1 Christmas Charity Appeal 2010 Once again, it’s a time for giving

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH White pensioners and poor black families alike are FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2010 the victims of ’s economic catastrophe

ANE is a charity with a This is a collection of clear purpose. “We aim to articles published in Z give hope where there is no hope,” says former MP Tom Benyon, who in 2002 set from November 2010 to up Zimbabwe A National Emergency in response to January 2011 to what he hoped would be a highlight the work of short-lived crisis. He was moved to help by ZANE. meeting Cathy Olds, a Published by kind permission. Zimbabwean who fled to Britain with her children after her husband, a farmer, was murdered. On visiting Zimbabwe, he saw the effects Comment of rampant inflation, which wiped out assets and savings and left large parts of the Our generous population destitute.

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Charity Appeal We must not forget Zimbabwe

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ZANE is a charity dedicated to alleviating suffering. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2010 Graham Boynton explains why the country he loves needs its help so badly

recently dug out from my than a century, Rhodesians civil war after which power duty, combined with their attic a photograph taken were setting about modifying would be transferred to the resourcefulness and diligence, in at the end of the social and political man whose name would were major contributors to the 1960s. It was landscape to accommodate become synonymous with the success of the colony and I primarily a snap of my the indigenous people despotic African rule. Despite therefore the well-being of teenage self with a girlfriend properly. Mugabe’s promises to Ian both its white and black at the Hillside dams, a The moderates on both sides Smith at the time he took citizens. The shabbiness and popular picnic spot in the were not quick enough. power that he would look disorder in the principal second city of . What Unfortunately, the decision- after the country he had cities and the virtual absence was interesting about the making processes ended up in inherited from the of a properly functioning civil photograph was not the the hands of whites like Ian conscientious and innovative service are significant grinning teenage couple but Smith, an arch-conservative colonials, in fact he has pointers to the shambles that that fact that at this particular with limited political skills, dismantled and destroyed the is Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. spot were families and groups and blacks like Robert infrastructure with a cavalier Now, as Zimbabwe enters its of all races – white, African Mugabe, a ruthless enforcer disregard for his own people's second decade as a socially and Indian – enjoying a even from his early days. (The welfare. and economically failed state, Sunday in the sunshine. There idea that Mugabe “turned the price is being paid by the is a carefree multi-racialism bad” at some stage during his ordinary people. Mugabe’s about the scene. despotic reign is unsupported elite have barely noticed the Pre-Mugabe Rhodesia has by fact – he was always calamitous decline, although mostly been portrayed as a prepared to employ a ❝ they have been somewhat period of evil, race-driven scorched earth policy on his This beautiful inconvenienced by the fact colonialism where the white political enemies). that their shopping trips to minority firmly planted their Both men were creatures of country’s lurching Bond Street and rue du boots on the throats of the their time. Smith was elected Faubourg Saint-Honore have black majority, oppressing in 1963 only three years after journey to been disrupted by sanctions and exploiting them until they white Belgian refugees had imposed on them by the EU. were driven into a guerrilla fled into Rhodesia from dictatorship has However, that inner circle of war that was to rage for more anarchy and bloodshed in the politicians, cronies and than a decade. The decolonised Congo. They had been a calamity relatives continue to live the photograph suggests that the arrived with tales of whites high life while the majority of truth about Rhodesia was a being murdered in the streets Zimbabweans struggle to feed great deal more complicated, and that sent reverberations themselves. Only last week, and race relations and the through Rhodesia’s white the wife of one of Mugabe’s progress towards minority at just the time that ministers was overheard enfranchisement were far the West was demanding As Mugabe and his cronies telling a companion that so more nuanced, than the immediate handover of have gone about looting the much money was pouring into traditional viewpoint from political power. Mugabe, country, they have also her family’s bank account this side of the fence. meanwhile, was transforming allowed to fall into disrepair, “that we have to buy a new While we Rhodesian whites himself from a clever either wilfully or through property every year”. certainly enjoyed a happy-go- Christian schoolboy to an blissful ignorance, the The plain facts of lucky, privileged youth we uncompromising Marxist- mechanisms that supported Zimbabwe’s fall tell the story. were also aware that the Leninist, a perfect anti- colonial Rhodesia’s In 2000 that total output of future had to be shared with Western front line activist for phenomenal growth. Most the country’s agricultural the black majority. We were the Cold War ideologues in notable of these mechanisms industry was 4.3 million proudly unlike Moscow and Peking. was an unideological civil tonnes of products worth, at where racial separation was We – the grinning white service, which provided the today’s prices, US$ 4.3 billion. written into the constitution teenagers in that fading glue that held the various By last year this had declined and through the 1950s and photograph and the black functioning institutions to 1.3 billion tonnes worth $1 1960s was seeping into its families sitting around together. billion, a fall of 70 per cent. population’s bloodstream. We enjoying picnics on the same Whatever the private More than half of the 4,000 were largely from British immaculately-tended lawns – political views of these largely white-owned farms taken by stock and, having hacked and were innocently enjoying the white civil servants – and the Mugabe regime are now hewn an impressively efficient last days of relative peace. For many of them went home at derelict. This forced and successful modern society soon, Rhodesia would be night and supported Ian displacement has resulted in out of raw bushveld in less engulfed in an unwinnable Smith – their sense of public loss of employment for at 3 S E G A M I

