EXPERTS have implored the public to adopt healthy lifestyle habits, including better eating and safe sex practices, to significantly reduce cancer risk. Speaking at the Moonlight Cancer Trust dinner on Friday, oncologist Webster Kadzatsa encouraged women to breastfeed their babies for a longer period as this also minimises cancer risk, noting that while prevention is…
A FACTION of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by former vice president Elias Mudzuri is set to establish a steering committee as part of preparations for the party’s congress to elect a new leader. This comes after High Court Judge Justice Happias Zhou ruled that the MDC party’s 2022 congress, led by Douglas…
AT LEAST 41 people have died and 51 households destroyed across Zimbabwe due to rainfall-related incidents since the start of the 2025/2026 rainy season in October, the Department of Civil Protection (DCP) has confirmed. This comes after the Meteorological Services Department (MSD), in collaboration with the DCP, issued a Level 2 weather warning on November…
THE Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) is demanding an urgent inquiry into the government’s failure to enforce laws against child marriages. In a petition to Parliament that has been endorsed by more than 2 000 women’s rights activists and 86 organisations, WCoZ accuses authorities of failing to implement Section 3 of the Marriages Act, which…
INDEPENDENT policy research organisation, SIVIO Institute, has partnered with 15 civil society organisations to launch the ‘We Are One Fund’, a fundraising…
A TOTAL of 16 people have died and two others have been injured in rainfall-related incidents across Zimbabwe since the start of the 2025/2026 rainy season in October, according to the Department of Civil Protection. This follows a recent incident in which six miners were trapped after a mine was flooded. In a report, the…
A DUO from Chipinge, Joseph Mafondokoto and Kudakwashe Mafondokoto were sentenced to 43 years’ imprisonment by Chipinge Magistrate Robson Chineka after being convicted of seven counts of robbery. In a statement, CID spokesperson Rachel Muteweri stated that the two all of Chikwanda Village, Chief Mutema, Chipinge together with their accomplices Chakanetsa Mafondokoto and Tinashe Mashava,…
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) is calling for the strengthening of child-protection systems and effective enforcement of existing laws to effectively deal with child marriages. The call comes as the country joined the world in commemorating World Children’s Day, which ran under the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) theme for this year, “Listen to…
THE minister of Youth Empowerment, Tino Machakaire, has challenged his ministry’s provincial and district staff to transition policy discussions to tangible action, declaring that they must be the generation that “delivered” youth empowerment. Speaking at a strategic meeting with the staff from across the country in Harare yesterday, Machakaire stressed that the youth were not…
THE government has warned that justice system corruption undermines fairness and erodes crucial public trust. Speaking at the Summer School 2025 in Nyanga recently, the permanent secretary for the ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Vimbai Nyemba, stressed the need for collective action among all stakeholders in the justice sector to effectively combat graft….
