Bellita Banda Chitsamatanga is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oliver Tambo Chair of Human Rights Centre at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. She holds a PhD in Education, a Masters in Education and Honours in Education from the University of Fort Hare (South Africa) and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Communication from the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU). She has published on gender issues, rights of children and school based violence . Currently, she is an Executive Member for Stand as 1Against GBV  at the University of Fort Hare, she is also an  Advisory Board Member  forSouth Africa International conference on Education (African Academic Research Forum).