HARARE – Children as young as nine years of age are registering for maternity services, something that exposes how Zimbabwean communities continue to allow the abuse of the girl child to go unreported. As young as they are, nurses at some of the health institutions — especially those in extremely remote areas — are registering…
HARARE – As the economy continues to deteriorate, rural areas are not being spared, with cash shortages and rising commodity prices hitting hamlets across the country. The less developed parts of Zimbabwe continue to squirm with low investments and little development, with cash shortages and rising commodity prices making villagers’ lives unbearable. Over five million…
HARARE – Poverty in the dormitory town of Epworth boarders on the extreme. Many live without basic entitlements such as birth certificates and identification particulars. Threats of typhoid and cholera are common place while the exchange of sex for money is rampant practice. Still, the town that grew from a rural community into a formal…
BULAWAYO – Our Bulawayo reporter Jeffrey Muvundusi sat down for an interview with Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (Galz) director Chesterfield Samba, to find more about the operations of this organisation which for years has somehow operated underground owing to the homophobic climate in the country. Q: Who is Chesterfield Samba? A: Chester was born…
HARARE – ‘Bleed with pride’ is the adage by Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights activists directed at every woman of age in the world, but economic hardships have stripped off confidence from some women whose menstrual flows are a nightmare due to inaccessibility of sanitary wear. Every month, women and girls around the world resort…
HARARE – This week we continue with interviews we carried with Zimbabweans in the Diaspora about what they miss from home. Journalist Henry Makiwa (UK) I left home over 15 years ago now. Unlike many Zimbabweans, for me the move was neither a daunting prospect nor complex at all. My childhood dream had always been…
HARARE – The year 2018 was eventful for the Election Resource Centre (ERC), a vibrant think tank and election advocacy organisation, as they started it by successfully lobbying for an extension of the voter registration process after the conclusion of the initially planned four phases done by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). The Daily News…
HARARE – With a clenched fist punching the air in a marquee-filled to capacity with men and women dressed in colourful Zanu PF attire, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga declared that they would be no challengers to his principal, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. One would have been forgiven to think that the country’s ruling party is going…
HARARE – When MDC deputy national chairperson Tendai Biti was arrested on August 10 as he fled into neighbouring Zambia for announcing false presidential results, he was brought to the Harare Magistrates’ Court where he was granted bail. The State did not oppose bail despite the fact Biti was arrested on the other side of…
HARARE – With a few days to go into the new year, the omens don’t look good politically in 2019, following the Zanu PF youth league’s ominous threats this week against the country’s opposition forces, the Daily News can report. In shocking remarks which have evoked bad memories of Zimbabwe’s body politic under former president…
