It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras. I'm reading my first communication. In this batch, I read my first communication when I hear that Zarina has had an accident and it's saying she's got one fracture, she'll be fine, she'll be out of hospital in two days and I am sending a message back, I'm saying, "Are you guys being honest with me?
Or Cuba or somewhere, yes. But my point is that Ivan is there permanently in Lusaka. So I had a lot of difficulty extracting exactly how serious is the accident. I think that's not easy reading. It's not easy reading. But that's a small thing. There was one part on that, the UN paid for Zarina to go to London, right? They said they would pick up the expenses then. But you said there was this argument with Slovo. Was it Slovo? When she had the accident and when she was in Lusaka hospital at that stage it was not clear what's going to happen.
She had a broken rib and she was getting paralysed slowly and the doctors are saying send her to Harare, The question then arose, who pays? A trip to Harare, to me that shouldn't have been a debate. It was not clear and Slovo was saying, "No, the UN must pay. How does she attend to getting the UN to pay the ticket? Why didn't he just say, "Go along and we will sort it out and when the UN refunds you it will be refunded.
She won't wait. Now were you getting this by a different -? What I know is that at some point I learnt that she had been in hospital in Lusaka for seven days before being moved to Harare. Because it was Momo who told you that he had seen her on the tarmac being moved into the plane.
In a wheelchair. At some point I learnt that part of the problem was that she had been in hospital in Lusaka for seven days with no treatment except as if she has got a muscular pain. In the meantime this arm is completely snapped and the doctors and nurses are saying it's just a muscular tear. This side, if you look at her, she has up to now no shoulder left, and they are saying it's a muscular thing. So here's a woman with 18, 19 fractures, lying there and slowly becoming immobilised, unable to move even her neck, and it goes on like that for seven days until when she is finally moved to Harare she's got to be in a wheelchair and lying down because she can't even move her head.
