Ottilia Chareka, the 42-year-old St. Francis Xavier University professor was killed on Wednesday March 16 by her husband, Patrick Ms. Chareka’s life story has been about jumping over obstacles, proving men wrong, doing the impossible.
She was the first woman in her clan to finish high school, the first to go to university (against her father’s wishes), the first to get a master’s degree and the first to complete her doctorate.
Ms. Chareka came to Canada in the early 1990s and discovered her teaching credentials were worthless. So she enrolled in the University of New Brunswick, and worked as a maid at the Lord Beaverbrook Hotel to pay the bills.
When she arrived, she learned her teaching degree was not recognized. She retrained at the University of New Brunswick, working as a hotel maid in Fredericton to pay for her tuition.
In a documentary about her life called Familiar Stranger, she said it was a big change for her — in Zimbabwe she had owned a house and employed a maid.
She got her master’s degree in 1994, returned to Zimbabwe in 2001, then went back to the University of New Brunswick to get her PhD in 2005.
Hundreds attended services for Ottilia Chareka the weekend following her death and last weekend two benefits were held with proceeds going to her five daughters.
May her soul rest in peace and may Patrick Chareka pay for his atrocities
At the time of her death she was an assistant professor at the Nova Scotia university.
Police say Ottilia Chareka, 42, died from injuries sustained in the family home Wednesday morning.
RCMP found her with life-threatening injuries after responding to a 911 call about a disturbance at 27 Centennial Dr. She died two hours later at St. Martha's Regional Hospital.
Patrick Chareka was arrested at the scene.
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