Mugabe, Sally, 1931-1992

LC control no.	no 93003836
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Mugabe, Sally, 1931-1992 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Hayfron, Sarah Francesca
Biography/History note	Individual was a political activist.
Associated country	Zimbabwe England
Birth date	1931-06-06
Death date	1992-01-27
Place of birth	Gold Coast
Place of death	Zimbabwe
Affiliation	ZANU Women's League Zimbabwe Women's Cooperative Zimbabwe Child Survival Movement
Profession or occupation	Anti-apartheid activists
Found in	Cde. Amai Sally Mugabe, 1992: t.p. (Cde. Amai Sally Mugabe, 6/6/31-1/27/92) p. 9 (Sally Francesca Mugabe) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 9, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Mugabe, Sally; Sarah Francesca Hayfron; political activist; born 06 June 1931 in the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana); charged with making a subversive statement attacking Britain for abandoning blacks in Rhodesia; received a two-year prison sentence, fifteen months of which were suspended (1963); moved to London in self-imposed exile (1967); earned a degree in home economics; lobbied on behalf of black Rhodesians; the British government was set to deport her due to the expiration of her visa (1970); was allowed to stay in Britain; spent some time in Sweden; the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) sponsored six country tours for her to speak about antiracism in the schools; her husband, Robert Mugabe, became the first black prime minister of Zimbabwe and Sally the first lady (1980); launched the Zimbabwe Women's Cooperative in the United Kingdom; secretary-general of the ZANU-PF Women's League (1989); won the Communicator of the Year Award from the Zimbabwe Institute of Public Relations (1989); founded the Zimbabwe Child Survival Movement; died 27 January 1992 in Zimbabwe)