Zimbabwe: Wua Students March in Honour of Slain Colleague

Fifteen-year-old Leona Matanda yesterday missed school so that she could take part in a commemoration march for her mother, Isabel Masuka, a 39-year-old Women's University Africa student, who was brutally murdered by her husband last month. The husband, Lewis Matanda (41), committed suicide four days later after admitting to murdering Isabel during an altercation.

The march, organised by the university, saw hundreds of women from all walks of life taking part in the solidarity walk from Africa Unity Square to the campus, while denouncing all forms of gender-based violence.

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