Sally Hayfron

Sally (Sarah ) Francesca Hayfron ( born June 6, 1931 in Ghana, † 27 January 1992 in Harare ), married Mugabe was a politician and from 1961 until her death, the first wife of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe.

Life and career

In 1958, she met Robert Mugabe know who taught at a college in Ghana as well as they. She married him in April 1961 in Salisbury. In 1962, she became politically active when she mobilized the Rhodesian women against the regime of Ian Smith which, although aimed at the independence of the country, but wanted to maintain the supremacy of the white minority. She was then sentenced to five years in prison, of which it was passed part.

In 1967, she went into exile in London, from where they fought for the release of political prisoners in Rhodesia, including for her husband, who was arrested in 1964 and spent 10 years in prison. After his release in 1975, and his flight to Mozambique they followed him to Maputo, where she took special care of the Rhodesian refugees.

In 1978, she was deputy party secretary of the Women's League of the ZANU -PF. After the end of the colonial government and the election of Mugabe as president in 1980, she was the "first lady" of Zimbabwe. In 1989 she was elected to the Congress of the ZANU -PF to the first party secretary of the Women's League.

She founded the Zimbabwe Child Survival Movement. In addition, she was president of the lepers Society of Zimbabwe ( Leper Society of Zimbabwe).

Want to Sally's lifetime married Robert Mugabe his secretary Amai Grace born Marufu, later Goreraza (* 1965) in a traditional tribal ceremony for African custom as a second wife (Junior Wife).

Sally Hayfron died on 27 January 1992 at the age of 60 from kidney failure. On the occasion of her 10th death anniversary was published in 2002 in Zimbabwe, a series of stamps with her image.