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Baby-selling trio denied bail
A 47-year-old woman from Murehwa accused of helping her 16-year-old daughter sell her new-born baby for US$180 has been denied bail by Harare regional magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa.The woman, h...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:38hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant children, marital rape victims have a right to abortion, High Court rules
A law denying access to legal abortion for children below the age of 18 and married women who are victims of marital rape is unconstitutional, the Harare High Court has declared in a landmark ruling....Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 16:40hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Why Kamala Harris Lost and How Donald Trump Won: A Deep Analysis of the 2024 US Election
Today I am mourning, but this too shall favour me - Donald Trump's victory and Kamala Harris's loss carry lessons for us all. She joined the race just 107 days ago, facing a former president who began...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 12:43hrs | 1722 | by Ifeanyi Abraham
Man orders girlfriend to abort unwanted pregnancy
A 33-YEAR-OLD Plumtree man is regretting impregnating his girlfriend.The matter came to light at Plumtree magistrates courts on Friday ...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 07:43hrs | 590 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Democrats are trying to fool Americans about Kamala!
The allegories and stories we were taught at school were supposed to teach us something about life and the real world.In one of the masterpieces of all time, Mark Antony addresses Brutus, a co...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 13:02hrs | 704 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwean woman claims she was forced to abort 15 times
A HARARE woman has made sensational claims that she was forced to ABORT 15 TIMES and then suffered a miscarriage before she was dumped by her lover.Sharon Zhuwawo claims her lover's wife, Vale...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 15:31hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Girls as young as 10-years-old are having babies in SA
Shocking statistics revealed recently that over 4,000 girls in the Eastern Cape have given birth in the past four months.The Eastern Department of Health (DOH) said 97 of these girls were aged...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 21:06hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo nurse caught red-handed assisting school girl to do abortion
Police in Bulawayo have arrested a 16-year-old female high school student from a local school, together with a 26-year-old registered general nurse from Entumbane who was allegedly caught performing a...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 17:31hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Abortion leads to arrests in Bulawayo
Police in Bulawayo have arrested a 16-year-old girl and a 26-year-old registered nurse, Devine Dlodlo, for unlawfully terminating the girl's six-month pregnancy. According to Inspector Abednic...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Abortion pills sold like sweets on the streets of Bulawayo
ARE you aware of what your children are doing online?A thriving business for abortion pills is booming in the streets of Bulawayo and the rest of Zimbabwe as the illegal drugs are easily acces...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malayitsha jailed 42 years
An attempt by a 53-year-old Beitbridge-based cross-border transporter to get rich through raping his teenage daughter has seen him locked behind bars for the next 36 years.The man started rapi...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:55hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Secret underground abortion clinics thrive in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWEAN health professionals are profiting from the under-the-table sale of abortion pills due to low salaries and blocked migration routes.Abortion in Zimbabwe is illegal and punishable by...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:51hrs | 8 | by Dalphine Tagwireyi
80 000 Zimbabwean women abort each year, says USAid
AN estimated 60 000 to 80 000 women in Zimbabwe undergo illegal abortions annually, a new survey by the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) and Internews has revealed.Th...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Family crisis in the West
I KNOW this is sensitive ground and most people avoid commenting on, but I think it is too important to the world and our own families and society to just brush it aside as another feature of a ...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
An abortion right is not a right - THE AUTHENTICITY
The fetus should be considered part of the human species, as it shares our genetic code, and, if unimpeded in its development, will grow and mature into an adult human being.The debate over wh...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 13:57hrs | | by Tafara Makusha
Lupane State University senior staffer fingered in sex scandal
LUPANE State University (LSU) is investigating a case of a senior official who was allegedly found by a security guard in a campus room late at night with a female student on attachment in one of the ...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Married men drive illegal abortion stats
SOME married men are reportedly forcing their girlfriends to terminate pregnancies to avoid fathering children outside marriages and looking after illegitimate children.Illegal unsafe abortion...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman (42) Nabbed For Infanticide
Police in Mashonaland Central province have arrested Mejury Munyanyi (42) after she allegedly threw her baby into a blair toilet pit.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mu...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 17:19hrs | 8 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 70 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Prophet Edd Branson congratulates US Reverend Warnock on Georgia win
Harare based Flamboyant preacher Edd Branson has congratulated American Baptist pastor and politician Sen. Raphael Warnock who defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia r...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 13:31hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo police rescue 2 abandoned babies amid 'baby-dumping' spike
Police in Bulawayo rescued two babies found dumped at two locations in the city.Police said both tots, thought to be just two weeks old, have been hospitalised.In the first incident on...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 19:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni farm invader ordered to pay US$340,000 to Malunga and partners
THE Bulawayo High Court has ordered Zanu-PF linked Bulawayo businessman Dumisani Madzivanyathi to pay US$340,000 to Esidakeni farm owners in Nyamandlovu in Matebeleland North.Madzivanyathi and...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean asylum seeker married at age 9 and 13 earns court reprieve to remain in Ireland
A 29-year-old Zimbabwe woman married first at age nine and again at age 13 has earned a Court of Appeal reprieve in her bid to remain in Ireland.The woman – who is a lesbian – arrived here...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'1 500 Zimbabwe women die giving birth'
AT least four women are dying every day while giving birth in Zimbabwe and the country has recorded a staggering 121 078 deaths in the last 12 months, according to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Age...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'HIV mothers can breastfeed their babies'
FAITH Karuru (not her real name) was infected with HIV by her boyfriend, who fled to South Africa after committing a crime seven years ago."I discovered I was HIV positive when I went to regis...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe men soon on the pill