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D N O M S E D Children in Harare shanty town: once the breadbasket of central Africa, Zimbabwe now depend on food aid to feed its population least 250,000 people and food aid to avoid starvation. years to rebuild the country leave a country most were poverty for their 1.3 million It was the assault on the into even a shadow of its born in. dependants on commercial white farms that indirectly led former self,” says Benyon. And while its political farms. From being a to the formation of the charity “And the political rapproche- leaders strut about in Savile prosperous, self-sufficient ZANE (Zimbabwe A National ment that has been much Row suits sipping malt whisky country that was the Emergency). In 2002 ZANE’s trumpeted over the last two and negotiating their next breadbasket of Central Africa founder, Tom Benyon, met years has made no difference property deals, charities such and a net exporter of Cathy Olds, a third generation to the man in the street. as ZANE are left caring for agricultural product, Zimbabwean who had fled, Mugabe and his cronies will their most vulnerable citizens. Zimbabwe now depends on destitute, to the UK with her not give up power. Tsvangirai It is the story of post-colonial food aid to feed its population. two children after the murder and his colleagues are brave Africa. This has all been conducted of her husband Martin on men but they’ve been forced in a cloud of anti-colonial their Matabeleland farm. “I to get into bed with the mafia. rhetoric from Mugabe and his raised money for Cathy and in So nothing has changed for corrupt cronies who claim the following year I visited ordinary, struggling people.” that their actions are Zimbabwe myself to confirm This beautiful country’s readjusting the wrongs of the that the overall situation was lurching journey from past. As the plain facts reveal, utterly desperate.” prosperous colony to multi- nothing could be further from Since then ZANE has raised racial democracy to damaged HOW TO DONATE the truth. The victims are the some £8 million for its African dictatorship has been black majority and the beneficiaries who range from a calamity for most of its There are three ways to remnants of the white white pensioners barely able citizens. At least three million donate: community, in the latter case to afford a daily meal through Zimbabweans have fled to pensioners who have seen to black Zimbabweans in the neighbouring South Africa 1 Visit www.zane.uk.com their savings destroyed by high density suburbs who and tens of thousands live in 2 By post, see donation hyper-inflation. Famine Early require medical care in a Britain. The white community Warning Systems Network, a country now ravaged by HIV that at its peak numbered form on page 12 food security monitoring Aids and with an all but almost 300,000 people is now 3 Call our credit card hotline group, has said in some years dysfunctional medical system. estimated at fewer than 020 7788 7803 almost 6 million “The economic decline has 20,000, many of these elderly Zimbabweans would need been total … it will take many people who cannot afford to 4

HIV-Aids infection and, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH through the dedicated SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2010 counselling of the health workers, Aids is now seen as a disease and not a disgrace. Peta Thornycroft Robert has Aids – and for reports from Harare someone who has recently lost the use of his legs, the 48-year on the courageous old has a sharp sense of efforts of ZANE, a humour. Sitting on the only charity working to get “chair” (it is an old tractor tyre) in his shelter, he roars Zimbabwe’s poorest with laughter when asked if his back on their feet wider family can help support him and his immediate family. anaka, whose name “Do you know of anyone here means “it is nice” in who has a job? I don’t know a Zimbabwe’s Shona single person who has a job. I Tlanguage, was born in used to have a job as a farm Harare on August 13. She and worker, but the white man I her twin brother, Tawanda, was working for was kicked off seemed well when they left the his land.” state maternity hospital, and So Robert now lives in a the family celebrated their Harare ghetto, in a plastic and birth. cardboard shelter held Early one morning, three together with tape, where weeks later, however, the there is no electricity and no babies’ father, Farai, 38, went sewage system. The family to their bed: only one of the survives because his wife walks newborns was crying for food. ‘We can help this about 20 miles every day to Tawanda was dead. collect wood to sell. When a community health Robert receives free anti - worker visited the grieving retroviral drugs, but his wife, couple, it became apparent family pull through’ Lilian, 35, though also HIV- that the baby had starved to positive is not considered ill death. The babies’ mother, enough to qualify for the Patience, had insufficient milk that once exported surplus during the clearances. The UN drugs. for one baby, let alone two. farm produce to the rest of provided temporary plastic She looks fit and is receiving “We realised that the Africa means that millions of shelters, but there weren’t decent nutrition thanks to the surviving child needed Zimbabweans have an enough to go around, and ZANE -supported health supplementary feeding,” says inadequate diet. people such as Farai and workers. Robert is taken in the the health worker, whose “We brought in food to feed Patience were left to live in volunteers’ truck to have his modest salary is paid by Patience up and improve the houses constructed from blood checked every month, ZANE, one of this year’s quantity of her breast milk,” cardboard, with only a plastic and weekly he sees a Telegraph Christmas charities. said the community worker, roof against the elements. physiotherapist. Slowly, he is The charity was set up by the who – like all ZANE’s local “We are dreading the rains,” regaining some use of his legs. former MP Tom Benyon in employees – cannot be named says Farai. “We want rain so His three children, aged 2002, after he met Cathy Olds, for safety reasons. we can grow vegetables, but we between six and 13, aren’t a Zimbabwean who fled to Tanaka is now a healthy know we will be wet all being educated as there is no Britain with her children when 3.5kg, slightly below the through summer.” money for even the modest her husband, a farmer, was normal weight for a baby of The community worker is fees asked by the local school. murdered. On visiting her age, “but she is catching up positive, however. “We think Anthony, 13, has to spend Zimbabwe, Mr Benyon saw for fast”. this family can pull through much of his time heaving his himself the dramatic effects of In normal terms, it didn’t with support. “Our main work father’s heavy frame around. the country’s hyper inflation, take much to ensure the health is not to provide food, but to The young boy has had three which wiped out assets and of Tanaka – some beans, help people survive by making years of schooling in the past, savings and left large parts of cooking oil, peanut butter and them self-sufficient, so we and would love to finish his the population destitute. dried fish and, according to the encourage them to grow education. “I can still The charity now has 32 health worker, “within days, vegetables, or help them set up remember how to read and employees as well as scores of Patience’s milk supply small shops, or transfer skills write a bit,” he says. volunteers, helping a wide improved” – but in Zimbabwe so they can provide for their “We try to get involved in the range of Zimbabweans, from and, in particular, in the families.” most extreme cases,” says the pensioners – many of them troubled suburbs of Harare, it Farai had been a policeman health worker. Unfortunately, former British civil servants takes a wide network of for 10 years before he was the network of volunteers and soldiers who lost their community workers, oper at ing forced to leave the force in doesn’t have the resources yet property and savings and are carefully and diplomati cally, to 2008. “I don’t know why I was to help everyone in the ghetto. barely surviving – to the poor help those most in need. sacked, I never talked politics “This family are dependent on and needy in the slums, where Often it is dangerous work. at work,” he says. Now, he has the mother selling firewood, one in three people under 40 This sort of high-density no job. He also has HIV-Aids, but we can help in other ways.” suffers from Aids. suburb was targeted for and his dry, red lips are telltale Like Farai and Patience, Last year, it channelled £1.3 clearance by Robert Mugabe’s signs that the anti retroviral Robert and Lilian live from million from overseas to fund Zanu-PF government five drugs he is receiving, thanks to day to day. Their one hope is its work and to give small cash years ago, three years before it western aid, have yet to stall that the government will grants to some of the neediest. struck a “power-sharing” the progress of the disease. continue to leave their meagre Conditions in the country, agreement with the oppo sition Patience is free of the virus, homes standing, and then, where the average life MDC. although both her parents died with ZANE ’s help, they will be expectancy is just 46, can be The UN estimates that more from it a few years ago. able to carry on trying to appalling, and the continuing than two million people lost Most people in urban areas rebuild their lives. shortage of food in a nation homes and small businesses now openly talk about their Names have been changed. 5

