Dewa Mavhinga (1979 – 4 December 2021) was a lawyer and Southern African Director of Human Rights Watch.
[3] After university, he joined the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition as a Regional Coordinator based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Mavhinga was an on the ground human rights practitioner who spent most of his career working within communities in southern Africa in countries such as Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, and Zimbabwe as a representative of the Human Rights Watch.
[7] The act was created as a deterrent and reaction to the Mugabe regime's infamous land grab programme resulting in a group of politicians placed under targeted sanctions.
[8][9] He was married to Fiona Muchembere, his college sweetheart, and they had four children: Gamu, Mufaro, Hondo and Makaita.