Tapera Kapuya

Mr. Tapera Kapuya "is the coordinator of the South Africa office of the National Constitutional Assembly, a civic movement that campaigns for a new constitution in Zimbabwe. He is former Africa region secretary for the International Union of Students, an umbrella organization representing 125 national student unions across the globe. Among his activities as regional secretary, Mr. Kapuya helped to raise financial support to student activists otherwise denied access to education due to their political beliefs. An original working-group member of the World Youth Movement for Democracy (WYMD), Mr. Kapuya is currently working to establish a regional chapter of the WYMD in Africa. As a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, Mr. Kapuya worked on developing new strategies and opportunities for involving youth in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe."

• 2007–2008, NED Past Fellows