28 Facts About Daniel Molokele

Daniel Molokele was a career trade unionist and a well-known community leader in Hwange.

Daniel Molokele was a key leader of both the Associated Mineworkers Union of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions.

Daniel Molokele's mother, Jane Mpofu, was a career educator specializing in pre-school education.

Daniel Molokele has since retired and is based at Bulawayo.

Daniel Molokele's father used to play in the amateur football league known as the Wankie Football Association.

Politically, both of Daniel Molokele's parents were active local leaders for the Zimbabwe African People's Union during his entire childhood years.

Daniel Molokele spent all his childhood years at No 1 Colliery.

Daniel Molokele's family stayed at several homes in Hwange that included P63, O21, L24 and M28.

Daniel Molokele did all his seven years of primary education at the St Ignatius primary school between 1982 and 1988.

Daniel Molokele was an activist from the time he arrived at the UZ.

Daniel Molokele was actively involved in various campus platforms such as the Christian Union, Matabeleland Development Society and of course in the mainstream student politics.

Daniel Molokele was a student leader at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare between 1995 and 1999.

Daniel Molokele was involved in the national and international student politics.

Daniel Molokele participated in different programmes and conferences of the Southern African Students Union from 1997 to 1999.

Daniel Molokele was one of the prominent student leaders that were instrumental in the setting up of the constitutional movement of Zimbabwe in 1997, the National Constitutional Assembly.

Daniel Molokele was lured to full-time activism when he was appointed as the Bulawayo regional programme officer for the National Constitutional Assembly.

Daniel Molokele has been employed by various other organisations in South Africa over the years.

Daniel Molokele was based at Cape Town between May 2009 and April 2011 where he was instrumental in the mobilisation of the Zimbabwean community there under the local chapter of the GZF.

In recent years, Daniel Molokele has been actively involved with such platforms as the Zimbabwe Diaspora Support Initiative, Learnmore and Rutendo Jongwe Memorial trust, Friends of Nora Tapiwa, Highlanders FC Bosso South Africa branch and the Southern Africa regional offices for the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition.

Daniel Molokele has been actively involved with the local South Africa civil society.

Daniel Molokele has been an active member of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Freedom of Expression Institute of South Africa and the Gender Media Network of Southern Africa.

Daniel Molokele has over the years written several unpublished works and manuscripts ranging from biographies, fictional stories, poetry and movie scripts.

Daniel Molokele now attends the His People Church at Johannesburg.

Daniel Molokele has managed to further his studies and now holds a master's in human rights litigation degree from the University of South Africa and a master's in business administration from the African Leadership University.

Daniel Molokele was until the end of May 2014 based at Rosebank at Johannesburg where he was working as the Civil Society Partnerships Programme Manager for the Southern Africa Regional Programme on Access to Medicines and Diagnostics.

Daniel Molokele now serves as the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee for Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development.

In June 2019, Daniel Molokele was appointed as the Spokesperson or Secretary for Communications under the MDC Alliance that is led by President Advocate Nelson Chamisa.

Daniel Molokele has been married to a supportive partner, Doctor Samukeliso Dube since November 2001 and they have a daughter called Matilda-Jane, who was born on 1 April 2006.