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A group of women is working to clear mines in eastern Zimbabwe, where the country’s former British colonial rulers laid millions of anti-personnel landmines during the 1970s Liberation War.

[File Image] : A stacker unloads iron ore onto a pile at a mine

A veteran of Zimbabwe’s women deminers, who are employed by the Norwegian People’s Aid humanitarian group, Mutepfa used to lead a team of 10 and she is passionate about the programme. About 1 500 people have been injured or killed by landmines since independence, according to the US Embassy in the capital, Harare.

 

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A group of women are working, not is. And you call yourselves journalists with degrees in whatever journos have degrees in.

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