dame daphne sheldrick, who sadly died in april 2018.ss every month on the bbc news channel, or you can catch up on all of our films along with more than a thousand radio programmes in our online archive. just go to bbc.co.uk/witness. next, we go to zimbabwe. in 1983, where, after the war of independence, robert mugabe sent troops to matabeleland in the west of the country to put down opposition supporters. and a warning, this report contains distressing material. thousands of zimbabweans have been killed by the soldiers of mr mugabe's fifth brigade. the gukurahundi, the whirlwind. well done. robert mugabe, he was a power—monger. they were taking people, slaughtering them all over. my family was shot by the army, with my grandfather and his two sons. did they question them before they shot them? no. they just walked into the village and shot them? yes. innocent people, they were being killed by the mugabe regime. mugabe's zanu party draws most of its support from the majority shona tribe. in matabeleland, support for nkomo's zapu comes f