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Merry Chiwenga-Mubayiwa: A spot-on definition of Gender-Based Violence
The physical pain that Merry is going through is not possible to share. However emotional torture is possible and empathize genuinely with Merry Chiwenga. She is going through a physical and mental to...Published: 11 Dec 2024 at 13:45hrs | 386 | by Nomazulu Thata
Eunice Njovana vies for CEDAW top post
Zimbabwean women are consistently breaking barriers by attaining leadership positions in international and regional institutions. Notably, Eunice Njovana, a distinguished feminist, is vying fo...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 12:47hrs | 3 | by Tonderai Ndoro
Harmful practices rob girls of their rights
Zimbabwe has ratified various international conventions and declarations on gender equality in its effort to create an enabling environment for the attainment of equity and equality between women and ...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 08:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Infertility: The Cindrella of Reproductive Health
Our hearts melted with joy when we saw a recent article from Healthtimes which stated that Zimbabwe will soon have a low cost public IVF centre that will ...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 14:24hrs | 1 | by Heaven Munyuki
Zimbabwe candidate for top UN body ready for elections
Former chairperson of the Anti-Domestic Violence Council, Mrs Eunice Njovana, is ramping up her preparations for next month's elections for a seat on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Underfunding irks Nyoni
SITHEMBISO Nyoni, the Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) minister, is one of Zimbabwe's longest serving Cabinet ministers. But she has the hardest assignment in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government ...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:40hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to Guduza Churchill, President of MLF
Dear Comrade, I hope I find you well dear comrade. How I wish you could remove the name Churchill from the birth certificate and remain with Mpiyesizwe Guduza. Proper revolution will take plac...Published: 18 May 2021 at 17:33hrs | 4 | by Nomazulu Thata
A call for the condemnation of the violation of the human rights of prisoners by the Zimbabwe regime
Greetings to all! A few days ago, members of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) were released on bail from incarceration at Zimbabwe's notorious Khami and Mlondolozi prisons. No sooner had the...Published: 18 May 2021 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza - MLF President
Young female politicians face sexual harassment
Aspiring young Zimbabwean female politicians continue to face sexual harassment among several impediments in their quest to enter the political arena.Zanu-PF Seke-Chikomba women's quota Member...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Padare advocates for female vice-president
Female participation in politics has remained a contentious issue with various women organisations and pressure groups pushing for adherence to the Zimbabwean constitution that stipulates equal repres...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Heroine Nyaradzai Gumbodzvanda: Her speech at Amnesty International on Gender-based violence was heroic!
"Our language use perpetuate violence: we must refrain from language use that does not provide power to communities" said Madam Gumbodzvanda.Amai Gumbodzvanda made one of the most powerful spe...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 22:12hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
'Mgodoyi' is Jonathan Moyo's predicate he used to express disgust!
It is one of Professor Moyo's terms to express anything disgusting him.Umgodoyi is an overly thin malnourished dog whose mouth unendingly oozies slummy saliva, a sign of obvious illness relate...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Can Zimbabwe Diaspora Women in UK allow trade talks, with a country abusing its women?
ZHRO (Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation) Leadership has rallied its members to join the MDC (Movement For Democratic Change) (Zimbabwe's main Opposition party) in the UK to Protest the arrival of a h...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 12:55hrs | | by ZHRO
Zimbabwe Vice President guilty?
When domestic crime was meted brutally against our own, our fellow woman; the Honourable Tambudzani Mohadi, we waited to see if the arm of government, the police were dutifully going to take state act...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Patriarchal dominance, misogyny in Zimbabwe's political economy
WOMEN in Zimbabwe constitute about 54% of the population of about 14 million people. In the just-ended 2018 harmonised elections, statistics compiled by Women In Politics Support Unit (WiPSU) indicate...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Linda Masarira
Liberate and free the last colony of Africa
Dear Mr. S. Sibanda, "Very true that woman are marginalized" by S. Sibanda That was your article on the 8th of August 2018 on Bulawayo24: I wish to express my sincere gratitude for the...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 17:45hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe 2018 elections marginalised women
The recent general elections in Zimbabwe provide a classic case study for marginalisation of women in key political process in any given country. The elections, in which women were largely condemned t...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 07:57hrs | 11 | by Makho-Precious Moyo
Bulawayo Women! Boycott Highlanders-Bosso Games!
