Zimbabwe's ambassador to Australia, Jacqueline Zwambila, says sordid attacks by the Mugabe regime prompted her to seek asylum from 'the country I love'
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Zimbabwe's
ambassador to Australia,
Jacqueline Zwambila, has revealed she sought asylum after a "sustained
smear campaign" in which President Robert Mugabe's regime launched
sordid personal attacks on his opponents serving abroad.
Ms Zwambila, an active member of the opposition Movement for Democratic
Change, detailed a series of sordid attacks on her since she took up the
post as ambassador in 2010.
She told The Telegraph she has been accused of stripping to her
underwear in front of staff, trying to seduce a cleaner at the embassy and
seeking to plan an uprising with former soldiers of the Rhodesian army, whom
she met during a war memorial day in Australia.
"I fear for my safety and I do not know what they will do to me if I go
back," she said.
"I can never go back as long as this government is there. It is not a
light statement. I can never go visit my father's grave. I cannot go back to
the country I love."
Ms Zwambila, 56, a mother of three, was one of several MDC figures appointed as ambassadors during a power sharing deal between Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC leader, and Mr Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since it gained independence from Britain in 1980.
The power sharing began after a disputed election in 2008 and ended after Mr Mugabe, the Zanu PF leader, won a disputed election earlier this year.
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Ms Zwambila, 56, a mother of three, was one of several MDC figures appointed as ambassadors during a power sharing deal between Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC leader, and Mr Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since it gained independence from Britain in 1980.
The power sharing began after a disputed election in 2008 and ended after Mr Mugabe, the Zanu PF leader, won a disputed election earlier this year.
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