Some of you might appreciate this bittersweet 
tribute paid to breastfeeding, received in my 
Zimbabwe News alert today.  The background is 
that the new Prime Minister, who has already 
survived four assassination attempts and 
imprisonment for trumped-up treason charges 
(necessitating relatives to bring food to the 
prison, or inmates will literally starve) was 
involved in a car accident last Friday, just days 
after being sworn in to a fragile Unity 
Government.  His wife of 31 years was tragically 
killed in the accident.  The nation mourns.  In 
his tribute to a much-beloved lady, whom he 
describes as 'the mother of the nation', a 
prominent politician and close ally of the new PM 
had this to say:  "[Mr Tsvangirai's] only pillar 
of strength has been his wife, Susan, who 
provided the food, the comfort and attention 
throughout his treason trial… and assassination 
attempt ......Throughout his stay in detention in 
prisons, she is the one who provided the food 
.....She was the mother to our struggle, who 
mothered and breastfed that struggle. She was 
there when we were beaten up, assaulted."

If you can forgive this rather political post to 
LACTNET, I thought you might appreciate, as I do, 
that the supreme compliment this loyal colleague 
could pay was that Susan "mothered and breastfed" 
a political struggle.  His words illustrate the 
esteem which is accorded to both mothering and 
breastfeeding, and consequently to the lady herself.  Sweet, huh?

Pamela Morrison IBCLC
Rustington, England (formerly Harare, Zimbabwe)


    

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