Sarah Francesca (Hayfron) Mugabe-She was the first wife of Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe and the First Lady of Zimbabwe from 1987 until her death in 1992. She was popularly known as Amai (Mother) in Zimbabwe. The death of Sally is seen by some[who?] to be around the time that President Robert Mugabe began indurating his policy in Zimbabwe. Born in 1931 in the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), then a British colony, Sally and her twin sister, Esther, were raised in a political family, which was part of the growing nationalist politics in the colonial Gold Coast. She went to Achimota Secondary School, and after a brief time as a as a street prostitute, was rescued by the Sisters of Mercy. Under their tutalage she went on to university to study before qualifying as a teacher. Sally Hayfron was a trained teacher who asserted her position as an independent political activist and campaigner. She demonstrated this activism as early as 1962 when she was active in mobilizing African women to challenge Ian Smith's Rhodesian constitution which resulted in her being charged with sedition and sentenced to five years imprisonment, part of which was suspended. She met her future husband, Robert Mugabe, at Takoradi Teacher Training College where they were both teaching. Hayfron married Robert Mugabe in April 1961 in Salisbury. In 1967, Sally went into exile in London, and resided in Ealing Broadway, West London; her stay in Britain was financed, at least in part, by the British Ariel Foundation. She spent the next eight years agitating and campaigning for the release of political detainees in Rhodesia, including her husband who had been arrested in 1964 and was to remain incarcerated for ten years. Their only son, Nhamodzenyika, who was born in 1963 during this period of detention and imprisonment, would succumb to a severe attack of malaria and die in Ghana in 1966. Her father also died in 1970. The British Home Office attempted to deport her, but after her husband petitioned the British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, she was given British residency. Her case for residency was supported by two British Government ministers in particular: Maurice Foley, M.P., from the Labour Party, and Lord Lothian, from the Tory Party. Mugabe was prevented from attending the burial of his son and Sally was left to singly bear the physical and emotional burden of the loss. With the release of Mugabe from prison in 1975 and his subsequent escape to Mozambique with Edgar Tekere his fellow revolutionary and then best friend to kick start the war. Sally Mugabe was able to re-join her husband in Maputo. Here, she found herself challenged to a new role of a mother figure to thousands of Zimbabwean refugees and revolutionaries who had fled from Rhodesian governmental oppression. Her efforts in this role earned her the popular title Amai (Mother). In 1978 she was elected ZANU-PF Deputy Secretary for the Women's League. In 1980 she had to make a quick adjustment to a new and national role of the wife of Zimbabwe's first black Prime Minister. She officially became the First Lady of Zimbabwe in 1987 when her husband became the 2nd President of Zimbabwe. She was elected Secretary General of the ZANU-PF Women's League at the Party's Congress of 1989. She also founded the Zimbabwe Child Survival Movement. Sally Mugabe launched the Zimbabwe Women's Cooperative in the U.K. in 1986 and supported Akina Mama wa Africa, a London-based African women's organization focusing on development and women's issues in Africa and the United Kingdom. Sally died on 27 January 1992 from kidney failure. Upon her death she was interred at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, Zimbabwe. In 2002, to mark the 10th anniversary of her death, Zimbabwe issued a set of four postage stamps, of a common design, using two different photographs, each photograph appearing on two of the denominations. She is remembered fondly with love and affection, as she is still considered the founding mother of the nation of Zimbabwe.
Her obituary- Sally Mugabe, 60; wife of Zimbabwe's president:- Wednesday, January 29, 1992
Sally Mugabe, wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, died in a hospital Monday after a long kidney illness, the government said. She was 60.
The government declared Mrs. Mugabe, known as ``amai'' or mother of the nation, a national hero. She became the first woman to receive the honor. Flags flew at half-staff, state radio canceled regular programs to broadcast only gospel music and five days' national mourning was declared.
Foreign Minister Nathan Shamuyarira announced Mrs. Mugabe's funeral would be held Saturday at Heroes' Acre, a shrine to the 27,000 Zimbabweans killed in the 7-year independence war. About 20 people have been buried there since Mugabe led Zimbabwe to independence in 1980.
President Mugabe, who married his Ghanaian-born wife in 1961, was expected to cancel scheduled visits to the United States and Britain to attend her funeral, officials said.
He planned to attend a UN Security Council meeting in New York, and hold talks in London with British Prime Minister John Major on Zimbabwe's sagging economy.
Mrs. Mugabe, a former teacher, had been treated for two years for kidney failure.
Mrs. Mugabe, who met the president when he was teaching in Ghana in the 1950s, was often arrested by colonial police in what was previously called Southern Rhodesia for campaigning with her husband against white-minority rule.
She spent six weeks in prison in 1961 for demonstrating against a proposed constitution that favored the whites.
Mrs. Mugabe gave birth in 1963 to their only child, Nhanodzenyika, which means ``our country has problems'' in the local Shona language.
But the boy died of cerebral malaria three years later while Mugabe was serving 10 years as a political detainee. Authorities refused him permission to attend the funeral.
