Fighter chickens out

Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Australia, Jacqueline Zwambila, who said she was a fighter is seeking asylum in Australia because she fears for her safety if she returns to Zimbabwe. “I don’t feel safe about returning to Zimbabwe at all,” she said four days before she was expected to return. Zwambila was embroiled in a diplomatic spat in 2010 after The Herald reported that she had stripped naked during a fit of rage in front of staff in Canberra. The report was proven to be false during a defamation case which finally concluded in the High Court this month. Zvambila said she knew that her career was over when Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front “stole” the 31 July elections. She was also afraid to return because a Zimbabwean court had found that she owed a tradesman who worked on the house US$2 700. She denied owing the money and feared that her $150 000 house might be auctioned to pay the bill.

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