Farai Maguwu, is a PhD student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and also the Director of Centre for Natural Resource Governance in Zimbabwe.
He is a leading voice advocating for human rights, transparency and accountability in Zimbabwe’s extractive sector. In November 2011 he was honoured with the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism by Human Rights Watch. He played a leading in exposing massacres of civilians by the Zimbabwe National Army between 2008 and 2011 in the Marange diamond fields. As a member of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme civil society coalition, he has demanded the reform of the KPCS, mainly the broadening of the definition of conflict diamonds and a stronger monitoring of human rights throughout the diamond value chain.