved to Australia in 2003 after their farm became subject to Zimbabwean government land reform programme.

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