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Sekai Holland is the Zimbabwean Co-Minister of State for National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration in the Cabinet of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Sekai has been involved in a number of human rights issues, from those of the Australian Aborigines, ending the apartheid system in South Africa, the rights of women and democracy in Zimbabwe.〔(), "A Time of Heroes", Gordon Weiss, The Global Mail, 1 May 2012, retrieved 6 June 2012.〕 Her father, teacher-writer-magazine editor, Masotsha Mike Hove (1914-2012), was elected in 1953 as a special representative to the First Central African Federation parliament. He had the distinction of being the first African allowed to be designated an "employee" under the regulations pertaining to the Rhodesian Guild of Journalists in Southern Rhodesia.〔http://www.chronicle.co.zw/obituarymasotsha-mike-hove-the-man-who-saw-it-all/〕〔Jet 15 Jul 1954〕 ==Education and career== Sekai Holland travelled to Australia as a student, married Australian Jim Holland in 1965, and completed a Bachelor of Arts (Communication) at the University of Technology Sydney in 1979. In 1980 Sekai and her husband Jim Holland returned to Zimbabwe to be part of the post-liberation nation-building project. In the 1980s and 1990s, Sekai completed a Master of Science (Agricultural Journalism) at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), and worked in a number of volunteer and paid roles including: * Director: Free Zimbabwe Centre Sydney, Australia 1971 – 1980 * Founding member of Southern Africa Liberation Centre, Sydney Australia 1971 – 1980 * Representative of Zimbabwe African National Union: Australasia, South East Asia and the Far East 1974 – 1976 * Treasurer: Association of Women’s Clubs 1980 – 1986 * Zimbabwe Institute of Mass Communications (Harare): Founder Research Coordinator 1981 * National Chairperson: Association of Women’s Clubs (AWC) 1986 – 1999 * Lecturer in Media Studies: 1982 – 1987 * Consultant with Martinelli and Associates as Sociologist for Water and Sanitation Project in Matebeleland South: 1987 – 1989 * Media Coordinator: European Union Delegation in Zimbabwe: 1990 – 1991 * Sociologist for German Bank in Swaziland Dam Project for the Government of Swaziland 1992 * Consultant: Association of Women’s Clubs (AWC) 1999 – ongoing 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sekai Holland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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