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2010 Spirited away –

Hundreds of pensioners have escaped Zimbabwe but what about thanks to the British Government. Many who remain there those left behind? depend on ZANE for survival, says Elizabeth Grice

hey came quietly in a heart condition, where did groups of eight or 10, you get drugs? People just proud but desperate faded away and died. Partly, TBritish men and women they lost heart. When the who had been made destitute Government’s repatriation by the Mugabe regime. As scheme was introduced, it was little as possible was said such a fantastic thing. It was about their escape from an offer of salvation.” Zimbabwe to avoid Before her situation jeopardising their rescue. deteriorated, Mrs Twiss was Though they mingled with doing voluntary work for ordinary passengers in the ZANE – Zimbabwe A National chaos at Harare airport, there 'Fear was everywhere': like thousands of other pensioners in Emergency – a charity set up was an unusual tension in the eight years ago by the former Zimbabwe, Dawn Twiss lost all her savings and saw medical air as they waited for flights. MP Tom Benyon to alleviate Some were numb with shock, services collapse the effects of hyperinflation unable to believe that on desperate Zimbabweans, salvation was at hand. Others savings had been swept away nothing. People queued for both white and black. Using a wept openly to be leaving a in Zimbabwe’s economic three or four days to take different name to protect its country they loved. From collapse. Some were sick. money out of the bank. I saw a work, it operates “under the February 2009 until October Most had become dependent man in a supermarket one day radar” in Zimbabwe, helping this year, this covert operation on hand-outs. with a tin of dog food and a farmers whose lands have – organised by the The former IT head of a big packet of sausages in his been seized, dispensing Government and British sugar company, Mrs Twiss, basket. The cashier told him money to the new poor for charities – was repeated again whose parents were British, he didn’t have enough money rent, food and medicine. It is and again until the last one of found herself almost destitute for both. He took the dog proud that not a single penny 346 British citizens eligible to after 40 happy years in food. It was so sad. People be repatriated was safe. Zimbabwe. “I had worked and who had nothing were selling “The anxiety, right to the last saved because I knew, as a their pets, their only minute, was intense,” says widow, I must be companions. Dawn Twiss, 71, who was one independent,” she says. “I had “Medical services were my own house in the rural another horror. Dispensaries ❝ of the first to arrive. “For British pensioners like me, area of Chiredzi. Everything closed because they could not So much tragedy, this was the answer to every was secure and beautiful. It afford the drugs. Doctors left so much sadness. prayer they had been saying was the story of so many the country. Fear was for so long; a way out of people who had worked hard everywhere. Mothers who When will it all misery and despair. Though it and thought they were all were lucky enough to have was a big step into the right. Then it all fell apart. their babies in hospitals or end?” unknown, and I knew there And there was nothing we clinics would abandon them would be no way back, I saw could have done to avert because they were HIV this as the chance of a disaster.” positive and there was no lifetime. Down to the final Rampant inflation wiped out money for food, no home, drive to the airport – when we assets and savings. Mrs Twiss nothing. We pensioners were caught in a police speed sold her house and moved knitted for the ‘Aids babies’ – it has raised since 2002 has trap – I was fearful that into sheltered accommo - little tops we called Mother been lost to corruption. something would go wrong.” dation, but eventually could Teresa vests – because it was “The cushion they were Teachers, soldiers and not afford the rent. “They took all we could do. We used to providing was immense,” Mrs former civil servants are 10 noughts off the currency. say that things couldn’t get Twiss says. “Many of those among those who have been Boom. Just like that. It was any worse, but they always they were supporting were resettled with clandestine the end of everybody’s did. old, lonely or abandoned. efficiency across Britain savings. It cost a million “If you needed drugs, you Their children had left during a remarkable 18 dollars for a loaf of bread; two were in a desperate situation. Zimbabwe and they were too months of humanitarian million for a cabbage. Fear I stopped taking medication proud to ask for help. They effort. They were a was the worst thing. for a thyroid complaint. I did not want to be a drag on particularly vulnerable group “The elderly were utterly knew I wouldn’t die. But if their children or admit they and their situation was baffled to be told their money you were diabetic, where did were in trouble. ZANE just worsening by the day. All their had gone. The figures meant you get the insulin? If you had grew and grew.” ➔ 6

