Nyamwanza-Makonese is the first Zimbabwean female doctor, the second African woman to become a doctor, and the first African woman to graduate from the University of Rhodesia Medical School

Nyamwanza-Makonese is the first Zimbabwean female doctor, the second African woman to become a doctor, and the first African woman to graduate from the University of Rhodesia Medical School.She graduated from the University of Rhodesia Medical School in 1970. Madeline’s success is significant and was a huge step forward for women in Zimbabwe, where women are sadly considered by a retrogressive, non democratic lawless section as culturally unequal or inferior to men. 

In 2014 there was a scandal as it was alleged that Madeline’s husband, Deputy board chairman Eben Makonese of the medical aid society Cimas Medical Aid Society, influenced the appointment of his unqualified brother-in-law as the group’s director of medical services. wikipedia