Mr. Paul Themba Nyathi is the current Director of Masakhaneni Trust based in Bulwayo, Zimbabwe. He is a former Zimbabwe politician who began his career as a primary school teacher. He became a member of ZAPU and was appointed as provincial leader before being jailed for three years in Wha Wha prison, Gwelo for recruiting people to train as freedom fighters. In prison, he studied for a Bachelor of Arts through the University of South Africa by correspondence. When he came out of prison in 1979, he was appointed to ZAPU’s central committee, a position he held until 1987 when the Unity Accord came into place.

In 1980, he travelled to the then Soviet Union where he spent a year studying centralised economic development in Moscow. When he came back, he lectured in co-operative development at Mashiyo Kushingo Agricultural College for a year. In 1982 Mr. Nyathi joined the Zimbabwe Project Trust as a Project Officer promoting co-operative development. Seven years later, he became the Education Director of ZPT, three years after that he was appointed ZPT’s Deputy Director. He has been the Deputy Chairperson of the National Transitional Justice Working Group from 2017 to date.