Lovemore Madhuku

Madhuku is married to Annamercy and the couple has been blessed with three children: a daughter Tendai and two sons Nyasha and Kuziyakwashe. The marriage is said to have hit the rocks when he allegedly impregnated his sister-in-law.

Lovemore Madhuku was born on July 20, 1966 in Chipinge, Zimbabwe.

After completing his preliminary education from a local school in Chipinge, he enrolled at the University of Zimbabwe to study law. In 1990, he was awarded a first-class Bachelor of Law degree.

His outstanding academic performance earned him a Beit Trust Fellowship to study law at Oxford University in UK. Though he did enrol at the same, after a term, he transferred himself to the University of Cambridge under Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship.

After completing his post graduate degree in law in 1994, he took an eighteen months break and returned to Zimbabwe where he joined a German NGO, Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung. Therein, he took up the profile of labour law consultant. Meanwhile, he taught at the Law Faculty in the University of Zimbabwe.

It was while he was studying for his doctorate degree that he was awarded a permanent lectureship in the Law Faculty at the University of Zimbabwe which he willingly accepted. Till date, he teaches constitutional law, labour law, jurisprudence, tax law and banking law to students.

In 1997, he became one of the founding members of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) whose primary aim has been to lobby for democratic reforms in the country.

Through NCA, Madhuku has openly opposed the one-party rule of Robert Mugabe (current President of Zimbabwe since 1987 and former Prime Minister of the country 1980–1987). His main aim has been to establish a democratic constitution that would put a permanent end to autocratic governance.

Since the establishment of NCA, he has served in important positions in the organization, first as its vice president from 1997 to 2001 and later as its president from 2001 to 2011.

During his tenure as the President of NCA, he successfully campaigned against a constitution introduced by Robert Mugabe in the national referendum in 2000.