A Zimbabwean pro-democracy activist who described surviving gunshots and a year jailed as a political prisoner has said gaining a scholarship for refugees at a UK university gave him “hope in a hopeless place”.
Makomborero Haruzivishe said he was an “ordinary” 19-year-old student when he joined the University of Zimbabwe to study psychology in 2011, but his activism over education rights and corruption led to him being arrested 37 times, banned from university, tortured, imprisoned and nearly killed.
