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When dark babies are not good enough
For Ms Ntokozo Gumbo, after successfully achieving her desired complexion following years of investing in skin care to lighten her skin tone, she was disappointed when she gave birth to a baby heavily...Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 07:10hrs | 354 | by Andile Tshuma
Miss South Africa Contestant Faces Identity Theft Allegations and Online Abuse
A major scandal has erupted in South Africa after Miss South Africa contestant Chidimma Adetshina withdrew from the competition amid allegations of identity theft involving her mother. The ...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 16:51hrs | 909 | by Staff Reporter
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
Top 10 political Mamparas and Screw-ups in 2023
The political landscape in Zimbabwe has witnessed its fair share of controversies and questionable decisions over the years. In 2023, several political figures made headlines for their actions and dec...Published: 21 Dec 2023 at 10:58hrs | 20 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwean-born director suspended over anti-Israel posts
Ofcom's online safety supervision director has been suspended after anti-Israel comments were posted on her Instagram account.Fadzai Madzingira's private account posted messages after the Hama...Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 14:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Busisiwe Mkhwebane merely annoyed agents of white monopoly capital
In my view, both Tina Joemat-Pettersson (may her soul repose peacefully) and Busisiwe Mkhwebane are victims of a system that lives off the subjugation of women, where women are treated very differentl...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 17:18hrs | 1 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Number of female politicians set to drop
The number of female candidates for the August 23 harmonised elections is set to drop significantly this year due to several challenges including the exorbitant nomination fees set by the Zimbabwe Ele...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's female politicians moan over cyber-bullying
ZIMBABWEAN female politicians have complained of cyber-bullying ahead of the August 23 harmonised elections, saying they are subjected to greater scrutiny and criticism than their male counterparts wh...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira declares Mnangagwa challenge in presidential election
Outspoken feminist and politician Linda Masarira has declared her intentions to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the 2023 presidential election set for 23 August.The leader of the opp...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 18:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Feminists have lost track of what they stand for
Disclaimer: This article is written from a male perspective with a light-hearted tone. It is not meant to trivialize or dismiss the important issues surrounding femin...Published: 19 May 2023 at 13:53hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Virginity and the Johanne Marange religious customs
THE state has outlawed virginity testing as a human rights violation.However, it is surprising to note that Johanne Marange Apostolic Church (JMAC) still teaches and conducts mandatory virgini...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Matthew Mare
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
Lessons from March by-elections
WITH the support from Diakonia, the Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) from April 08 and 12 2022 conducted capacity-building training in transformative feminist leadership...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:54hrs | 1 | by Walpe
Street mural exposes Zimbabwe's divided society
THE Shona and the Ndebele are Zimbabwe's two most dominant ethnic groups. Explaining the ever-present tension between them, historian Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni points to the abuse of the post-colonial st...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti
Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa pregnant from donated sperm?
Former radio and TV star Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa is expecting her first baby at 33 - with a sperm donor.Parirenyatwa said she took the unconventional route to motherhood after getting alarming ...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 08:24hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Clandestine dealings with Mnangagwa! Thokozani, you stripped your dignity
Drear Dr Thokozani Khuphe, Much as activists would like to assist women against gender discrimination in public spaces, we find your case too complex to intervene. We do not have the loci stan...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 16:24hrs | 12 | by Nomazulu Thata
International Youth Day: Youth VOW to transform food systems for Human and Planetary Health
Youths were urged and vowed to take matters into their hands and not to shun agriculture as a business during the ActionAid and Global Platforms organized 2021 International Youth Day Virtual Commemor...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Alfred Towo
Zuma roars loudly from the cells
The system of imprisoning former leaders in the world was the prerogative of the French from the time of Napoleon to Sarkozi. France has become accustomed to putting former leaders on trial, but the w...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 16:57hrs | 10 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Cabinet meetings by Ndaba Sibanda: A review by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
The book kicks off with a scene featuring a technology-crazy old man who is drinking with a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. The old man's table manners do not endear him to the girl either....Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 12:13hrs | 6 | by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
Angela Merkel and Liz Cheney are conservatives, but their political values and principles are worth of gold!
