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Fadzai Muparutsa leaving GALZ
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ)
February 23, 2012

On the 29th of February 2012, GALZ says goodbye to Fadzai Muparutsa after a decade of service.

In August 2003 Fadzai was appointed to the newly created position of Programme Manager for Gender at a time when women represented less than two percent of GALZ's total membership. Since then, Fadzai dedicated her energies to mobilizing lesbian, bisexual and trans women in Zimbabwe as well as confronting the negative attitudes of some men towards women within GALZ.

Women now represent over one third of GALZ's membership and they are visible at all levels within the organisation including positions of leadership.

She was GALZ's main representative within the Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe and the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL). She has also joined a number of delegations attending the United Nations, AWID and ILGA and was a key figure in GALZ advocacy efforts.

Fadzai was instrumental in organising a Sexual Orientation Indaba in 2010 for human rights organisations that at the end of the meeting agreed that it was important for the human rights organisations to speak on the need to have sexual orientation included in the new constitution resulting in GALZ putting forward a submission to COPAC.

We value her dedication towards emancipation of LBT women in particular and we will commit to continuing from where she has left off, together with the team that she has worked with in the Gender Department with the hope of fulfilling her dream. We wish her well and will be missed in GALZ.

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