Divine Mafa
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Divine Ndabezitha Mafa, a (Notable Rhodes Scholars) Rhodes Scholar (born May 10, 1970) son of a prominent founder and famed Zimbabwean opposition leader has worked as Director of Medical Rehab Group Inc, and CEO of Africa Technology and Business Institute. He also heads a non-profit organization, USKfa.org (US KIDS FOR AFRICA)
Early activism:
His father is the first person to ever mobilize a nationwide nonviolent march, in Zimbabwe against the Government of Robert Mugabe in 1981. Over 20,000 people of his tribe, the Ndebele of KwaZulu people perished under the rule of President Robert Mugabe, including Divine's elder brother. Mafa was a noted leader of the student movement at the University of Zimbabwe in 1992 and 1994, leading antigovernment protests at the University of Zimbabwe which led to his arrest and imprisonment. He was later educated on a Rhodes scholarship at Merton College, Oxford in the United Kingdom. He refused to graduate under the scholarship even after completing the studies citing reasons that the founder of the scholarship, Cecil John Rhodes[1] was a colonialist who never intended to award the scholarship to blacks but to make them subject under the white supremacy. Cecil John Rhodes had also killed his great-great grand father, King Lobengula, and plunderized the lands of Zimbabwe for his own interests to the extent of naming the country of Zimbabwe with his own name Rhodesia. Divine however, finalized his studies at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and obtained a Ph.D., in Medical Biomechanics, Ergonomics, and Kinesiology. He then moved to the United States where he held several professorships and did research in the same field. He also invented, Mafaism, a self help philosophy, based on his own experiences and logic.
Mafa challenged the Zimbabwean government ministers for abusing Zimbabwe's land reform program, engaging in: "monopolistic politics of domination, corruption, and petty bourgeois accumulation." A very sad state of affairs. An arrest warrant on Mafa was imposed in Zimbabwe, for alleged espionage and violation of the POSA, public order and security act. The sentence is only one, DEATH! The Zimbabwean Government has alleged that some people have tried to work with the USA and British Government to overthrow it. Mafa denies this fact. He plans to go back and help his fathers political party to sail into power, as the new generation of leadership. He has serious ambitions to be a contender for the Zimbabwe Presidency in the future
[edit] References
- Scouting on Two Continents, by Major Frederick Russell Burnham, D.S.O.. LC call number: DT775 .B8 1926. (1926)
- Migrant Kingdom: Mzilikazi's Ndebele in South Africa, by R. Kent Rasmussen (1978)
- Mzilikazi of the Ndebele, by R. Kent Rasmussen (1977)
- The Zulus and Matabele, Warrior Nations by Glen Lyndon Dodds, (1998)
- Historical Dictionary of Zimbabwe, by Steven C. Rubert and R. Kent Rasmussen (3rd ed., 2001