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2010

ormer MP Tom Benyon set up ZANE many are barely (Zimbabwe A National Emergency) in surviving. But everyone F2002 in response to what he hoped might – young and old, black be a short-lived crisis. He was moved to help and white – suffers in a by meeting Cathy Olds, a Zimbabwean who country where fled to Britain with her children after her unemployment has reached 90 per cent. husband, a farmer, was murdered. On visiting Medical care is free to children under five, but Continued from page 5 Zimbabwe, he saw the effects of rampant there are few doctors and clinics, so ZANE has inflation, which wiped out assets and savings extended its assistance to those who live in the Eventually, Mrs Twiss and left large parts of the population destitute. country’s slums, where one in three people needed ZANE’s help herself. ZANE’s brave workers operate “under the under 40 suffers from Aids. She was living mostly on radar”, as Benyon puts it, dispensing money cabbage and carrots and could directly to those who need it most. The no longer afford the rent for decision last year to adopt the US dollar as the her sheltered flat. “A wartime currency has helped stabilise Zimbabwe, but it HOW TO DONATE spirit existed such as Britain has created still more abject poverty. Savings experienced and the became worthless overnight. Since then, prices There are three ways to donate: community helped each other have escalated five-fold, leaving yet more in out. Some of the churches dire need. 1 Visit www.zane.uk.com brought food trucks from Pensioners have been particularly badly 2 By post, see donation form on page 12 South Africa. My elder sister, affected; among them, British former civil who lives there, would send servants and soldiers who chose to settle in the 3 Call our credit card hotline 020 7788 7803 me tuna and powdered milk. country. With great dignity but little to eat, There were – and are – people so much worse off. But I do not know what we pensioners THE DAILY TELEGRAPH would have done without SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2010 ZANE. I cannot explain what it meant to us. We had become scavengers. They gave us back our dignity.” Ex-Servicemen are ZANE played a significant among those living a role in the cross-government From D-day repatriation scheme and hand-to-mouth continues to support existence in desperate people who did not Zimbabwe, dependent either choose or qualify to come to Britain. hero to victim on the work of ZANE Dawn Twiss now lives in a for survival. local authority studio flat in Peta Thornycroft Wickford, Essex, where she will be supported for the rest reports of her life. She is unusual in of Mugabe allowing herself to be identified. Most of the hanks are due to the Bert is a D-Day veteran. prayer book from a pensioners who have been veterans for the Militants took over his farm in Thanksgiving Service in resettled in Britain are happy sacrifices they 2002, and he and Susan Germany on May 5, 1945. to share their experiences but made.” These are abandoned their small – and Bert, now 86, and Susan not their names because they “T the unequivocal words of productive – sugar estate in survive in a flat in Harare. But fear reprisals from the Colonel Paul Davis, the south-eastern Zimbabwe in “survive” is the key word. Mugabe regime on friends or deputy grand president of the haste. “We were too old to try They manage only because of family still in Zimbabwe. Royal Commonwealth Ex- to fight this invasion,” he says. financial assistance from the “It has made me very Services League (RCEL). He “And it costs too much to go RCEL, which boosts his UK grateful for what I have,” she was expressing his thanks at to court, so we packed up old age pension, and an says. “I am met with stares of an RCEL council meeting in frantically and moved out.” annual grant from ZANE disbelief when I try to explain response to a letter of thanks Among the treasured (Zimbabwe A National the situation in Zimbabwe to from Bert, a Second World possessions saved from the Emergency). people here. I think constantly War soldier, struggling to farm are drawings, cartoons, Susan had a stroke last year of the desperate plight of all support himself and his wife, medals, maps and and, while she has recovered, the vulnerable pensioners left Susan, in Zimbabwe. memorabilia – and a small both she and Bert fear sudden in Zim – the non-Brits, those whose health is failing and for whom medical care is unaffordable. I am overcome by the ZANE workers’ “Their future seems very dedication and efficiency and humbled uncertain. Quite apart from by their bravery. Through ZANE’s rising costs, shortages and “what infrastructure and hard work, hundreds failing public utilities, there is of veterans and widows are seeing out an election coming up and their twilight years with some dignity. who knows what that will others bring? Nothing good, I fear. Colonel Paul Davis Cbe There is still a great need for say . . . Secretary General, the assistance ZANE is giving. The Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League So much tragedy, so much sadness. When will it all end?” 7

of constant training was Suez Canal. A year later, he coming to an end. We shipped boarded a train for the a bit of water during the Mozambican port of Beira and landing, and got stuck, but we sailed for Malaya where he got out, and drove across the served for two years. length of the beach near Caen, Mfanyana remained in the and waited at the sea wall for Rhodesian army until about a week until we were independence in 1980, and reunited with the battalion.” continued to serve his country They pushed on through in the Zimbabwe National Europe, hiding in forests, Army until he retired five shredded from the constant years later. Retired soldiers shelling, often hungry, until are among the best paid of all the night the amphibious Zimbabwe’s former public assault vehicles crossed the servants, but Mfanyana’s Rhine. “We never once had to pension, which arrives call on a mechanic, never once irregularly, is usually no more did we lose an instrument,” than the equivalent of about Bert recalls proudly. £30 a month. He was demobbed in 1946 He has been saved during after further service in Italy Zimbabwe’s recent years of and Yugoslavia. After the war hyperinflation by an annual he joined his older brother grant from the RCEL, which who had, like many others, has been organised and paid gone to Zambia. He farmed to him via the British charity there, and then moved to ZANE. Bert with his wife Susan – and Mfanyana are two of the veterans to Rhodesia, as it was known His life has been difficult – whom ZANE distributes money (surnames withheld for their protec - then, where he was employed former Rhodesian soldiers tion). Top: Bert, 2nd from the left, and comrades in Europe after D-Day on several farms before have to be careful about setting up on his own to grow talking about their past. illness, as there is not a spare the news, and Churchill cane, which made him a Mfanyana also comes from a penny for any future medical announced formation of local decent living. part of the country where emergency. Although life in defence volunteers for Many years later, his and North Korean-trained Harare is expensive and youngsters like me and men Susan’s contented life was Zimbabwe soldiers massacred uncertain, Bert and Susan too old to go to war. I got on a brutally interrupted when thousands of Ndebele- want to stay in Zimbabwe to motorbike and joined up at militants began to force speaking people loyal to the be close to their family. the police station straight farmers off the land. Now, former opposition party, the Bert, the son of a First World away. instead of self-sufficiency they Zimbabwe African People’s War RAF pilot, drove a tank “We were kitted out get through from day to day Union (Zapu) between 1981 into France on day two of the eventually and I borrowed a with help from the RCEL and and 1987. D-Day landings at Sword pistol, a .303 from my father, ZANE. “I was a professional soldier, Beach. He needs little but as soon as I could, I joined This form of collaboration with much training. When I encouragement to recall the the RAF for training in helps many veterans and went into the Zimbabwe months of hard days and Aberystwyth, Wales. But I had former services personnel. army, I was working with freezing nights he spent in polio, very slightly, and was in Mfanyana is 81 and is from people who did not know how France, Belgium, the hospital in Swansea. I recov- the parched southern part of to read maps, for example. Netherlands and crossing the ered fully, but when I later sat Zimbabwe. He has, however, When I retired as a warrant Rhine in spring 1945. Looking the exams I failed the cloud- never forgotten the incessant officer, class 1, I bought a at the military memorabilia he test as I hadn’t been able to rain in Malaya, nor the farm, but I sold it as I feared saved from the farm, study. I joined the Army in swamps, where he fought and what has now happened on memories flood back of his Catterick and trained for risked his life. the farms – you know of what four comrades killed in the about eight months and was He joined the Rhodesian I am speaking.” tank he was driving. posted as a driver mechanic to African Rifles in 1950 because “I am so grateful to the “I remember we got a shell the 144th Battalion of the he was looking for a job. “I RCEL and to ZANE,” through the side, it ricocheted Royal Armoured Corps.” was going to join the police, Mfanyana says. “I could not around. It was like having Bert was busy with training, but it wasn’t a proper force live without them. Most of my one’s head in a hammer mill. waterproofing tanks and then,” he says. “In my sons have left Zimbabwe and The four of them, well I had guarding strategic experience in the army, blacks are now in South Africa, been living with them for installations along the south and whites were treated the because ... well, you know years ...” and he stops. “I think coast until June 1944. “We same. Life was OK, and we what has been going on in that was in Belgium.” knew it was coming [D-Day] had firstclass training.” Zimbabwe.” He continues: “When war and were excited. Every man After a year’s training he broke out I was too young to in the outfit was expert at went to Egypt. It was 1951 and join up but I was listening to their jobs. At last the drudgery for six months he guarded the

