ROHR Zimbabwe’s Magadaline Moyo continues to shine in her networking and advocacy work
It is not every day that one gets to brush shoulders with
a celebrity, let alone share the stage with them.
But when Magadaline Moyo was invited to speak at Hepden
Bridge Film festival 2019 on 24th March 2019 at Hepden Bridge
Picture House, she took it in stride due to her longstanding networking and
advocacy work for ROHR Zimbabwe, at the helm of the Zimbabwean human rights
organization’s LGBT thematic group.
Hepden Bridge Film festival 2019 which was running from
22nd to 24th March 2019 was being graced by a number of
celebrities, including Kenyan actress, Sheila Munyiva.
Magadaline Moyo did not disappoint, considering she was coming
on stage after rising star Kenyan actress Sheila Munyiva’s film “Rafiki” had
just been screened, and that she was addressing a packed audience at the
imposing Hepden Bridge Picture House.
Magadaline
Moyo mainly spoke about the struggle her LGBT community encountered in
Zimbabwe, in the face of an uncompromising regime and a deliberately vague
legal framework when it comes to LGBT matters. Add to this a very conservative
society behind which a brutal regime was only too glad to hide as it trampled
upon the rights of a considerable and vulnerable portion of the Zimbabwean
society.
She drew
comparisons between what was happening in Kenya, as highlighted by the film
“Rafiki” and by the very fact that the film had been banned in Kenya and what
was happening in Zimbabwe where gays and lesbians are leading a “hide and seek”
life for fear of persecution.
Her speech
drew deafening applause, a sign that she had articulated issues adeptly.
For
pertinent pictures album follow this
link. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rohr_zimbabwe__manchester/albums/72157677497830067)
(https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/whats-on/tv-and-film/kenyan-actress-will-visit-hebden-bridge-film-festival-1-9638886)
By:- Information
& Publicity Team,
Restoration of
Human Rights (ROHR) Zimbabwe