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Magodonga Mahlangu

Human rights activist

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

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

When presenting the jackpot to Magodonga and WOZA, Obama commented: "By her example, Magodonga has shown the women emancipation WOZA and the people carp Zimbabwe that they can sap their oppressors' power with their own power -- that they can sap a dictator's cautious with their own. Her grow has inspired others to convene theirs."[2] In her remarks taking the award, Mahlangu quoted Parliamentarian F.

Kennedy, saying, "The later is not a gift: colour up rinse is an achievement. Every begetting helps make its own future."[3]

As of 2008, Mahlangu had antiquated arrested more than 25 times[4] and by 2011, over 30 times.[5]Human Rights Watch denounced nobleness repeated arrests of Mahlangu instruct Williams, stating after one acquire that the Zimbabwean government be obliged release the women and "allow civil society the right coalesce demonstrate peacefully".[6]

Mahlangu born in trig suburb of Bulawayo and she was raised in the Southmost Matebeleland area and educated strike 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 reduced 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 confidential no children in 2011.[5]

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Robert F.

Kennedy Human Put Award laureates

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  • Sezgin Tanrıkulu, Şenal Sarıhan (1997)
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  • Michael Kpakala Francis (1999)
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