{"id":4885,"date":"2014-05-31T12:18:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T10:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=4885"},"modified":"2014-05-31T12:18:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T10:18:03","slug":"interview-with-ray-motsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/31\/interview-with-ray-motsi\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Ray Motsi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ray<\/a>\"RayRay Motsi<\/a>,<\/span><\/b>\u00a0Ph.D. was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He left Zimbabwe at the age of 19 and attended college in England. After he graduated, he learned that there had been a massacre in Zimbabwe. This massacre was part of Robert Mugabe\u2019s Gukurahundi Conflict. He knew it was time to take a stand and make a change.\u00a0He has dedicated his life to combatting the conflict in Zimbabwe through peace-building and non-violence.\u00a0<\/span>President of the Theological College of Zimbabwe (TCZ) since January 1991. Dr. Motsi previously has served as a Baptist pastor in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe for more than 20 years and, in 2002, he founded Grace to Heal, a faith-based organization focusing on community peacemaking and conflict transformation. He graduated from TCZ with a B.A. in Practical Theology in 1990 and then later from the University of Pretoria in South Africa where he earned his M.A. in Old Testament and Hebrew in 2001,\u00a0<\/span>and his Ph.D. in Peacebuidling, Conflict Resolution, and Trauma Healing in 2009.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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