This misogynist: woman-hater Mandla "Lulu" Mpofu must be taught a lesson by the very women he hates apparently with passion. Mandla thinks a car is better than his wife. He manhandles his wife for jus...Published: 29 May 2018 at 16:44hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
'Mnangagwa's Cabinet remains an old people's home'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet announced late on Thursday night remains a chauvinistic and "old people's home'' where there is no space for youth, women and progressive technocrats, socia...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 13:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Women In Politics Alliance statement on assault of Thokozani Khupe
It is in a bad mood accompanied by good faith that I prescribe this article seeking to touch on the nerves of targeted violence towards women on the Zimbabwean political landscape.ZWIPA castig...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 11:37hrs | | by Linda T Masarira
Girl-Students are cooking meals for their boyfriend in Zambia: First letter to the women of Zimbabwe
International Women's Day 2017 Of late the social media was telling us big time what is going on in Zambia: the dear neighbours north of us. The young women are going traditional: they are coo...Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 16:46hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Our traditions are still backward: some of them!
A lot has been said about violence against women and rightly so. It is a topic that has to be dealt with now that we once again recognize the 16 days as from the 25th of November, the Internation...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 21:17hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 2016
Even in death the women are violated in Zimbabwe. I have in mind not so long ago, a body of a woman sex worker who was murdered, her body was found alongside the road, was photographed and was ditched...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 11:22hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Women of Zimbabwe unite and document a Manifesto for Women
While we were in the middle of celebrating the golden 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, we recognised too that also the 29th of November was a month that was set up to give a deep tho...Published: 27 Dec 2015 at 18:00hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Gender based violence against women! All political parties are to take the flake and not only Dr Grace!
Dear Mr/Ms Chimanzi I am replying to your today's article: Grace Mugabe the biggest violator in fight against gender based violence by Thamarie Chimanzi MDC Women Assembly Spokesper...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 20:26hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
RDZ position paper on the imperatives of a national democratic renewal in Zimbabwe
RENEWAL DEMOCRATS OF ZIMBABWE POSITION PAPER ON THE IMPERATIVES OF A NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC RENEWAL IN ZIMBABWEINTRODUCTIONRenewal Democrats of Zim...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 14:21hrs | 1 | by RDZ
MDC Youth Assembly Statement on The Day of The African Child
On 16 June every year, the African Union celebrates the Day of the African Child (DAC) in commemoration of the 1976 massacre of school children in Soweto, South Africa who were protesting against ...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 11:26hrs | | by Brighton Makunike
Interrogating pre-paid water metering as a policy option
With the dawn of the World Water Day on 22 March 2015 I felt compelled to interrogate pre-paid water metering as a policy option. To do justice to this policy discourse, I will try to weigh merits an...Published: 21 Mar 2015 at 14:09hrs | | by Timothy Chitambure
'Setting a bait for women's vote'
As we enter 2015 women must reflect on the milestones reached in our quest to attain the critical question of inclusive development as a country, it is worrisome to find that we have yet again gone 10...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 10:37hrs | 4 | by Ms M.Gumede
Early child marriage unchanged - RAU
RECENT research findings by local think-tank Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) have revealed that although government has ratified most international human rights instruments to curb early child marria...Published: 28 Apr 2014 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
International Women's Day - Inspiring Change
On the 8th of March, Zimbabwean women join women throughout the world to celebrate International women's day under different themes. From the various themes running this year, I have selected "...Published: 05 Mar 2014 at 22:49hrs | | by Hlaleleni Karanda
Zim abortions kills 20 000 women every year - report
AS MUCH AS 20,000 Zimbabwean women are dying annually during illegal abortions and child birth, a new report by 27 non-governmental organisations says.Abortion is illegal in Zimbabwe, and the...Published: 21 Apr 2012 at 15:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
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