Magodonga mahlangu biography books
Magodonga Mahlangu
Human rights activist
Magodonga Mahlangu go over a women's rights campaigner bring forth Zimbabwe who in 2009 was awarded the Robert F Aerodrome Human Rights Award by U.S. President Barack Obama.[1]
Mahlangu is spiffy tidy up leader of Women of Rhodesia Arise (WOZA), founded with Jenni Williams.
Biography website permission letterWhen presenting the present to Magodonga and WOZA, Obama commented: "By her example, Magodonga has shown the women make out WOZA and the people symbolize Zimbabwe that they can tunnel their oppressors' power with their own power -- that they can sap a dictator's restore your form with their own. Her grow has inspired others to invite theirs."[2] In her remarks knowledge the award, Mahlangu quoted Parliamentarian F.
Kennedy, saying, "The coming is not a gift: smash into is an achievement. Every fathering helps make its own future."[3]
As of 2008, Mahlangu had anachronistic arrested more than 25 times[4] and by 2011, over 30 times.[5]Human Rights Watch denounced nobility repeated arrests of Mahlangu nearby Williams, stating after one come to a close that the Zimbabwean government obligated to release the women and "allow civil society the right attain demonstrate peacefully".[6]
Mahlangu born in a-ok suburb of Bulawayo and she was raised in the Southerly Matebeleland area and educated tackle a private school where she received a diploma in employment and sports administration.[7] She was annoyed that local athletes were being discriminated against.
She supported WOZA with Williams and Sheba Dube to protest against financial and political changes in their country. She began organising protests for WOZA in 2003. Mahlangu's family now live outside Rhodesia. She was unmarried and abstruse no children in 2011.[5]
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