Sarah Francesca (Hayfron) Mugabe-She was the first wife of Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe and the First Lady of Zimbabwe from 1987 until her death in 1992. She was popularly known as Amai (Mother) in Zimbabwe. The death of Sally is seen by some[who?] to be around the time that President Robert Mugabe began indurating his policy in Zimbabwe. Born in 1931 in the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), then a British colony, Sally and her twin sister, Esther, were raised in a political family, which was part of the growing nationalist politics in the colonial Gold Coast. She went to Achimota Secondary School, and after a brief time as a as a street prostitute, was rescued by the Sisters of Mercy. Under their tutalage she went on to university to study before qualifying as a teacher. Sally Hayfron was a trained teacher who asserted her position as an independent political activist and campaigner. She demonstrated this activism as early as 1962 when she was active in mobilizing African women to challenge Ian Smith's Rhodesian constitution which resulted in her being charged with sedition and sentenced to five years imprisonment, part of which was suspended. She met her future husband, Robert Mugabe, at Takoradi Teacher Training College where they were both teaching. Hayfron married Robert Mugabe in April 1961 in Salisbury. In 1967, Sally went into exile in London, and resided in Ealing Broadway, West London; her stay in Britain was financed, at least in part, by the British Ariel Foundation. She spent the next eight years agitating and campaigning for the release of political detainees in Rhodesia, including her husband who had been arrested in 1964 and was to remain incarcerated for ten years. Their only son, Nhamodzenyika, who was born in 1963 during this period of detention and imprisonment, would succumb to a severe attack of malaria and die in Ghana in 1966. Her father also died in 1970. The British Home Office attempted to deport her, but after her husband petitioned the British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, she was given British residency. Her case for residency was supported by two British Government ministers in particular: Maurice Foley, M.P., from the Labour Party, and Lord Lothian, from the Tory Party. Mugabe was prevented from attending the burial of his son and Sally was left to singly bear the physical and emotional burden of the loss. With the release of Mugabe from prison in 1975 and his subsequent escape to Mozambique with Edgar Tekere his fellow revolutionary and then best friend to kick start the war. Sally Mugabe was able to re-join her husband in Maputo. Here, she found herself challenged to a new role of a mother figure to thousands of Zimbabwean refugees and revolutionaries who had fled from Rhodesian governmental oppression. Her efforts in this role earned her the popular title Amai (Mother). In 1978 she was elected ZANU-PF Deputy Secretary for the Women's League. In 1980 she had to make a quick adjustment to a new and national role of the wife of Zimbabwe's first black Prime Minister. She officially became the First Lady of Zimbabwe in 1987 when her husband became the 2nd President of Zimbabwe. She was elected Secretary General of the ZANU-PF Women's League at the Party's Congress of 1989. She also founded the Zimbabwe Child Survival Movement. Sally Mugabe launched the Zimbabwe Women's Cooperative in the U.K. in 1986 and supported Akina Mama wa Africa, a London-based African women's organization focusing on development and women's issues in Africa and the United Kingdom. Sally died on 27 January 1992 from kidney failure. Upon her death she was interred at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, Zimbabwe. In 2002, to mark the 10th anniversary of her death, Zimbabwe issued a set of four postage stamps, of a common design, using two different photographs, each photograph appearing on two of the denominations. She is remembered fondly with love and affection, as she is still considered the founding mother of the nation of Zimbabwe.
Her obituary- Sally Mugabe, 60; wife of Zimbabwe's president:- Wednesday, January 29, 1992
Sally Mugabe, wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, died in a hospital Monday after a long kidney illness, the government said. She was 60.
The government declared Mrs. Mugabe, known as ``amai'' or mother of the nation, a national hero. She became the first woman to receive the honor. Flags flew at half-staff, state radio canceled regular programs to broadcast only gospel music and five days' national mourning was declared.
Foreign Minister Nathan Shamuyarira announced Mrs. Mugabe's funeral would be held Saturday at Heroes' Acre, a shrine to the 27,000 Zimbabweans killed in the 7-year independence war. About 20 people have been buried there since Mugabe led Zimbabwe to independence in 1980.
President Mugabe, who married his Ghanaian-born wife in 1961, was expected to cancel scheduled visits to the United States and Britain to attend her funeral, officials said.
He planned to attend a UN Security Council meeting in New York, and hold talks in London with British Prime Minister John Major on Zimbabwe's sagging economy.
Mrs. Mugabe, a former teacher, had been treated for two years for kidney failure.
Mrs. Mugabe, who met the president when he was teaching in Ghana in the 1950s, was often arrested by colonial police in what was previously called Southern Rhodesia for campaigning with her husband against white-minority rule.
She spent six weeks in prison in 1961 for demonstrating against a proposed constitution that favored the whites.
Mrs. Mugabe gave birth in 1963 to their only child, Nhanodzenyika, which means ``our country has problems'' in the local Shona language.
But the boy died of cerebral malaria three years later while Mugabe was serving 10 years as a political detainee. Authorities refused him permission to attend the funeral.
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