Scenario 1: "Hello, pretty, I want you to have a feel of what I possess. Don't fear, I'm on the pill. I'll give you lots of cash to buy the things you want and show off to your friends." An inveterate...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:17hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Abortion: Pro-Choice; Pro-Nothing; Pro-Life - Study the law with Blessed Mupatsi
THE DEONTOLOGY Assisted by: Nompilo P. Nkomo. In Zimbabwe in the late 19th century, through the promulgation of the Termination of Pregnancy Act...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:12hrs | 8 | by Blessed Mupatsi
War on shocking teen pregnancies
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tawananyasha (surname withheld) is six months pregnant with a man whose real name and age she does not know.The two met when the minor was a housemaid while the man was a gard...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:01hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to counter demos
THE Zanu-PF youth league has resolved to lobby the public service to only recruit party card-carrying members and graduates of the infamous Border Gezi programme as part of measures to counter demonst...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
University lecturer who led Esidakeni Farm invasion sued for US$340,000
A Zanu-PF-linked university lecturer who invaded a farm part-owned by a prominent human rights lawyer has been sued for loss of potential income to the tune of US$340,000.Dumisani Madzivanyati...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 20:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Student shares bed with giant snake
FEAR gripped students of Novena University, Ogume Delta State, in Nigeria, after a python invaded a female hostel in the school.The python was found early morning on the bed of an unnamed fema...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malunga's lawyers intensify court attle over seized Esidakeni farm
ATTORNEYS representing human rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga and his business partners are intensifying their court battle against Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu over the illegal sei...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 19:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni Farm owners demand compensation
Esidakeni Farm owners are demanding nearly US$340 000 in compensation for the destruction of their crops during the time Dumisani Madzivanyati 'illegally occupied' the farm.Esidakeni, also kno...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 18:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Girls abused, blinded by gifts'
MARRIED off at 15 years before eventually walking away, radio personality Ms Farai Magada has said many young girls are subjected to sexual abuse and suffer in silence just to be gifted with presents ...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blacks representation should be more than just wokeism and hypersensitivity - our values need representation too
In one of the popular interviews of our generation, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, told Oprah Winfrey about the importance of representation. I agree. But, by the same token, black people have ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 10:29hrs | | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
How are pro-ZANU PF church leaders any different from prophets of Baal who stood behind King Ahab and Jezebel?
Indeed, some may say, actually most of our morden-day Christian churches and their leaders, the world over, have become like the false prophets of Baal - ...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 08:28hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe teen pregnancy rate rises
ZIMBABWE'S teenage pregnancy rate has risen by two percent to 24 percent, with the majority being schoolgirls that are forced to drop out of school.The worrying trend has also led to debate ov...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Manama Mission Hospital rehab to be complete in two weeks
REHABILITATION works at Manama Mission Hospital are expected to be completed within two weeks, before work to upgrade the hospital begins.Sections of the hospital's critical buildings were ext...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:22hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Prophetess arrested over abortion
A self-proclaimed prophetess has been arrested after he allegedly gave a teenage girl muti to terminate her pregnancy causing her to bleed excessively from her private parts.The 17-year-old pr...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:00hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
No to abortion in Zimbabwe
IN recent months, there has been a lot of buzz about abortion. Tens of thousands of women in America have demonstrated as they felt outraged that their right to kill their unborn child is threatened....Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:30hrs | 9 | by Alexio Rashirai
HIV/Aids account for 50% teen deaths
HIV and Aids have emerged as the leading killers among adolescents, accounting for 50% of deaths, according to statistics released by sexual and reproductive health rights organisation, Advocacy Core ...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Turning the tide of moral degeneration
Sometimes one struggles with the concept of "societal progress" and its meaning. It loosely refers to "an advancement of major conditions of societies and people's lives in a direction considered to b...Published: 13 May 2021 at 12:24hrs | 3 | by Mpumelelo Ncube
Why Lobola Should not be Refundable - Love must never be refunded nor measured in monetary terms
The case of Lobola has generated a lot of interest amongst many Zimbabweans and many traditional leaders. The people of Zimbabwe put the proceedings in the public domain which they review the lawfulne...Published: 02 May 2021 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza and Denford Madekufamba
Bishop rapes congregant, attempts abortion
A LOCAL married church bishop is under fire for impregnating one of his congregants and allegedly trying to terminate the pregnancy on four different occasions.Bishop Nathan Tafadzwa Gwenyaya ...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Journalism, a new form of activism!
A polarised political environment breeds microcosms across all other subsectors of the community.As the old truism would put it, "a fis...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 00:56hrs | 1 | by Shelton Muchena
$1 000 fine for not wearing face mask
THE government has doubled the fine for not wearing a face mask or breaching Covid-19 restrictions to $1 000 from the previous $500.Maximum fines for criminal offences have been doubled to cop...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'2020 marks death of public health system'
In the midst of severe economic unrest, the Zimbabwean healthcare system has been disintegrating and coming apart at the seams over the years and 2020 took it a notch higher with the advent of COVID-1...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
378 Zimbabwean women die during child birth
A TOTAL of 378 women died while giving birth in Zimbabwe since January this year which translates to a maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of about 127 per 100 000 births. Of these women, 66 died at home w...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
National teenage pregnancy rate worrisome
ZIMBABWE records 70 000 illegal or unsafe abortions per year and one in every five girls drops out of school due to unwanted pregnancies. Statistics also indicate that the national teenage pregnancy r...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans await US election with apathy, anticipation
THE upcoming vote could mark a major shift in American politics, but it's unclear how the outcome will affect the two nations' frosty relationship.Whether the issue is the coronavirus pandemic...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 16:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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