Zimbabwe tobacco farmer offers lifeline to survivors of gender violence
NYASHA CHINGONO AS the sweltering morning sun beat down on them, about half a dozen young Zimbabwean women stacked green tobacco leaves into sheaves while another group, some with babies on their backs, loaded the harvested crop onto a tractor. In a largely male-dominated sector, Michelle Gwatimba, 36, who runs this small farm 200 km (124 miles) north of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, is not only blazing a trail for women but also provides a livelihood for those who survived violence. "We realized in the settlements around the farm, where we get most of our staff, there was a lot of…