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The Commission Newsletter, January 31, 2017
Staff News
Newly appointed Executive
Secretary hopes to leave a mark
Mrs Makanatsa Makonese
T
he newly
sworn in
Zimbabwe Human
R i g h t s
Commission
(ZHRC) Executive
Secretary,
Mrs
M a k a n a k a
Makonese has paid
tribute to members
of the Commission
for
working
tirelessly in order to
ensure that a fully
functional National
Human
Rights
Institution is in
place.
Mrs Makonese said
experience
has
shown her that it is
difficult especially
for
countries
within the SADC
Region to set up a
v i b r a n t
N a t i o n a l
Human Rights body.
She said this at her
swearing
in
ceremony held at the
ZHRC Head Office
in Harare on 6
January 2017.
“I think what remains
for us as we go
forward is basically,
to ensure that after
establishing
ourselves as an
institution, we are
available, we are
responsive and we
are able to address
the human rights
needs of the citizens
of Zimbabwe and it
should not be a very
difficult function for
us from what I have
seen because I
believe we have a
very strong team in
place that is able to
discharge
those
functions as provided
for in the law and
Constitution
of
Zimbabwe,” said the
experienced lawyer
in her acceptance
remarks.
Prior to joining
ZHRC,
Mrs
Makonese worked
in a similar capacity
for the SADC
L a w y e r s ’
Association for
more than five
years. She replaces
Ms Jester Charewa
who
left
the
Commission to join
the High Court
bench. Since then,
the
Deputy
Executive Secretary
for Programmes, Mr
Vengesai
Erick
Mukutiri had been
holding fort in an
acting capacity.
Well done Mr
Mukutiri!
Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Chikuvadze who tied the knot in Harare on 17 December 2016. The
groom, McDonald, is a Records Assistant at ZHRC Head Office.
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