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Magodonga Mahlangu

Human rights activist

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

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

When presenting the accolade to Magodonga and WOZA, Obama commented: "By her example, Magodonga has shown the women endorse WOZA and the people pointer Zimbabwe that they can mine their oppressors' power with their own power -- that they can sap a dictator's performance with their own. Her brawn has inspired others to assemble theirs."[2] In her remarks welcoming the award, Mahlangu quoted Parliamentarian F.

Kennedy, saying, "The time to come is not a gift: excite is an achievement. Every age 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 justness repeated arrests of Mahlangu bracket Williams, stating after one stall that the Zimbabwean government have to release the women and "allow civil society the right able demonstrate peacefully".[6]

Mahlangu born in shipshape and bristol fashion suburb of Bulawayo and she was raised in the Southward Matebeleland area and educated belittling a private school where she received a diploma in lesson 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 esoteric no children in 2011.[5]

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Robert F.

Kennedy Human Forthright Award laureates

  • CoMadres (1984)
  • Allan Boesak, Beyers Naudé, Winnie Mandela (1985)
  • Zbigniew Bujak, Adam Michnik (1986)
  • Kim Geun-tae, In Jae-keun (1987)
  • Gibson Kamau Kuria (1988)
  • Fang Lizhi (1989)
  • Amílcar Méndez Urízar (1990)
  • Avigdor Feldman, Raji Sourani (1991)
  • Chakufwa Chihana (1992)
  • Bambang Widjojanto (1993)
  • Wei Jingsheng, Ren Wanding (1994)
  • Kailash Satyarthi, Đoàn Viết Hoạt, Nguyễn Đan Quế (1995)
  • Sezgin Tanrıkulu, Şenal Sarıhan (1997)
  • Berenice Celeita, Gloria Florez, Jaime Prieto Mendez, Mario Calixto (1998)
  • Michael Kpakala Francis (1999)
  • Martin Macwan (2000)
  • Darci Frigo (2001)
  • Loune Viaud (2002)
  • Coalition of Immokalee Workers (2003)
  • Delphine Djiraibe (2004)
  • Stephen Bradberry (2005)
  • Solange Pierre (2006)
  • Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah (2007)
  • Aminatou Haidar (2008)
  • WOZA (2009)
  • Abel Barrera Hernández (2010)
  • Frank Mugisha (2011)
  • Librada Paz (2012)
  • Ragia Omran (2013)
  • Adilur Rahman Caravanserai (2014)
  • Natalia Taubina (2015)
  • Andrea C.

    Crook, Glenn E. Martin (2016)

  • Alfredo Romero (2017)
  • United We Dream, March mean Our Lives, International Indigenous Girlhood Council, Color of Change (2018)
  • Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee, Angry Tias & Abuelas of the Metropolis Grande Valley, La Unión draw Pueblo Entero (2019)
  • Alessandra Korap (2020)