Netsai Marova is a Zimbabwean youth campaigner for the Movement for Democratic Change, who was abducted for two days at an anti-government protest in May 2020. As a student at

Chinhoyi University of Technology Chinhoyi University of Technology also known as CUT was established by an Act by the Parliament of Zimbabwe on 10 December 2001. It is located in the town of Chinhoyi in Mashonaland West about 120 km from Harare towards Lake Kariba and the Zamb ...

at the age of 15,Marova highlighted the vulnerable position of women students there in 2017. She has been mentored by MP Joana Mamombe, a fellow Chinhoyi student, and has in turn provided similar support to young girls in

Mabvuku Mabvuku is a suburb east of Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe. History Old Mabvuku traces its origins back to the 1950s, with its oldest school, Donnybrook Primary School, established in 1954. New Mabvuku, on the other hand, was developed ...

. On 13 May 2020 she and two other women, MP Joana Mamombe and fellow youth activist Cecilia Chimbiri, were abducted by masked assailants at a

Harare Harare ( ), formerly Salisbury, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of , a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 Zimbabwe census, 2022 census and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metrop ...

protest against the government's failure to provide for the poor during the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

. Two days later, the women were found, badly injured and traumatised, by the side of the road sixty miles from Harare. They reported having been tortured and repeatedly sexually assaulted. The three women were then charged with "communicating falsehoods" for their claims to have been abducted, tortured and held incommunicado by unidentified people. In August 2020 they appeared at court, and had their trial postponed until September 15. Fearless MDC Alliance Youth Assembly official Netsai Marova’s name has appeared on the Gumiguru list of 50 under 30 emerging young leaders in Zimbabwe. Netsai is on sixth position.Wow! what an honour to be recognised, celebrated and counted on the list of 50 under 30 Emerging young leaders in Zimbabwe, class of 2021 being on number 6 and together with other phenomenal leaders.

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