Famous People with Name Ticha

Ticha Penicheiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Portuguese

Ticha Penicheiro: is a Portuguese professional basketball player in the WNBA. She recently played for the Sacramento Monarchs. She will be playing for the Los Angeles Sparks for the 2010 season. In 1998, Penicheiro joined the Sacramento Monarchs as a rookie, finishing thir

Tichaona Joseph Benjamin Jokonya            Origin/Culture/Country: Zimbabwe

Tichaona Joseph Benjamin Jokonya: was a Zimbabwean politician, civil servant and diplomat. In 1965 Jokonya became more involved in politics and was appointed as Secretary for Political Affairs by the National Union of Zimbabwe Students. The NUZS supported majority rule and after the Unilateral Declaration of Independence Jokonya left the country, fearing that he would be detained. After travelling through Botswana, and Zambia he settled in Nairobi, Kenya where he enrolled at the University for a History degree. Jokonya was a good student and was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship for a postgraduate degree at the University of Sussex School of African Studies in 1968, at which he wrote a dissertation on military intervention in politics in Africa. He followed this with a thesis on colonial land policy in Malawi, and went on to the University of London's Institute of Education where he was awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in 1971. He taught in Birmingham for six years in the 1970s. In January 2002, he received an MA in Government and Politics, and a Certification in International Law and Diplomacy at St. John's University in New York. Following the 2005 election, Dr Jokonya was appointed Minister of Information. In contrast to the previous Minister Jonathan Moyo, Dr Jokonya tried to reach out to media sources which were less friendly to the Zimbabwe government. However, he frequently suggested that journalists should remember their patriotism, and was highly critical of those who wrote stories critical of Zimbabwe government policies for foreign media. According to Jan Raath in The Times, he described them as traitors and then said "You know what the end of a traitor is? Death."