I have seen a little bit of ZANE’s work on the ground and from what I am enormously impressed by the I have seen it is very, very work ZANE does for ex-servicemen impressive . . . ZANE is one of those and their families in Zimbabwe. Well lovely organisations that make a done ZANE! I very much admire little bit of money go a long, long ZANE’s brave volunteers. way. ZANE is a good cause and the money is properly and well spent. General Sir evelyn Webb-Carter kCvo obe Controller of the Army Benevolent Fund John Simpson Cbe World Editor of the BBC 8

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2010 My quest to help victims Cassandra Jardine reports on how one woman’s touching story set a British MP of Mugabe’s regime on a mission to help CLARA MOLDEN Zimbabwe’s suffering n 2002, former MP Tom Benyon met the first of a Iseries of women who were to change the direction of his life. “Cathy Olds was a quiet woman from Zimbabwe who had suffered from polio,” he remembers. “Over dinner at a friend’s house, I teased out of her that her husband, Martin, had been murdered during one of the early farm repossessions. He fought back, then ran away to hide in a bath at their home, but died of his wounds before he could be helped.” Cathy had fled to England with their two children. The situation of this penniless family touched Tom Benyon and the work in Zimbabwe of his charity ZANE. ‘Every time I came to the top of a hill, I saw Benyon so deeply that he another one,’ he said raised £8,000 to help her settle in Britain. In the Colonel Norman Travers, he always given generously to and violence are rife. During process, he attracted the felt a profound moral charity, and started them the past eight years, Mr attention of someone of a very responsibility to help them in where he sees a need. Benyon’s background as a different ilk: Dame Daphne their time of need. While an MP, he set up and soldier, politician and Park, former senior MI6 “Norman was a man with a ran a volunteer group in businessman has proved officer and principal of great craggy, sunburnt face. I Aylesbury for the Guidepost invaluable. “I know how old Somerville College, Oxford. met him in a nursing home Trust, a charity to rehabilitate soldiers think, I know what This formidable woman – she where he told me about his the mentally ill back into the levers to pull, and I know how reminded him of the late time driving a tank in the community. A committed to run things,” he said. British actress Dame Second World War. He had Christian, he lives on private He also knows how to spot Margaret Rutherford – been awarded the Military investments but he has also committed people who will believed he could help not just Cross because, despite heavy raised money for two schools get help to those who need it. one but thousands of victims shelling, he had plunged into in Eastern India and started a Again, women have shown of Robert Mugabe’s regime. a blazing vehicle to pull one of Food Bank close to his home him the way. As a non- The charity ZANE: his men out, but by the time I in Oxford. Zimbabwean, he was Zimbabwe, a National met him he had lost struggling with the Emergency was born. Mr everything – even his MC had practicalities of operating in Benyon thought it would be a been stolen during a raid on that country until he met a five-year task, “but every time his house.” It was a proud ❝ brave local doctor and a I came to the top of a hill, I moment for both of them He had lost former teacher. Their names saw another one”. when, on Armistice Day 2008, cannot be divulged, nor their In late 2010, with political Mr Benyon pinned a replace- everything - even his pictures shown. Even the local tension and incidents of vio - ment MC on Col Travers’s names of the organisations lence increasing in Zimbabwe chest. Military Cross had through which they work as Mr Mugabe calls for The son of a First World War been stolen in a raid must remain secret because it another election in 2011, and veteran and a mother who could endanger lives. “We price rises making it devised crossword puzzles for aren’t known as ZANE in impossible for pensioners The Daily Telegraph, and who Zimbabwe,” said Mr Benyon even to eat, he believes the also wrote scripts for wryly, “because Mr Mugabe Morecambe and Wise, Mr ❞ doesn’t believe there’s an need is greater than ever. Initially, Mr Benyon, 68 – Benyon joined the Army after Early on in his charitable emergency.” who has a long history of leaving school in 1963. But it career, he confided to Frank Between them, the doctor fighting “monstrous injustice” was not the career for him as, (Lord) Longford that he and teacher have been – agreed to raise money, and he admits, he lacks all sense of feared that he had mixed running ZANE within to help repatriate some of the direction. motives for helping the poor. Zimbabwe and extending its many Zimbabweans with Instead, he went into “We’ve all got mixed motives,” work. “I don’t want to British passports trapped in Parliament, focusing his Longford replied, “I suggest overplay the Scarlet the country for lack of funds. remarkable energies on you shut up and get on with Pimpernel stuff,” he said, but Visiting Zimbabwe in 2003 prisons and social service it.” it is Mr Benyon’s proudest with his wife Jane, a retired reform. In the 1990s he fought ZANE has proved his boast that, in the course of social worker specialising in a dogged battle on behalf of greatest challenge because of eight years, not one penny of care of the elderly, he began to those who lost their homes the scale of the problem and the money (some raised by see the extent of the problem. and money as a result of the the difficulties of operating in ZANE, some distributed on Meeting individuals such as Lloyds debacle. But he has a country where corruption behalf of other charities) has 9 gone astray. Through careful, but always legal, means every THE DAILY TELEGRAPH penny has reached those most SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 2011 in need. Over the years the charity has expanded its activities: “We didn’t just want to help ‘I would the blue-eyed.” It now also helps other