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Spotlight - Autumn 2003
edited by Maggie Currey
Eileen Haddon 1921-2003
Eileen Haddon, writer and campaigner, has died at her home in Harare.
She and her husband, Michael, a mining expert, were South Africans
who moved to Southern Rhodesia after the Second World War. They
were well known as campaigners for racial justice and for helping
in the defence of detainees and Cold Comfort Farm, their smallholding
outside Harare, became the base for a multi-racial co-operative.
Eileen worked on the anti-Smith Central African Examiner, becoming
its editor in the 1960s.
Forced by the Smith regime in 1969 to leave their homes and jobs,
the Haddons lived most of their exiled years up to 1981 in Lusaka.
Eileen ran the University's publications office out of the former
Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, while Michael, who died in 1995, became
small mines adviser to the government. They kept in touch with Zambians
and Zimbabweans from all walks of life and were an inspiration to
many. Eileen Haddon is survived by her sons, Brian and Timothy.
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Correspondence and Membership queries:
Jo Herkes
Honorary
Secretary
Zambia Society and Trust
4, Ashurst Way, East Preston, Littlehampton BN16 1AG
Tel: 01903 783 765
Fax: 01903 785 977
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