ON March 11, 2007 Sekai Holland was lying broken and bloody in a Harare police cell after being brutally tortured on the orders of the Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe. Last month, she shook the dictator’s hand, accepted his congratulations and sat down to share a snack. The long-time democracy activist and former Sydney resident has become Zimbabwe’s first Minister for National Healing, Reconciliation and National Integration under the fragile power-sharing agreement between Mr Mugabe and the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai.
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