Betty Jiri, a forgotten disability rights activist

Robin Muchetu, Health and Gender Editor

HERS is a tale that drips raw with the true meaning of the word irony. How else can one describe, let alone believe that the widow of the country’s revered disability champion and National Hero — Jairos Jiri — Mrs Betty Jiri is living far from the opulence and comfort that the couple’s name should be associated with.

She has somehow been forgotten and maybe like many, whose lives shaped society but are seldom talked about, she will be remembered the day she departs earth.