Tsungai Kupeta is a Zimbabwean pursuing a PhD in Economics at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on climate justice and protection through sustainable transitions in South Africa. The aim of the study is to understand the labor market implications associated with the transition. She grew up in rural areas in Zimbabwe with her single mother (a domestic worker), whom she had to take care of during her high school studies when her mother was critically ill. Despite all the financial challenges and hardships she faced growing up, she managed to break the school record and become the best-ever student at her Ordinary Level.
Tsungai is committed to empowering women and girls through education so that the gender gap can be closed in the labor market to fight today’s injustices and develop a society for the benefit of generations to come. In line with this, she has mentored several women and young girls to rewrite their GSCE exams in Zimbabwe. She has also organized several outreaches as a peer educator and mentor to high school students in underserved areas in rural Zimbabwe.
Her future goal is to establish a well-coordinated organisation that helps vulnerable women and girls in Zimbabwe, particularly in rural areas, by empowering and mentoring women to become economically independent and socially confident for better livelihoods and sustainable income.
