Zimbabwean woman is UK town's first black councillor

BORN and raised in rural Karoi, Zimbabwe, United Kingdom-based Nicolle Ndiweni was on May 7 elected as the first black councillor of Hucknall on the Ashfield District Council, UK.

Born in 1989, Ndiweni attended Rydings School in Karoi where she became a prefect, a librarian and member of the choir before attending Arundel Senior School, Harare, for a short while after which she moved to another conveniently small town in the UK called Hucknall.

In Hucknall, she did her sixth form at Holgate School where she was appointed as the first head girl, elected to the student council, school council and ethnic minority representative for Conexions.

She then studied for a BA in Criminology and International Relations at the University of Lincoln where she was then elected president of the Afro-Caribbean Society. There, she was involved in various campaigns against racism, gender discrimination, gang violence and gun crime.