Call for Multi-Faceted Approach to GBV
The government has called for a multi-stakeholder approach in the fight against Gender-Based Violence in Zimbabwe which has increased over time particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. GBV is one of the major challenges that women in Zimbabwe are facing with one in two reporting that they have been abused by current or former partners. Speaking […]
Remove Sanctions On Zimbabwe – Chakwera Tells West
Malawi president and SADC chairperson Lazarus Chakwera has called for the immediate and unconditional removal of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the Western bloc of states saying this would facilitate economic recovery. Zimbabwe is set to commemorate the Anti Sanctions Day on October 25. In a solidarity statement, Chakwera said: “As SADC we are concerned […]
Female Smallholder Farmers Plead for Government Support
DESPITE their immense contribution to the country’s food security, female smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe practicing agroecology (AE), and growing ‘women seeds’ particularly in rural areas are often discriminated against and not recognised by the government. “Women seeds” are defined as small indigenous grains traditionally grown by female growers. The seeds include millet, sorghum, groundnuts, cowpeas, […]
African Sex Workers Face Digital Abuse As Pandemic Pushes Them Online
Kenyan sex worker Elizabeth Otieno shudders each time her cellphone buzzes with a new notification. The device may have become a lifeline in helping her move her work online during the COVID-19 pandemic, but after a client secretly recorded their virtual sex session and leaked it onto the internet, every phone alert sends Otieno into […]
Govt Launches Operation to Curb Rampant Drug Abuse
In an effort to address rampant substance abuse among the youth in the country, the government Tuesday approved a multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral approach in order to arrest the situation under Operation Clean up Harare Ghetto. The operation will kick off in Harare and subsequently be spread across the country and widened to Operation Clean Up […]
‘Cancer Affecting More Young Women’
Cervical cancer is increasing every year and is mostly developing in women aged between 20 and 24, yet normally the peak period is around 35 to 40, the Cancer Association of Zimbabwe (CAZ) has said. Speaking during a virtual meeting held last week focusing on cancer, the Information Research and Evaluations officer at the Cancer […]
Zim Receives U.S.$1bn IMF Windfall Today
Zimbabwe is set to get an injection of around US$1 billion, its allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today, with part of the money earmarked for health, manufacturing, agriculture, education and mining. IMF member countries started getting their shares of the new special issue SDRs totalling about US$650 billion […]
Gender Commission Calls for Mining Reforms
Women inclusion in the mining sector value chain hinges on legal reforms to promote decent work, equality, and gender mainstreaming says the Zimbabwe Gender Commission. ZGC, commissioner Naome Chimbetete decried the lack of involvement of women in mining as an indictment on policymakers, as she called for progressive reforms to promote equal opportunities for participation. […]
Rural Girls Still Struggle to Get Sanitary Towels
About 72% of schoolgirls in rural areas do not use commercial sanitary wear, resorting to unhygienic means, while 62% miss school every month while menstruating, an official has said. Pepukai Chivore, Parliament’s budget office director, told stakeholders meeting on gender sensitivity in the education budget jointly organised by Education Coalition of Zimbabwe and Plan International, […]
Jeffrey Moyo Granted Bail, Prisons Block His Release As ‘Papers Not in Order’
Prison officials at Greys Remand in Bulawayo were Tuesday evening declining to release New York Times correspondent, Jeffrey Moyo, who had been granted $5 000 bail at the High Court earlier today. The prison officials claimed the clerk of court’s papers were different from those on Moyo’s warrant of liberty. Moyo was arrested last month […]
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