groups within Zimbabwe, a country of eight million people where have died unemployment stands at 90 per cent. The introduction of the US currency last year has without encouraged economic stability, but it has resulted in prices rising as much as fivefold. Even food, let alone your help’ nursing homes, is now beyond many pensioners’ reach. In the country’s slums, there ZANE, a Telegraph is little medical or educational appeal charity, carries Margie could not pay for her stay in hospital or for her medicine provision. ZANE’s operations now include the provision of out life-saving work in drugs to those affected by Zimbabwe. Sally know, so she inspected my difference between food on HIV/Aids, a makeshift school, vehicle minutely: tyres, the table and going to bed and the Jump for Joy pro- Douglas describes a reflectors, indicators, licence hungry. gramme for correcting club typical day on the discs. She asked me where I A few doors away, I called at feet. The aim of the latter is to frontline had come from and where I Margie’s house. She is also a address this common problem was going and what my widow and for her, life before children’s bones set. ZANE (Zimbabwe A business was in the nearby without assistance from ZANE Surgery is rare in a country National Emergency) town. I showed her my red would be precarious. Margie that has seen an exodus of helps Zimbabweans, breakdown triangles when she has dangerously high doctors. black and white, who asked to see them, then the cholesterol levels and was in The charity continues to have been left destitute by green reflective vest, driver’s hospital in intensive care help 1,800 of the dispossessed the Mugabe regime. Here, licence and identity when I first met her five years who have one of ZANE’s team of document. Suddenly and ago. She couldn’t pay for her no family to rescue them. volunteers in the country without warning she got stay in hospital, or for the Tough people who have writes about her work bored and said dismissively ambulance or the medication worked hard all their lives, distributing money to “Proceed”, then walked away. she needed. “I’ll never be able they are not used to asking for pensioners who depend Half an hour later than to thank ZANE enough,” handouts even when they are on assistance for their expected, I knocked on Sue’s Margie has often said to me. starving and in physical pain. very survival. Her name, door. She looked older and “I would have died without “People move from old to and the names of the frailer than when I’d seen her you.” helpless very quickly,” Mr pensioners she looks a month before. “My lifeline,” Margie and her late husband Benyon observed, “because after, have been changed she said as she embraced me. never had children. She lost they can’t afford medical to ensure their safety and “I was getting worried you her savings and investments treatment.” to allow ZANE’s work to weren’t coming.” when the currency was Raising money is not easy. continue. I told her about the repeatedly devalued and now This year, Mr Benyon numerous roadblocks and the has nowhere else to turn for exhausted himself by walking hen the policeman policewoman determined to the medicines that keep her from Edinburgh to to stopped my car and find something amiss with my alive every month. generate funds for people indicated that I vehicle. Sue said she couldn’t In her bathroom and on the whose plight has touched him Wshould pull off the picture it, because she hadn’t counter tops in her kitchen, deeply. Among them is Helen, road, I wondered what had the means to travel out of Margie has an amazing an orphan who married in infringement I was going to be her home town for over five assortment of buckets, bowls 1939 and worked unremit- fined for. This was the fourth years. Retired from a lifetime and dishes filled with water. tingly for 40 years to create a roadblock I had gone through in the civil service, Sue’s “For the dry days,” she said, farm in the bush. Now a in the 90-minute journey to a pension is just $60 (£39) a following my gaze, and we widow of 87, with no children, small town south of the month. It doesn’t quite cover commiserated with each other she has lost her farm, but capital city of Harare. I was on her monthly medical costs about how we cope when the never complains. “I find her my own in the vehicle and on and leaves nothing for food, taps run dry for days at a time fortitude in the face of the loss my way to deliver critical rent or clothing. She lowers without warning. In her of everything she holds dear support to pensioners. her eyes as I give her the bedroom, Margie has a quite extraordinary. She is not Leaving my engine running means to buy food and when grubby old car battery which bitter. Each time I go she and with my hazard lights she looks up again they are she uses to power her lights gives me something that she flashing, it was a few minutes glistening with tears. Sue is a during the long, dark nights of has knitted. Sometimes it is before a policewoman finally widow whose children can’t Zimbabwe’s incessant power bootees for my grandchildren; sauntered casually over to my help her because they cuts. last time it was a blue and car. themselves lost everything When it was time to go, pink loo seat [cover].” “You are arrested,” she said, when their farm was taken Margie pressed a bag of There are thousands of such but from the tone of her voice over. tomatoes into my hand and people in need of ZANE’s I wasn’t sure if her words As I was getting ready to smiled as she warned they assistance, but funds are were a question or a leave, Sue handed me a little hadn’t been washed. “I wish it scarce so waiting lists are statement. envelope containing four was more,” she said, long. “The pain of having to “Why?” I asked. handmade handkerchiefs with demonstrating the amazing turn people away,” sighs Mr “I don’t know, why did they flowers embroidered in the spirit of people with nothing Benyon, “is more than our tell you to pull over?” corners: her way of thanking who still find something to staff can bear.” I shrugged and said I didn’t ZANE for making the give and who have mastered 10

