31/12/2022 Zimbabwe
“If you ever come across anything suspicious like this item, please do not pick it up, contact your local law e enforcement agency for assistance”.
By Thomson Reuters Foundation
When Zimbabwean deminer Memory Mutepfa digs up a landmine, places it in a pit and blows it up using electronic detonators, she feels pride, not fear. Mutepfa, 31, belongs to a group of women 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. A veteran of Zimbabwe’s women deminers, who are employed by the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) humanitarian group, Mutepfa used to lead a team of 10 and she is passionate about the programme. “On a daily basis, we used electronic detonators to destroy the landmines without fear. We excelled in the landmines clearing industry as an all-female team just like our male counterparts,” Mutepfa said as she took a break from clearing mines in a tea-growing area near the border with Mozambique.
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