Magodonga mahlangu biography of albert
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Magodonga Mahlangu
Human rights activist
Magodonga Mahlangu is a women's rights campaigner from Zimbabwe who in 2009 was awarded the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award by U.S.
President Barack Obama.[1]
Mahlangu is a leader of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), founded with Jenni Williams. When presenting the award to Magodonga and WOZA, Obama commented: "By her example, Magodonga has shown the women of WOZA and the people of Zimbabwe that they can undermine their oppressors' power with their own power -- that they can sap a dictator's strength with their own.
Her courage has inspired others to summon theirs."[2] In her remarks accepting the award, Mahlangu quoted Robert F. Kennedy, saying, "The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future."[3]
As of 2008, Mahlangu had been arrested more than 25 times[4] and by 2011, over 30 times.[5]Human Rights Watch denounced the repeated arrests of