Zimbabwean woman Nicolle Ndiweni elected police and crime commissioner (PCC) for Derbyshire
Zimbabwean-born woman, Nicolle Ndiweni has been elected as police and crime commissioner (PCC) for Derbyshire.
The Labour candidate earned 93,260 votes, nearly 30,000 more than the incumbent, Angelique Foster of the Conservatives, who received 65,293.
Reform’s Russell Armstrong came in third place with 32,944 votes, with Liberal Democrat David Hancock receiving 22,540.
A total of 803,297 voted in the election, with a turnout of 26.6%.
Nicolle Ndiweni was elected as the first black councillor of Hucknall on the Ashfield District Council, UK in 2015.
Born in 1989, Ndiweni attended Rydings School in Karoi where she became a prefect, a librarian and a member of the choir before attending Arundel Senior School, Harare, for a short while after which she moved to another conveniently small town in the UK called Hucknall.
In Hucknall, she did her sixth form at Holgate School where she was appointed as the first head girl, elected to the student council, school council and ethnic minority representative for Conexions.
She then studied for a BA in Criminology and International Relations at the University of Lincoln where she was then elected president of the Afro-Caribbean Society. There, she was involved in various campaigns against racism, gender discrimination, gang violence and gun crime.
