Background
Molokele was born at the Wankie Colliery Hospital in the town of Wankie, in the northwestern part of Rhodesia. His father"s name was Godfrey Majahana Mguni.
Molokele was born at the Wankie Colliery Hospital in the town of Wankie, in the northwestern part of Rhodesia. His father"s name was Godfrey Majahana Mguni.
University of Zimbabwe.
He currently resides in South Africa. He was a career trade unionist and a well known community leader in Hwange. He was also a key leader of both the Associated Mineworkers Union of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions.
He died in September 2003.
Molokele"s mother, Jane Mpofu, was a career educator specializing in pre-school education. She has since retired and is now based at Bulawayo.
Molokele spent all his childhood years at Number.1 Colliery (Lwendulu Village). His family stayed at several homes in Hwange that included P63, O21, L24 and M28.
Molokele did all his 7 years of primary education at the Street Ignatius primary school between 1982 and 1988.
In 1989, he was enrolled at a boarding school (Ingwenya Mission) at Ntabazinduna, just outside Bulawayo where he did he studies from Form 1 to 4 at John Tallach secondary school till 1992. Between 1993 and 1994, he was enrolled at another boarding school in Gweru where he did his A level studies at Fletcher high school. In March 1995, he was admitted at the University of Zimbabwe law faculty where he completed his Bachelor of Laws honours degree in May 1999.
Molokele changed his legal name from Fortune Mguni to Fortune Daniel Molokela-Tsiye in 2000, after a personal quest to reclaim his original family identity.
The process culminated in him being re-united with his father"s original people, the Molokele clan in Mafikeng, South Africa, in September 2004. Molokele is a former student leader who led the University of Zimbabwe Student Union from 1995 to 1999.
He served as the Secretary General (1995-1996), Vice President (1996-1997) and President (1998-1999) He was known for being a visionary and principled leader. Today, he is standing up against the Zimbabwean political crisis as a pro-democracy activist and human rights advocate.
Molokele is the voluntary International Company-ordinator for the Global Zimbabwe Forum (GZF), which a network of for all organisations representing Zimbabweans living outside the country.
(Diaspora communities)
Molokele has a full-time job as the Civil Society Protecting and Caring Together Lead for the Southern African Regional Programme on Access to Medicines (SARPAM) www.sarpam.net. He is based at Rosebank in Johannesburg.