Thursday 8 December 2011

Zimbabwe's "Hanging Tree" falls, revives legends (AP)

Zimbabwe's famed colonial-era 'Hanging Tree' crashed into the street after being struck by a workers truck in Harare, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. Mbuya Nehanda and other icons of the first uprising against white settlers were said to have been hanged from the tree in 1898. Witnesses said the 200-year-old Msasa tree, declared a historic site and national monument, fell Wednesday and some workers fled, believing it a sacred omen of 'bad things to come.' Crowds gathered at the felled tree Thursday to take pieces of it and a n'anga, known in the West as a witchdoctor, performed rites over the trunk and branches. The indigenous African tree, or brachystegia speciformis, was commemorated on a Zimbabwe postage stamp in 1996 and political rallies have often been held there. (AP Photo)AP - HARARE, Zimbabwe — The felling of Zimbabwe's famed colonial-era "Hanging Tree" is reviving legends and superstitions and has many believing it signals a new era for this troubled southern African nation, whose hardline 87-year-old president is in the winter of his long rule.



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