"The boys didn’t accept that I was top of the class. They used to say, you’ve got a male brain. You are a woman, you shouldn’t be top of the class. But I topped the class from grade one up to grade standard six. And then in secondary, I was also top of the class. So there was that challenge of competition with the boys. And my father used to work at the mission as a gardener. So he used to come home and tell us, the visitors that came to the mission, he told us about Herbert Chitepo, the first black lawyer in Zimbabwe"
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Madeline Nyamwanza-Makonese
Madeline Nyamwanza-makonese is the first Zimbabwean female doctor, the second African woman to become a doctor, and the first African woman to graduate from the University of Rhodesia Medical School. She graduated from the University of Rhodesia Medical School in 1970. Madeline's success is significant and was a huge step forward for women in Zimbabwe, where women are considered culturally unequal to men.
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