Investigate Zimbabwe's Virginity Tests

(Bulawayo, 06-04-12) Allegations that girls, some barely teenagers, at a primary school in Zimbabwe were stripped in front of their male counterparts while adults examined their private parts from des...

The Way I See It - Women Only Voters' Roll

Clara Zetkin (1857 -1933) is a name that may not mean much or be known to many in Zimbabwe, yet she was the German politician and defender of the rights of women who started the International Women's ...

Give Zimbabwe's Poor Mine Workers Shares Too

Bulawayo -These are times when I would not like to be a Prime Minister or President of any country in the world. Leaders in the West are facing mounting economic challenges that have already influence...

Ban Torture in Zimbabwe

If fear of torture was an Olympic event, Zimbabwe would have a realistic chance of medalling. The flag would be raised with the red stripes signifying the blood of our fellows gracing the arena with n...

Take toddlers out of prison and devolve the justice system

The shocking revelations by Zimbabwe's Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs that some 30 toddlers are incarcerated with their mothers in Zimbabwe's squalid prisons calls for urgent remedial intervent...

Zimbabweans invited to America's Facebook Diplomacy

The walled United States of America embassy in Harare is a building that has all the whole marks of "out of bounds unless invited." For years, ordinary Zimbabweans like me have seen the embassy as a p...

The Way I See It - Zimbabwe's Education Ministry needs urgent help

Bulawayo - Last week, I wrote about the distressing case of children with disability in Zimbabwe and asserted that their rights are not being observed.ZUPA, the non-political civil society or...

Zimbabwe's Children with Disability Rights Neglected

(09-01-12, Bulawayo) Stigmatised by part of an increasingly intolerant society, neglected by a state that is short of resources and facing potential abuse in institutions, the lives of Zimbabwean c...