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The grip of fear

Military reign of terror as Zimbabwe prepares for elections From Fred Bridgland in Johannesburg

Precious Zhove clutched her 18-month-old daughter tightly as she recounted the day when soldiers and so-called war veterans who fought in Zimbabwe's war of liberation from white minority rule descended on her homestead, looking for her husband Joab Gumbo.