"When I qualified, it took another seven years before any other black girl registered in the medical school. And then they came out from high schools, from Bonda, from St Augustine’s, and from Goromonzi. Lots of girls came to register in the medical school. And you know, during my lifetime, I’ve been integrating and talking and attending meetings and continued medical education. I attend that almost weekly. And the latest drugs, the latest, new diseases and all that, I’m in front. So I’m quite happy and the girls, there are over 600 women doctors in Zimbabwe after, I qualified. They have done very, very well. They’ve done specialties, you name it, they are there, specialists in cardiology, radiology, oncology, paediatrics, you name it. All the fraternities, they are women and they are doing very, very well"
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Celebrating Zimbabwe’s first black female doctor,14 August 2025
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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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