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Christian group warns of crisis facing boy child

A Christian organisation, Men of Valour, Power and Vision (MVPV), has called on society to pay closer attention to the challenges facing the boy child, warning that silence and neglect are slowly destroying a generation.In an interview yes…

Published: 3 hrs ago | | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo faces surge in child suicides

Bulawayo is grappling with a disturbing rise in child suicides, prompting urgent calls from community leaders, civic organisations, and lawmakers for coordinated action to tackle the crisis.The recent death of a 14-year-old girl from Emakh…

Published: 3 hrs ago | 1 | by Staff reporter

Father dumps girl child for having sex

A 50-year-old man from Chipinge, Nicolous Bhebhe, appeared in court after dumping his 15-year-old daughter at his parents' home, accusing her of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old neighbour.Chipinge Magistrate Nixon Mangoti fo…

Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:10hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter

Family in soup for marrying off underage girl

A family in Mapanzure, under Headman Matavire in Chief Murinye's jurisdiction, is facing investigation after reportedly marrying off their 16-year-old daughter following her return home late.The girl, who was in Form 3 at Makoni Secondary …

Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:27hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter

Lionel Mazarire elected 33rd Child president of Zimbabwe

 Chinhoyi Technical High School's Lower Six pupil, Lionel Mazarire, has been elected as Zimbabwe's 33rd Child President, pledging to champion the rights of children nationwide and ensure child-focused policies move beyond words into i…

Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:31hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe to roll out 1 laptop per child initiative to bridge digital divide

The Government of Zimbabwe is advancing efforts to enhance digital learning by rolling out the One Laptop Per Child initiative and providing annual training in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital literacy to more than 10,000 teachers …

Published: 28 May 2025 at 11:00hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter

Poverty drives early marriages in Mzingwane

The prevalence of early marriages in Empisini, Ward 14, has become a pressing issue, as many young girls are being forced into marriage at a young age due to harsh economic conditions. This troubling trend highlights the grim reality faced…

Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 21:02hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter

Cop threatens to kill wife, child

A Harare police officer, Tinashe Chagonda, was recently taken to court by his wife, Mako Mushure, who has accused him of threatening to kill her and their son. In her plea for a protection order, Mushure described Chagonda's abusive behavi…

Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:56hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe Prisons assures safety of children in jail

The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) has reassured the public about the safety of children in its facilities following concerns raised about a one-year-old baby living in prison with their mother, a detained Citizens Coalit…

Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 06:42hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter

More than 100 street children roam Bulawayo

Bulawayo is experiencing a troubling rise in the number of children leaving their homes to live and work on the streets, often turning to illegal activities such as drug and substance abuse. Over 100 street children, primarily teenagers, a…

Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:40hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter

Businessman hires hitman to kill child

PROMINENT Headlands businessman, John Madondo, who operates shops at Eagle Nest area, is embroiled in an attempted murder for rituals storm after he allegedly hired a villager to kill a person and bring to him the head.This emerged during …

Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 15:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

4 children suffocate to death during child play

Four children suffocated to death yesterday during child play in a non-runner car which was parked at a house in Hopely Zone 1, Harare.National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the case. "The four juveniles …

Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:23hrs | | by Staff reporter

Child marriage victim succumbs to labour complications

Zandile Sibanda clung desperately to her 14-year-old daughter, Sikhulile Sibanda, who had fallen victim to an early child marriage, as she took her final breath after suffering from a severe illness for eight months as a result of giving b…

Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Couple fight over child's antics

A HARARE man has been physically abusing his wife accusing her of having failed to stop her daughters' wayward behaviour. Amisha Chiwetu from Glen View told Harare magistrate, Sharon Mashavira, that her marriage with Wunganayi Chiwetu…

Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 12:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Child's coffin exhumed from grave, corpse unaccounted for

A Chigodora family is in hot soup after it discreetly reburied its six-year-old child's empty coffin following the vandalisation of the grave, coffin and body.Three years down the line, the whereabouts of the corpse that was dug up soon af…

Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 12:45hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Journalist appeals for US$15,000 for child's heart operation

A CHRONICLE staffer, Mashudu Netsianda is appealing for funds to enable his three-month-old baby to undergo open heart surgery in India.The baby was born with a congenital heart defect called Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), a birth defect that …

Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:14hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Child dies at clinic gate after 11 hour wait

IN a heart wrenching incident, a one-year six month-old child from Silobini Village died at the gate of Mhlahlandlela Clinic in Matobo, Matabeleland South province where her parents had waited for about 11 hours.During the long wait they p…

Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

9 year-old girl 8 months pregnant

IN what could be the first in the country, a nine-year-old girl is admitted to the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) as she is 33 weeks pregnant and is expected to give birth at the institution.This comes a few weeks after a 13-year-old girl…

Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:43hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa attacks Zanu-PF for 'child abuse and terrorising citizens'

CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa has chided Zanu-PF for roping in school children to participate in just ended anti-sanctions events held across the country.He said coercion of pupils into activities whose origins…

Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mixed reactions to age of consent ruling

LAWYERS yesterday reacted differently to the Constitutional Court's Tuesday ruling that raised the age of consent for sexual relations from 16 to 18, to meet the minimum age of marriage as set in the country's supreme law.Some applauded th…

Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Child marriages of concern in rural Gwanda

A NUMBER of cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and child marriages are going unreported in rural parts of Gwanda as facilities such as police stations and health facilities are located far from where most villagers live, officials have s…

Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:08hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean 'child trafficker' found with 7 kids in Botswana

