My mother, Wendy Friedman, who has died aged 90, campaigned against repressive regimes in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Wendy supported various opposition parties against Ian Smith’s Rhodesian Front, mainly the multiracial Centre party. In 1966, she stood outside parliament in a three-woman demonstration (with her mother and sister-in-law) with a homemade placard demanding an end to press censorship. Thirty years later, she demonstrated against the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front regime on the same issue

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