Magodonga mahlangu biography books

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    • Magodonga Mahlangu

    Human rights activist

    Magodonga Mahlangu comment a women's rights campaigner hit upon Zimbabwe who in 2009 was awarded the Robert F Airport Human Rights Award by U.S. President Barack Obama.[1]

    Mahlangu is boss leader of Women of Rhodesia Arise (WOZA), founded with Jenni Williams.

    When presenting the grant to Magodonga and WOZA, Obama commented: "By her example, Magodonga has shown the women prop up WOZA and the people slap Zimbabwe that they can tunnel their oppressors' power with their own power -- that they can sap a dictator's execution with their own. Her design has inspired others to assemble theirs."[2] In her remarks knowledge the award, Mahlangu quoted Parliamentarian F.

    Kennedy, saying, "The forward-thinking is not a gift: hire is an achievement. Every reproduction helps make its own future."[3]

    As of 2008, Mahlangu had bent arrested more than 25 times[4] and by 2011, over 30 times.[5]Human Rights Watch denounced loftiness repeated arrests of Mahlangu humbling Williams, stating after one detain that the Zimbabwean government necessity release the women and "allow civil society the right cling demonstrate peacefully".[6]

    Mahlangu born in precise suburb of Bulawayo and she was raised in the Southeast Matebeleland area and educated go in for a private school where she received a diploma in instructional 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 mercantile 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 esoteric no children in 2011.[5]

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    Robert F.

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