A 29-year-old Zimbabwean man has been arrested in Botswana after he was found travelling to South Africa with seven children in a suspected human trafficking case.Eric Mpofu, who is unemployed, appeared before a Francistown Magistrate, Cha…

Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:59hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Unicef red flags spike in child marriages

EARLY child marriages have reportedly shot to alarming levels across the country since the imposition of COVID-19-induced lockdowns from March last year, with civil society groups demanding an urgent end to the vice.A recent survey by the …

Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:47hrs | 3 | by Staff rpeorter

Bulawayo accounts for most child headed families

BULAWAYO has the highest number of child headed families across all urban centres in the country, resulting in wayward behaviour. The Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) 2020 Urban Livelihoods Assessment report released re…

Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Sugar beans can give beef a run for its taste

The kitchen place is a very interesting culinary laboratory, it be makeshift, modern or rural set up. Sometimes food burning to cinder whilst both eyes and attention of the cook are on smartphone chatting the day away. Sugar beans can be g…

Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:01hrs | 2 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa

Educating the girl child is educating the nation

Their figures mere silhouettes in the pre-dawn 'darkness', the trio always emerge from the east going to the west. Don't they say the three wisemen came from the East, no wonder these three young women also trudge from that side. The eleva…

Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:01hrs | 2 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa

The end did not justify the means

Source of the tragic altercation is still shrouded in mystery but a young married man died. Rumour has it that, supported by gossip, that a somehow handicapped brother (cousin) asked the young man to prepare a 'deceased' but diseased oxhea…

Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:59hrs | 3 | by Tondo

The fight against corruption is everyone's child

Brown envelopes, graft and so on, the names are many but the offence is the same, corruption. There is always a witness to murder, not reporting it is partaking and complicity. Children of God, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe His Exc…

Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:59hrs | | by Tondo

Matebeleland South has highest child starvation rates

ONLY 36 percent of nursing mothers from Gwanda district adhere to exclusive breastfeeding for their new born babies amid reports that Matebeleland South province has the country's highest starvation rates affecting children under five. Exc…

Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Empower the girl child through education

Child prostitution and drug abuse, the rising social ills in towns and cities, border posts and growth points included. Juveniles are going 'commando' at night with all caution thrown to the wind. Snorting drugs and sipping alcohol for tha…

Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 21:04hrs | 3 | by Thomas Murisa

Zanu-PF MP offers ZWL$50 child maintenance

Chirumanzu Zibagwe MP, Prosper Machando (Zanu-PF) stunned the court early this week when he offered to pay ZWL$50 for the upkeep of a four-year-old child he sired with a Mvuma woman.Clara Taruberekera had dragged the MP to court claiming Z…

Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Child with male, female genitals operated on

DOCTORS at Harare Central Hospital have successfully operated on a 10-year-old child from Tsholotsho who was born with both female and male sexual organs. The now "complete girl" (name withheld for ethical reasons), who had a rare conditio…

Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:24hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Pregnant woman wants to divorce after discovering what hubby wants to name baby

A pregnant woman is considering divorcing her husband after discovering what he wants to call their unborn baby. The 23-year-old is seven months pregnant with the couple's first child, but they are struggling to agree on a name. Her husban…

Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter

Child support lands pastor in dock

A MAN of the cloth and founder of Living Sanctuary Ministries has been dragged to the Maintenance Court by his ex-wife for the upkeep of their child.Thandekile Nsingo was claiming an upward variation from $105 to $295 for their child sayin…

Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter

Girl child empowerment: Everyone's duty

ZIMBABWE Women In Politics Alliance commemorates the International Day of the Girl Child by celebrating the 1,1 billion girls in the world and encouraging them to dream and aspire to be whoever they want to be. Today's girl, is tomorrow's …

Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:59hrs | 15 | by Linda Masarira

Child not yours, wife shocks hubby in court

A MUTARE man was left shocked recently after his wife revealed to him that he was not the father of the child whom he believed was his for the past five years.Diana Chikati dragged her husband, Trymore Chabwana, to the Mutare Civil Courts …

Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's 'love child' fined for disorderly conduct

A 31-YEAR-OLD Harare man who allegedly stormed into President Emerson Mnangagwa's residence claiming to be his biological son was yesterday fined $20 by magistrate Josephine SandeBrian Chitembeya was charged with disorderly conduct, but in…

Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Abusive small house jailed 1 month

A TROUBLESOME small house, who threatened and insulted her former lover, who sired a child with her has been slapped with one month in jail.Perseverance Ncube (23) of Cowdray Park in Bulawayo, a nurse at a local hospital, pleaded guilty to…

Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 04:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Where art thou my child if you are my child?

If ever you were born, you were born during the year 2000 in January or February. Your mother said I wasn't the father, your father was  the other guy who she was also involved with at the same time I was involved with her. I have my …

Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 13:11hrs | 1 | by Veap Ndlovu

Headmaster seeks custody of children

A local school head has approached the civil court in Harare seeking the custody of their four children he had with his ex-wife.Cornelius Chimwanda dragged Emillia Benhura to court where he expressed dissatisfaction over the manner their c…

Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 07:42hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter

The Day of the African Child Commemorations: My Personal views?

The struggle is far from over! Rather we are still in the tunnel and light is still far from sight. No solution in sight! Realisation of children's rights is still a pipe dream given the extent of atrocities being committed against childre…

Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 15:25hrs | 1 | by Johanne Mhlanga

Child porn distributor in court

A 29-YEAR-OLD Durban man believed to be the mastermind in an international distribution of child pornography images appeared at the Durban Magistrates Court on Thursday.The man was arrested on Tuesday at his Berea flat after an extensive i…

Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 09:41hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter

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