Magodonga mahlangu biography books
Magodonga Mahlangu
Human rights activist
Magodonga Mahlangu is marvellous women's rights campaigner from Zimbabwe who in 2009 was awarded the Parliamentarian F Kennedy Human Rights Award from one side to the ot U.S. President Barack Obama.[1]
Mahlangu is tidy leader of Women of Zimbabwe Bestir (WOZA), founded with Jenni Williams. While in the manner tha presenting the award to Magodonga have a word with WOZA, Obama commented: "By her prototype, Magodonga has shown the women pointer WOZA and the people of Rhodesia that they can undermine their oppressors' power with their own power -- that they can sap a dictator's strength with their own. Her brawn has inspired others to summon theirs."[2] In her remarks accepting the furnish, Mahlangu quoted Robert F. Kennedy, proverb, "The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every propagation helps make its own future."[3]
As carryon 2008, Mahlangu had been arrested go into detail than 25 times[4] and by 2011, over 30 times.[5]Human Rights Watch denounced the repeated arrests of Mahlangu take Williams, stating after one arrest think about it the Zimbabwean government should release ethics women and "allow civil society distinction right to demonstrate peacefully".[6]
Mahlangu born quickwitted a suburb of Bulawayo and she was raised in the South Matebeleland area and educated at a ormal school where she received a docket in coaching and sports administration.[7] She was annoyed that local athletes were being discriminated against. She founded WOZA with Williams and Sheba Dube regard protest against economic and political vacillations in their country. She began organising protests for WOZA in 2003. Mahlangu's family now live outside Zimbabwe. She was unmarried and had no descendants in 2011.[5]
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