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Tolerance of different beliefs, practices and people is as elusive as ever in Zimbabwe.

They say that a picture speaks a thousand words and the one I picked up on the roadside this morning certainly did. I'm not generally in the habit of picking up litter on public roads but this was different. It was the remains of a poster that had been torn off a street light pole. From the scraps of bright coloured paper left clinging to a number of other poles, it was obvious that a line of the same posters had all been torn down recently. I had travelled along this road just the day before and the posters hadn't been there then so this had only just happened. Picking up the remains of the crumpled poster lying in the grass and turning it over, I knew immediately that the political turmoil in Zimbabwe is still a long way from being over.

The top third of the poster was gone but that didn't matter to me. I knew who the woman on the poster was and that the missing words must have been her name: Amai Susan Tsvangiari.

In the characteristic black, red and white colours...