Elena Tsaveni*, a THE DAILY TELEGRAPH PETA THORNYCROFT descendent of a SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2011 in Bulawayo great warrior leader, works with ZANE, in Offering hope to Zimbabwe’s most destitute Zimbabwe

s the great-great- cooked, is the country’s staple support Mugabe in any Until then, despite her age, granddaughter of one food. But after years of elections now.” she had lived an active life, of imperial Britain’s hyperinflation and misrule He continued: “I don’t know walking every day and A greatest African foes, that have consigned this once this British organisation who enjoying considerable Elena Tsaveni must see the prosperous nation to mass send money for the food for independence at the home. irony. impoverishment, it has almost us, but please thank them. We Being confined to a bed is Lobengula, her illustrious become a luxury for man. would die without it, so would difficult for a woman who has ancestor, spent the late 19th As one element of its work in those children over there.” seen so much. Her father, century fending off colonial Zimbabwe, ZANE provides Having one hot meal a day whose story she tells in her advances into his Matabele- maize meal and soya to the gives the children a future, book Chintali (“tall man” in land kingdom in what is now very old and the very young. and some hope — a precious the Chinyanja language), was western Zimbabwe. One of the beneficiaries of commodity in Zimbabwe. once speaker of the Legislative Ultimately he failed, his the feeding scheme is Others in Zimbabwe, Council in Zambia, or tribal warriors cut down by Thabani, a former teacher however, do not want to Northern Rhodesia as it was British Maxim guns. who lived in rural Matabele- consider what the next few known then. Knighted in But today Mrs Tsaveni land until 1985 when he was years, even months, might 1956, he arrived on the works with the British, or at forced to flee President bring. African coast at the age of 19 least with a British charity in Robert Mugabe’s brutal Lorna Webb is one of and walked across the bush the form of ZANE, set up in suppression of Matabele Zimbabwe’s white victims. for nine weeks to reach 2002 by Tom Benyon, the dissidents and their suspected She hasn’t been oppressed Nyasaland. In many ways, her former Tory MP, to help the sympathisers. politically or singled out for life has been just as ever-swelling ranks of It was the height of what violence. But, like countless adventurous. Born in then destitute Zimbabweans, black became known as the others in modern Zimbabwe, Northern Rhodesia, she and and white. Gukurahundi, and in nearby she is penniless. her sister had long and At another moment of great villages the dreaded, North A distinguished difficult journeys to school in crisis in her people’s history, Korean-trained Fifth Brigade Zimbabwean — her father was Southern Rhodesia and were it seems only right — as her was carrying out mass Sir Thomas Page, a one-time parted from their parents for ancestor did before her — to executions, forcing villagers to pioneering farmer — she lived a year at a time. rally to their need. dig their own graves before her life with characteristic Mrs Webb trained as a So, at 3am, Mrs Tsaveni is mowing them down with prudence. After her husband nursing sister in Southern up and cooking maize meal in machine gun fire. died, she sold the family home Rhodesia before spending the a council hall in Pelindaba, an For Thabani — whose best as a way of supporting herself early years of her working life overcrowded suburb of guess is that he is 69 — Mrs into old age. in the forests of eastern Bulawayo, the “City of Kings” Tsaveni’s sadza is, like for so Instead, she was reduced to Zimbabwe, where she that was once Lobengula’s many others, quite possibly penury as her savings were functioned more as a doctor capital. It is an early start but the difference between life wiped out after Mr Mugabe’s than a nurse, often having to she has little choice in the and death. “I would die policies of seizing white- perform operations when the matter; Zimbabwe’s daily without this food, which I owned farms contributed to missionary doctor was away. power cuts make a lie-in all collect every day of the week,” inflation so severe that prices She also nursed in but impossible. Soon the he said. “It is cooked. I have were doubling every day. Johannesburg, South Africa, corridors are thronged with no money for electricity even It is hardly surprising that for 15 years, and retired as a playing children who have when it is on. At weekends, it Mrs Webb is not relishing the deputy matron. come to the council hall with is a problem to get food. Often prospect of turning 100 later As she prepares to make her their grandparents, penniless I am very hungry on Monday.” this year. In fact, she just final journey, Mrs Webb has pensioners for whom Mrs Thabani does not believe wants to die. no family around her. ZANE Tsaveni is the only hope of a there is any immediate “I am 99 now and my body is fills that gap, its carers and hot meal. prospect for an improvement worn out,” she said, speaking volunteers providing attention The children are mostly in the lives of ordinary from her bed in the frail-care and companionship for a orphans, whose parents were Zimbabweans while the section of a Harare old age dying woman. carried off by the Aids present government is in home. “I have lived too long, In a clear voice, Mrs Webb epidemic that has swept power, making the role that and I want to move on to the reaches out her hand, Zimbabwe, where as many as ZANE plays in his life even Lord now.” For Mrs Webb, searching for the ZANE carer one in six of the adult more important. ZANE has been a source of next to her. “Thank you for population is infected with “We know what has precious comfort since she coming to see me,” she said. HIV. happened in Zimbabwe,” he was taken under its wing last Maize meal, known in said. “We know why we are June when she broke an arm *Name has been changed Zimbabwe as sadza when it is hungry. No one here will and a leg. for security reasons

Continued from page 9 her hands quivering. A widow for 15 years, Lynn only enough to buy a few the art of making a little go a Desperate for news of her lost all her savings in the loaves of bread and before very long way. little dog Suzie, who had been economic collapse. One day long, Lynn had no option but My last visit that day was to looked after by a friend for she had savings of millions of to sell her house. That money see Lynn in a small local almost a month, Lynn was Zimbabwean dollars, more also disappeared in hospital. About to be very emotional when I took than enough to support Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation discharged after almost three the physiotherapy bills from herself with, the next day they madness. weeks incapacitated with a the bedside cabinet. had been reduced to single For Lynn and hundreds like mysterious gastric problem, “I was hoping you’d offer to digits when 12 zeroes were her, life is only sustainable she was as weak as a lamb, do that,” she said, “there is no slashed from the currency. thanks to ZANE. her face sunken and gaunt, way I can pay them.” Life savings were suddenly 11

