B r i t a i n Z i m b a b w e S o c i e t y
OF Report Section 6
APPENDIX I – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON SPEAKERS
Dr Stephen Munjanja is a consultant obstetrician who has worked at several government hospitals in Zimbabwe – he is currently based at Harare Hospital and is also an honorary lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe. He has written widely on the subject of maternal health and has just completed a book entitled Reproductive Health in Young People. Educated at schools in Zimbabwe, he graduated from the (then) University of Rhodesia in 1974 and worked at Mpilo, Lupane and Rusape hospitals until 1979, when he undertook specialist training in obstetrics at Queen Mother’s Hospital, Yorkhill, Glasgow. He returned to Zimbabwe in 1982 and has worked in his home country ever since. Dr Munjanja is a member of the WHO Task Force on Reproductive Health for sub-Saharan Africa.
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Raymond Majongwe is a human rights activist and the secretary-general of the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe – which champions the political, social and economic well-being of Zimbabwean teachers, and raises members’ awareness of their collective and individual rights. Raymond is also a general council member of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU).Educated at the University of Zimbabwe, where he was president of the Students’ Union in 1992-3, Raymond Majongwe graduated with a degree in history and economic history and worked for eight years as a teacher. He took up his present post six years ago. Raymond Majongwe has frequently come into conflict with the authorities in Zimbabwe, having had his passport temporarily withdrawn, and suffered both arrest and torture.
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Thabitha Khumalo was elected third vice president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in May this year. She has recently visited Britain as part of the Dignity: Period! campaign. This, together with ACTSA, the British trade union Amicus and other UK trade unions, helps Zimbabwean women obtain sanitary products, which are currently too expensive for any but the very rich to afford. A graduate of Njube Secondary School and, later, Northlea High School, Bulawayo, Thabitha is a programme officer for CASEP (Civic Alliance for Social and Economic Progress) – an NGO that aims to educate the grassroots on their social, economic and political rights. She lives in Bulawayo.
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Lela Kogbara was an active member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement for many years, and was secretary of the Southwark local group. She is now chair of Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA), the successor body to the movement, which campaigns in the UK for peace, democracy and development in Southern Africa. Lela is a qualified accountant with a first degree in zoology, who works for the London Borough of Islington and is a Governor of City and Islington College. Her professional experience covers finance, human resources, estates, contracts, information technology, research and statistics, ethnic minority achievement, media relations and communications.
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Nicholas Mkaronda is co-ordinator of the Crisis Coalition of Zimbabwe, based in South Africa. Nicholas is an ordained Anglican priest and graduate of the University of Zimbabwe, who has worked as a high school teacher, university lecturer in drama, director of the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland Lay Training, Relief and Information Centre and programme associate of the Zimbabwe National Pastors Conference. He has worked with community theatre groups in Zimbabwe in the fields of HIV, human rights, and democracy and has compiled a book on the crisis in Zimbabwe from the church perspective: Witness in a Time of Crisis. He has worked among people displaced as a result of the land reform programmes and coordinated the response of pastors in Zimbabwe to Operation Murambatsvina. He is married, with two children.
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Forward Maisokwadzo is a journalist. He is chair of the Association of Zimbabwe Journalists in UK and co-coordinator of the Exiled Journalists Network (EJN). Forward’s journalistic career includes being a reporter for the Zimbabwe Independent, freelancer and stringer for the South African Sunday Times, The Sunday Times (UK) and the Guardian Society Section. He holds an MA in international journalism from City University, a diploma in Journalism (Newspapers), a diploma in public relations and a diploma in library and information science (all from Harare Polytechnic) and has also received certificates of business and financial reporting from Reuters, World Bank and the Institute for Advancement of Journalists, South Africa. He is currently undertaking a PhD study in media and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe.
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Shane Lunga is currently chair of Zimbabwe Futures, a voluntary organization of exiled Zimbabweans which aims ‘to build up an unstoppable momentum behind planning for Zimbabwe’s future reconstruction’. In March 2006, he won an award from the Sheila McKenchnie Foundation, which recognizes the potential of up-and-coming campaigners. He has been involved in a wide range of campaigns to do with the situation in Zimbabwe – doing everything from collecting petitions to engaging with decision-makers on reconstruction issues. Shane works as a civil servant scientist in Hampshire and recipient of the TTCP Award in recognition of contribution to international collaborative research in April 06. He holds a B.Sc. (Computer Science and Electronics) and MSc in Optical Data Recording.
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Jeremy Dear is general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, first elected in 2001. Prior to becoming General Secretary Jeremy served the union as president, newspapers organizer and as a workplace representative. As a journalist Jeremy worked in local newspapers, magazines and was for three years a regional editor of The Big Issue. Jeremy sits on the TUC General Council, is chair of Justice for Colombia and Hands off Venezuela and works closely with the International Federation of Journalists and media freedom NGOs around the world to promote free expression.
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