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Upenyu Makoni-Muchemwa

Upenyu Makoni-Muchemwa is a journalist and activist with Kubatana, an activist community in Zimbabwe.

  • Three Billboards at a Zimbabwe bus terminal asking: "Abducted at the barber. Still no arrests. How come ED [President Mnangagwa]?" Credit: Baynham Goredema.
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    March 9, 2018
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    Mugabe may have gone, but the young activist’s family is still picking up the pieces after his disappearance and are still demanding answers. On a sunny ...
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