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Ablism must fall!
My blood boils when I think about how some people normalise the treatment of persons with disabilities as second class citizens in Zimbabwe even against the existence of government policy and pronounc...Published: 04 Nov 2023 at 10:02hrs | 14 | by Abraham Mateta (Mukoma A)
FC Platinum awarded points after Bosso found guilty
HIGHLANDERS has been found guilty of missile throwing by their fans in their abandoned Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match against FC Platinum at Mandava Stadium on April 23 and were fined US$6 0...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso blame police for Mandava violence
BULAWAYO giants Highlanders have blamed the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) for the violence that led to abandonment of their Castle Lager Premiership football match against FC Platinum at Mandava Stad...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 18:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso condemn pitch invasion
HIGHLANDERS have condemned pitch invasion by a section of fans and lashed out at "overzealous" police details for firing tear smoke resulting in abandonment of their Castle Lager Premier Soccer League...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
People living with albinism need help
Tinevimbo is an outgoing bubbling sixth-grader who finds it difficult to make friends. Most girls look at her mockingly and sometimes with utter disdain. During break time at school, no one wa...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 11:56hrs | 9 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Government demands albinism policy proposal
The government has instructed the National Disability Board to present a proposal for framing a policy that deals with albinism in the country.Addressing hundreds of people during the launch o...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 22:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Superstition: Africa's worst nightmare after poverty
Every part of the world has had their fair share of ignorance; especially, the naivety that accompanies the weird beliefs people grow into believing. But while other continents seem to be gradually mo...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 09:50hrs | | by Nimi Princewill
U.S. calls for stronger action against human trafficking
A senior United States Embassy official has called for sterner reaction by individuals to individuals and companies involved in human trafficking, among other measures to stamp the scourge that ...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Challenges faced by Disabled persons and how the Government can intervene
Background to ChallengesDisability is viewed different by different people based on their socio economic positions. For as Africans, disability is viewed as spiritual a curse despite medical e...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 06:20hrs | 41 | by Linda T. Masarira
Parliament roasts Zimdef boss over misplaced priorities
The University of Zimbabwe's (UZ) nanotechnology department has developed a highly effective lotion for albinos, but is failing to patent and commercialize it due to lack of funds.This was dis...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP's music deplores plight of war vets
Parliamentarian and former deputy minister of Justice, Fortune Chasi (Mazowe South MP Zanu-PF) has ventured into the world of music, singing against political violence, highlighting the plight of war ...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Albino attempted murderer gets life in jail
A court sitting in the northern Malawi’s city of Mzuzu has sentenced to life imprisonment 33-year-old Sam Kaumba for attempting to kill an albino.With panga knives in his hands ready to slic...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 16:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Malawi bans foreign witch doctors
Lilongwe - Malawi has banned foreign witch-doctors from plying their trade in the southern African nation in a bid to curb a rising wave of abductions, attacks and killings of albinos.So far 1...Published: 28 May 2016 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Activists in Malawi call for action over albino killings
Attacks against people with albinism this year have also been reported in Burundi, Mozambique and Zambia - Al Jazeera The targeting and killing of people with albinism in Malawi has a rea...Published: 07 May 2016 at 08:06hrs | | by AFP
Malawi Albinos hunting irks Zimbabwe MP
The hunting of Albino children in Malawi has irked the Zimbabwe member of the house of assembly Fortune Chasi who raised concerns over the reports that Albino children were being snatched from their m...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mob burns 7 to death over suspected witchcraft
Blantyre - A mob in Malawi's southern district of Nsanje burned seven people to death for allegedly possessing human bones for use in witchcraft, police said on Wednesday.The seven were "f...Published: 02 Mar 2016 at 11:06hrs | | by Agencies
KING Goodwill Zwelithini speak on killing of albinos
ZULU KING Goodwill Zwelithini has called for severe punishments for people who kill albinos for muthi.The king was delivering his keynote address to mark the opening of the KZN Legislature at ...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 12:36hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
UZ develops herbal cream for albinos
The University of Zimbabwe in partnership with local scientists has developed a herbal cream using nanotechnology to be used by albinos, a parliamentary committee has heard.Nanotechnology is t...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF to clamp down on sects promoting Satanism & homosexuality
ZANU-PF has threatened to clamp down and ban emerging religious groups and sects deemed to be promoting Satanism and homosexuality.Addressing delegates attending the party's 14th annual confe...Published: 18 Dec 2013 at 04:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Witches targets albinos
Albinos, whose body parts are prized by witch doctors, are being attacked in rising numbers in Tanzania, with children who are still alive having their limbs chopped off, the top United Nations (UN) H...Published: 06 Mar 2013 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
African intellectuals should be jailed
Africa, the lowliest of the continents is still nocturnal. It is in this disposition that it emerges a superpower, greater than the United States, Britain, and China combined. In the night, when the w...Published: 04 Apr 2012 at 04:59hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Miss Zimbabwe 2012 contestants unveiled
HARARE - Miss Zimbabwe Trust unveiled pictures of contestants of this year's pageant to be held on February 25 in Harare.The beauties mostly in their teens and 20s come from wide-rangin...Published: 29 Jan 2012 at 06:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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