SheMurenga: The Zimbabwean Women's Movement 1995-2000

Appendix 2: Women Conversants

91 APPENDIX 2 Women Conversants Maia Chenaux-Repond: Then: Both Public sector and NGO experience. Advocate for women’s land rights. Founder member of the Women and Land Lobby Group. Co-ordinator of the working group on gender politics. Consultant in the area of gender and development with Rudecon Zimbabwe. Hope Chigudu: Then: Senior researcher in the Ministry of Women’s Affairs in the early 1980s. Founder and Board member of the Zimbabwean Women’s Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN). Consultant particularly within the SADC region. Now: Renowned gender equality activist, consultant, and organisational development expert and strategist, she has supported a great many African and international justice groups, working in most African countries from Ghana to South Africa and serving on the boards of the Global Fund for Women and Urgent Action and on the working committee of the African Feminist Forum. Sekai Holland: Then: Active in the struggle for liberation from the late 1960s. Chair of the Association of African Women’s Clubs. MDC candidate for Mberengwa East. Head of the MDC’s international desk. Now: Sekai Holland is currently the Zimbabwean Co-Minister of State for National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration in the Cabinet of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. On 30 April 2012, Sekai Holland was announced as the 15th recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize, Australia’s only international award for peace. Sarah Kachingwe: Formerly permanent secretary in the then Ministry of Information, Posts and Telecommunications and a longtime advocate of women’s rights, Sarah Kachingwe passed away on 7 June 2012. Before her appointment in the Ministry of Information, Posts and Telecommunications, Kachingwe was the Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Community Development and Women’s Affairs. Nancy Kachingwe: $FWLYLVWEDVHGZLWK0ZHQJRDUHJLRQDOUHÁHFWLRQFHQWUHIRU1*2V3RUWIROLRLQFOXGHV 92 Shemurenga: The Zimbabwean Women’s Movement 1995-2000 DGYRFDF\FDPSDLJQVZLWKLQFLYLOVRFLHW\DQGDGYRFDF\ZLWKVSHFLÀFIRFXVRQHFRQRPLF policy. Pat Made: Then: Rich experience as a GAD practitioner, journalist, writer and media trainer. Former director general of InterPress Services Africa. Board member of Women’s Action Group and Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network. Now: Currently, a consultant with UN Women in Zimbabwe. Board member of Gender Links, a regional NGO based in South Africa. Shuvai Mahofa: Then: ZANU member since 1965. Active participation in the liberation war. Instrumental in founding the ZANU-PF women’s league. Member of Parliament since 1988 holding portfolios as Deputy Minister in both the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Political Affairs Now: Deputy Minister, in the Ministry of Youth, Development, Gender & Employment Creation. Revai Makanje: Then: Legal advocate and staff member of Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association. Coordinator of the Women’s Coalition. Now: Currently undertaking her doctoral studies with the University of Pretoria looking at women’s participation and organising in political/legal processes of constitution making in Zimbabwe and Kenya. A member of the African Feminist Forum, and the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers, Revai has served on the boards of several women’s rights organisations including feminist movement building organisation, JASS (Just Associates). She has worked for the Dutch development and funding organisation HIVOS, the United Nations Development Programme in Zimbabwe, and Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association, engaging with civil society to challenge human rights abuses and gender injustice in Zimbabwe and the Southern Africa region. Thoko Matshe: Then: Feminist activist leader within the women’s movement. Past director of the Zimbabwean Women’s Resource Centre and Network and Executive Director of the National Constitutional Assembly. Founder member the Women in Parliament Support Unit. Now: A committed women’s rights activist and feminist, Thoko Matshe is the Africa Regional Co-ordinator of the Olof Palme International Centre. She sits on the board of several organisations, in South Africa, Crisis in Zimbabwe (SA) and Masimanyane Women Support Center, WIPSU (Zimbabwe), and internationally, the International 93 Appendix 2 )HPLQLVW8QLYHUVLW\1HWZRUNDQGRQWKHDGYLVRU\ERDUGRI,:5$:$VLD3DFLÀF Pat McFadden: Then: Radical feminist activist. Academic co-ordinator of the gender programme at the Southern African Research Institute for Policy Studies (SARIPS), which is a part of SAPES Trust. Editor of the Southern African Feminist Review (SAFERE). Now: Currently teaches, and advocates internationally for women’s issues. McFadden has served as a professor at Cornell University, Spelman College, Syracuse University and Smith College in the United States. She also works as a ‘feminist...