© Seventeen-year-old Tanya Moyo (not her real name), who has been living on the streets for the past two years, says her menstruation days are the worst in her life. She also suffers period pain. [GoogleAd] “I usually use newspapers or rags when I’m lucky, but unfortunately, I do not have anything to help me…
© IT’S NOT every day one hears firebrand Zanu PF youth leader Lewis Matutu speaking in undercurrents towards a national subject. It’s not every day that you hear people like Zanu PF Chivi South Member of Parliament Killer Zivhu begging wives of Zimbabwe’s two strongest political protagonists to wade into the affairs of a country….
© SHE is only 17, but her story does not befit someone of her age. With some of her agemates still at school, she was forced out of education after she was impregnated by a 25-year school leaver when she had just turned 16. [GoogleAd] Upon learning that Nolwazi Nkiwane was expecting, her boyfriend, Zibusiso…
© By definition a convention or conference is a meeting or formal assembly of representatives or delegates for discussion of and action on particular matters of common concern. It is a formal meeting of people with a shared interest, typically taking place over several days. [GoogleAd] In this case, the International Healthcare Conference slotted for…
© WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa came into power in November 2017, he vowed to fight “this cancer called corruption”. Subsequent to his vow, a number of former Cabinet ministers, parastatal bosses among others, have been arraigned before the courts on graft-related charges after being arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) which is mandated to…
© TOO many cooks spoil the soup. That old adage is haunting the country’s fragmented trade unions as they seek to bargain with government for decent wages. [GoogleAd] With workers divided, the employer is now seemingly playing hide and seek and failing to fulfil pledges made to workers. Since early this year, the government has…
© NORMAN Chinyanga (not his real name) is sitting pensively on a bridge that has been converted into a meeting place for youths, mostly graduates from universities dotted around the country, with his mouth so dry you can easily tell he is hungry. [GoogleAd] A holder of a degree in Media Studies, Chinyanga left his…
© THERE is no joy for homosexuals in Zimbabwe after government gazzetted the Marriages Bill that curtails the rights of sexual minority groups by outlawing their marriage. [GoogleAd] The ouster of former president Robert Mugabe — who hated gays with a passion — and his replacement by his deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2017 was greeted with…
© LAW experts have said the provision used to detain Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira for 21 days is unconstitutional. [GoogleAd] They said it invokes memories of the scrapped draconian Section 121 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act, which former president Robert Mugabe’s administration used to detain his opponents without bail. Section 121 suspended a…
© THREE years after issuing final warnings to land invaders on their farms, the Harare City Council (HCC) was issued with an order by the High Court to evict all illegal occupants off Crowborough Farm. [GoogleAd] Hundreds of invaders had taken over the paddocks and parts of the sewer ponds, buying makeshift illegal structures. High Court…
