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Father Fidelis Mukonori

A Zimbabwean Jesuit.

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Born on the 15th day of July in 1947, Father Fidelis Mukonori is 73 years old. He is also the Executive Director of Centre for Peace Initiatives in Africa. . Father Fidelis Mukonori is currently a Priest for Chishawasha Parish and Principal of Chishawasha Primary Boarding School. He was appointed Executive Director of the Center for Peace Initiatives in Africa (CPIA) after serving for 12 years as a member of CPIA's Advisory Group of Eminent Persons. Father Fidelis Mukonori is probably Southern Africa’s best-known Jesuit and is certainly the most influential Jesuit in Zimbabwe. . He has a long history with Mr. Mugabe. The former president really got to know the Jesuit priest in 1973 and ’74, when Father Mukonori was working with Zimbabwean youth in exile preparing to fight for independence against the colonialist Rhodesian Army. He had been keeping them in touch with their families and informed about what the leaders in exile were saying. According to Father Mukonori, Mr. Mugabe and other former political prisoners heard of his work with the guerrillas and reached out to him. . In 2003 Father Fidelis Mukonori met with Morgan Tsvangirai. It was reported that the purpose of the meeting was for Mukonori to hear the MDC's position and demands so that prior talks that had collapsed in 2002 would resume. The talks were centred on ending Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis. Father Mukonori brokered a deal between war veterans and commercial farmers in Zimbabwe. With Father Fidelis Mukonori's mediation, war veterans and cormecial farmers agreed to a peace deal that would see the end of violence that was happening on farms occupied by war veterans. . Father Fidelis Mukonori baptised notorious jailbreaker, serial killer and Serial rapist Steven Chidhumo before he was executed after being condemned to death for his crimes that shook Zimbabwe in the late 90s. Chidhumo changed his name from Steven to Fidelis after he was baptised at Parirenyatwa Hospital were he was receiving treatment for gunshot wounds.

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