Thoko Matshe

Thoko Matshe is a human rights activist with over twenty five years experience in development work, and over fifteen years in leadership of civil society organizations and several women’s organizations in South Africa, the UK and Zimbabwe. She has extensive knowledge of the women’s movement in Africa. Thoko is a committed women’s rights activist and feminist. She has worked for several funding organisations and is currently the Africa Regional Coordinator of the Olof Palme International Center. As chairperson of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) (1999-2001) she led the NCA and Zimbabwean civil society through the constitutional struggle and the campaign for a NO vote in the constitutional referendum, Zimbabwe, 2000. She currently sits on the board of several organizations in South Africa, Crisis in Zimbabwe (SA) and Masimanyane Women Support Center, WIPSU (Zimbabwe), and internationally, the International Feminist University Network, and on the advisory board of IWRAW Asia Pacific.