This final article from Marondera was due to appear in late January but was usurped by events in Egypt The Struggle of hen you see the thank you letters, written on scraps of Wpaper torn out of lined school exercise books, the Poorest it’s hard not to be moved. This coping in rural areas: politics food secure again; they see the school each carrying a five one came from Susan, a often gets in the way and empty stands at the Grain litre bottle of water. Without desperately poor but hard neglected, dilapidated roads Marketing Board depots, they that precious bottle of water working elderly woman whose make travelling very difficult. see the labels on all the food they may not attend school crop failed due to excessive It’s a different matter in the in the shops: ‘Made in South that day. rain. Villagers in the local urban, high-density areas Africa’ the stickers say. On a busy Saturday morning community are concerned where people’s lives and In amongst the cultivation the Library car park in the about Susan’s well being; her problems are out in the open are the fenced off yards of the high density suburb is husband is going blind and and easy to see. parastatals: the electricity crowded with people. 50 or the couple are in dire Roads littered with pot holes company, railways and more men and women stand circumstances. When Susan and gullies, muddy puddles municipality. Lying in their in lines waiting for their turn received our care package she everywhere and the tell tale car parks, under trees and – not to get a library book but wrote: green streams which indicate along fence lines is the end to reach the hand pump “Today I received your letter broken sewage pipes. On result of squander and mounted on a borehole in the at 4 o’clock. I opened it and every spare inch of ground mismanagement. Here are car park. Outside the library a gave it to Michael. We looked someone is trying to make a scores of vehicle wrecks: little boy, maybe six years old, at each other and we started living. A group of young boys company vehicles, trucks, squats over a muddy roadside smiling. In my mind I said: try to sell bald, treadless trailers, cars, an ambulance, puddle carefully filling an what is this in front of me? I second hand car tyres. A man dustbin truck and empty orange juice bottle with took the cardboard box and hangs a dozen pairs of cheap earthmover. Here is the water. we opened it and I said God, Chinese jeans trousers from evidence of a bankrupt A pre- teen girl walks with a God bless you. I have nothing the spikes on a barbed wire government: rusting heaps of little folded cloth pad on top to give you but I say to you: fence, just a few feet away scrap metal, no money for of her head – she will rest a God is the one who knows from a festering sodden heap spare parts or replacements. full, twenty litre bucket of about you.” of uncollected garbage. Flea People in the high density water on the pad and carry it The cardboard box markets are everywhere with suburbs pay little attention to home on her head. Despite contained a bag of dried beans everything from food and the squalor behind govern- her toil, the girl is not and a packet of salt, one bottle clothes to mock velvet lounge ment fences, they are too busy unhappy because she has a of cooking oil and a bar of suites and petrol generators trying to survive, to make a full stomach and is back in laundry soap. A bag of rice, for sale. Everything displayed living and they crowd on school. ZANE staff found her packet of tea leaves and a on rickety planks in stalls corners waiting for lifts. No mother in a bad way; alone, small jar of petroleum jelly covered with black plastic as government buses here HIV positive and unable to were squeezed in before the protection from the rain. anymore, now it is only take care of her children. box was sealed. Susan lives in Women sit all along the private minibuses that ply the Referred to an HIV clinic, she a remote, mountainous village roadsides with bowls, buckets high density suburbs; over- was started on anti retrovirals in eastern Zimbabwe. Getting and basins filled with produce crowded, making up their own and ZANE gave her a high the precious box of groceries for sale: tomatoes, mangoes, road rules and one sporting protein nutrient supplement. to her entailed a trusted bananas, wild fruits and even the legend: ‘In God we Trust,’ As her strength grew the friend travelling on a country wilder mushrooms. on the back windscreen. mother was given the means bus, a nurse at a remote clinic Unemployed men and There is an almost to start a vegetable garden keeping it safe until a women toil tirelessly on permanent water crisis in and has never looked back. travelling pastor was able to vegetable plots and maize high density areas. A decade ZANE changed the life of one take it to Susan. A small entry crops. Illegally and without of economic collapse with non small family; a drop in the in the ZANE diary reads: any environmental control, existent maintenance has ocean perhaps, but not to Groceries – Susan: US$ 20. people plant their crops on exacerbated an already them. There are others too: Three words to describe a life- the roadsides and verges, on rusted, leaking and child headed households, sick line given to a forgotten corners and along stream inadequate water pipeline people, orphans, single elderly couple with nowhere banks, under electricity system. For days and weeks at mothers and people whose else to turn. pylons and up alongside a time no water at all comes lives have been ravaged by Rural or urban, the need is railway tracks. Even the piles out of taps and everywhere political violence and as great as ever for poor, of uncollected garbage do not you look there are people economic collapse. Targeting disadvantaged and deter people in their carrying buckets, looking for one family at a time ZANE’s marginalised communities in desperate struggle to grow a water. Wheelbarrows are help has a ripple effect in both Zimbabwe two years after the meal or two, the dumped litter loaded with empty buckets high density suburbs and formation of a unity piled up and serving as followed by women and homes in a remote mountain government. It’s not always contours. No one quite children. In the early village. easy to see how people are believes that Zimbabwe is mornings children walk to

Zimbabwe is still at a critical stage. ZANE is an organisation well There are many vulnerable people who worthy of support . . . The are exposed. Were it not for ZANE I do need remains very great . . . not know how many people would have organisations like ZANE fill a survived. ZANE’s work is very serious gap in social provision. effective . . . I say to anyone who can Rt Hon Sir malcolm Riind qC mP afford to give, please do so as former Secretary of State for Foreign generously as you can. and Commonwealth Affairs Andrew Pocock CmG former UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe, 2006-9 12 “what others say . . .

ZANE does quite outstanding work on ZANE is an extraordinary charity behalf of vulnerable communities in set up by inspiration . . . I have Zimbabwe . . . The work ZANE does through been enormously impressed by its committed and inspirational team the vision, the hard work and the continues to provide a valuable lifeline . . . unquenchable spirit of everyone I It has been a privilege to see the skill and have met. care with which the organisation directs its the Rt Revd John Pritchard precious resources towards those in The Bishop of Oxford greatest need. H.e. mark Canning CmG Ambassador, British Embassy, Harare, Zimbabwe

ZANE is a wonderful charity. In Zimbabwe people (ZANE) is about service and are forgotten . . . it’s about love . . . what is ZANE does special is that ZANE forms marvellous work relationships with everyone with the money it it helps. raises. It’s important Rt Hon the Lord boateng of to support the work Akyem and Wembley and please do so. ZANE is really in touch former UK High Commissioner Lord mackay of with the people it assists to South Africa Clashfern kt . . . ZANE’s work is former Lord Chancellor wonderfully moving . . . John Humphrys Author, journalist, Help the people of Zimbabwe continue to get vital aid and support radio & TV presenter

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