"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"