Episode 9 - Interview with Fungisai Chitare

Fungisai is an Intern at Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe. She studied sociology and minored in enviromental studies. She speaks about how she got involved with WCoZ. Being the youngest member of the WCoZ secreterait, she reflects on what the younger generetation thinks of the women's right movement as well as their concerns.

Interview conducted by Amber Minnings and Mola Shahsavari

Episode 8 - Interview with Netsai Mushonga National Coordinator of WCoZ

Netsai Mushonga is a women rights and peace activist and the National Coordinatio of the Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe.She has worked on a variety of projects to bring peace to Zimbabwe including a nonviolence and gender project which aimed to raise awareness of gender based violence.She has also worked to train election monitors in nonviolence and has participated in monitoring elections in Zimbabwe at the highest levels to foster a culture of democracy.

Interview conducted by Amber Minnings and Mola Shahsavari

Episode 7 - Interview with Theresa Makware the Coordinator of Zimbabwe Parents of Children with Disabilities Association (ZPCDA)

Theresa Makware is the Coordinator of Zimbabwe Parents of Children with Disabilities Association (ZPCDA). In this podcast she disccusses her role in ZPCDA and reflects on challenges that mothers of children with disability are facing in Zimbabwe. Theresa is hereself mother of a child living with disabilities. She joined the organization in 1988 as a member and later became a strong activist. She talks about the "dollar fatigue" that her organization is facing due to the fact that most donors are focused on other sectors.

Interview conducted by: Mola Shahsavari

Episode 6 - Interview with Patience Zirima

Policy and Advocacy Officer at WCoZ

Patience Zirima is the Policy and Advocacy officer at WCoZ. She started working with the Women's Rights Movement in Zimbabwe in 2002 when she was involved with the Federation of African Media Zimbabwe. She specialized on Media advocacy, gender sensitivity in media and monitoring media representation of African in media.

Ms. Zirima discusses how she got involved with the movement and reflects on her experiences as well as her role within Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe.

Interview conducted by: Amber Minnings and Mola Shahsavari

Episode 4 - Interview with Audrey Charamba
WCoZ Board Member & Director of the Zimbabwe Women Writers (ZWW)

In this episode, Audrey Charamba, the Director of the Zimbabwe Women Writers organization, talks about the importance of the written word & other forms of expression for Zimbabwean women. She also discusses how print & other media create a space for women's advocacy & can promote positive images of women & challenge negative stereotypes.

In addition, Ms. Charamba relates her personal experiences growing up in a patriarchal society & her struggle to understand limiting gender roles in Zimbabwean society.

Interview Conducted by Mola Shahsavari and Amber Minnings

Episode 3 - Interview with Tafadzwa Muropa
WCoZ Peacebuilding Officer & Gender Activist

Gender activist & political economist, Tafadzwa Muropa, discusses the links between capitalism & gender inequality, domestic violence & peacebuilding, politics & women's socio-economic rights.

“For any woman to enjoy her socio-economic rights, the environment must be peaceful,” she says. She argues that the current political context in Zimbabwe is divisive & describes the gender-based violence that occurred during Zimbabwe's 2008 elections.

Ms. Muropa also discusses changing gender roles in society & the role Zimbabwean men can & do have in achieving gender equality.

Interview conducted by: Amber Minnings and Mola Shahsavari

Episode 1 - Interview with Rita Nyampinga
WCoZ Board Member & Labour Activist

Former trade unionist, Rita Nyampinga, speaks about her experiences in the labour movement in the mid-2000s. Ms. Nyampinga worked for Post and Telecommunication Corp. for over 20 years & was fired in 2004 after taking part in a strike aiming to force her employer to pay 6 months of unpaid wages & improve working conditions.

Following this labour dispute, Ms. Nyampinga joined the women's movement in Zimbabwe to address gender inequality in the workplace. She explains that Zimbabwean men are better able to engage in migrant labour as they have better access to official documents such as passports & dominate the natural resource sectors. In contrast, women dominate in the informal economy & still bear primary responsibility for childcare & maintaining the household.

Interview conducted by: Amber Minnings and Mola Shahsavari