Job sikhala, in a location that we have agreed not to reveal, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, steve, for your invitation to this important interview. Well, its important to have you on this show. You emerged from more than a year and a half of pre trial detention in zimbabwe earlier this year. We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Health Care while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And also they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i
Job sikhala, in a location that we have agreed not to reveal, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, steve, for your invitation to this important interview. Well, its important to have you on this show. You emerged from more than a year and a half of pre trial detention in zimbabwe earlier this year. We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Health Care while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And also they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i
We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Health Care while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And also they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i was not shackled. However, i dont want to continuously lament on this because there are several other zimbabweans who have gone through worse treatment by the same regime that has been there since 1980, others who went as far as losing their lives, when they were in a democratic, in the democratic strug
to insulate nato from a possible donald trump presidency. let s take a listen. we can see there the ministers gathering, waiting to get the session under way at the moment. we are expecting, you can see yun stoltenberg there, to address the foreign ministers very shortly, and when that happens, we will take you back to brussels for that moment. israel is under increasing international pressure after seven aid workers including three uk citizens were killed in an israeli air strike on gaza. president biden has said he is outraged and heartbroken by the deaths. the uk foreign secretary david cameron said it s a dreadful event and he paid tribute to those killed, caling them brave humanitarian workers . world central kitchen released these pictures of the seven aid workers killed when a convoy carrying staff from the charity was hit on monday. three british men, john chapman, james henderson and james kirby, were among them. they were working as security advisers. israel sa
There may be uncertainty in zimbabwe, but across the border in south africa, theres a Thriving Community of young entrepreneurs. Well talk to the woman behind the incubator looking to harness all that potential. We want your views on the da vinci frenzy, was it worth it . What you make of the record breaking da vinci auction. We start in zimbabwe. President mugabe remains under house arrest after what the African Union says seems like a coup, something denied by the countrys military. The economy is a huge source of unrest in zimbabwe. Its currency was scrapped in 2009 after hyperinflation reached several billion percent it was replaced with foreign currencies, today its mostly the us dollar. But that hasnt helped ordinary people. Zimbabwes official inflation rate was 2. 24 in october. But some analysts who track the cost of consumer goods in zimbabwe think theyre rising at over 65 a year. Thats because of a shortage of dollars needed to pay for imported goods. In fact, economist steve