Makesure Choga
Makesure Choga is a human rights defender and leader of Mbizo Community Theatre. He uses drama and theatre to encourage young people to sign up to vote in the upcoming elections and shares them on social media. As part of this project, he has organised community theatre in a number of villages, towns and cities and these productions include key electoral developments to inform the public ready for the 2018 elections
Despite numerous challenges, Zimbabwe has an active civil society advocating for a broad range of human rights issues, yet increasing numbers of human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists are being targeted due to their legitimate human rights work. This has included being subjected to threats, arbitrary detention, abductions and enforced disappearances and the police are able to act with impunity. In particular, human rights defenders tackling issues concerning corruption, public accountability and impunity have been targeted.
