Madeline Nyamwanza-Makonese is the first Zimbabwean female doctor, the second African woman to become a doctor, and the first African woman to graduate from the University of Rhodesia Medical School.
[2] Madeline's success is significant and was a huge step forward for women in Zimbabwe, where women are considered culturally unequal to men.
[4] In 2014, there was a scandal as it was alleged that Madeline's husband, Deputy board chairman Eben Makonese of the medical aid society Cimas Medical Aid Society, influenced the appointment of his unqualified brother-in-law as the group's director of medical services.
[5] An extract from the Sunday Mail dated 24 August 2014 highlighted:
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