We are also called anarchists; our socialistic values about removing a capitalist world to an order that puts emphasis on humanity and not profit. Activists defy status core, demand a remake of our tu...Published: 13 May 2021 at 22:03hrs | 9 | by Nomazulu Thata
In Europe desperation of some male-Africans is horrendous and pathetic
Seek first the advice from Prophet Makandiwa, make a pilgrimage to Nigeria and seek audience with TB Joshua immediately; With prayers you will win the 2019 EU parliamentary elections; said the young N...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 17:24hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
President Magufuli: Letter to Prof. Lumumba of Kenya Cc. Energy Mutodi; Bcc African Presidents
Dear Professor Lumumba, Comrade Energy Mutodi is having his last laugh: he was spot on. He told us the bare truth about the President of Tanzania; the way he is handling the global pandemic wa...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe political terrain tough for disabled persons
DISABLED women, especially in rural set ups, aspiring to take up leadership positions are facing a double blow to their ambitions.Barbra Nyangairi, Deaf Zimbabwe Trust executive director, said...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi embarrasses the presidium
The vice president's power to lead comes from a ceremonial reverence Zimbabweans grant their presidents. To deserve the reverence, a vice president must act as a steward of the dignity and stature of ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'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
Dr. Masimba Mavaza, please do not excite!
I have hardly recovered from the last article you wrote on Bulawayo24: an article that sees female gender as unreasonable and out of sic with African traditions and culture. Here we go again today: "M...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 20:57hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
4 reasons why General Solomon Mujuru didn't want Mnangagwa to be President
Academic and Biographer Miles Tendi has written four reasons why the late General Solomon Mujuru did not want President Emmerson Mnangagwa to assume the post of Presidency. Tendi was respondin...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 12:16hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Heroic mother who saved baby from crocodile grip honoured
CHIREDZI woman Morina Musisinyani (30) who, in April this year saved her three-year-old son from the jaws of a crocodile, was honoured on Friday by a feminist organisation.Whispers, whose lead...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni is an MDC-affiliated Chief and so can do no wrong
The discussion around the Chief Ndiweni case is so disappointing I am going to start my own here. In fact, I am slowly coming to the conclusion that I probably should start writing public think pieces...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 18:01hrs | | by Petina Gappa
The entire cabinet must be reshuffled for the good of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe needs a Major reshuffle as soon as now to get it moving again. In the inauguration speech the previous year ED had pledged to hit the ground running. The team has been assembled for the runni...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:05hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'MDC has no hand in sanctions'
The Daily News on Sunday Assistant Editor Maxwell Sibanda caught up with journalist, and human rights advocate Grace Kwinje who is the MDC Alliance's European Union representative based in Brussels. S...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 17:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government values women through empowerment
As the world celebrates International Women's Day on 8 March 2019, it is imperative to note that the Government of Zimbabwe has been playing a critical role in empowering its women from all the differ...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 22:23hrs | | by Chido Chikuni
Senior ministers to be rested in this weeks reshuffle
Zimbabwe will have a First reshuffle this week since elections in July. In the inauguration speech the previous year ED had pledged to hit the ground running. The ground is available the running has s...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 20:41hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Spiritual significance of lobola/ roora
Calls to abolish the payment of lobola/roora are associated with some feminist perspective, which decries it as the major cause of inequalities between the sexes. Arguments against it are well establi...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Know your Authors in Family and Religious Studies: Wilson Zivave
The New Curriculum in Zimbabwe has seen students and teachers alike struggle to have access to teaching aids particularly reading material, thereby relying on internet sources. In a number of circumst...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:30hrs | 1 | by Brian Maregedze
'Mnangagwa 'faking' concern over police brutality'
OPPOSITION parties reacted with fury Monday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa appeared to suggest that he was not aware of the that police and soldiers were beating up civilians around the country....Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:19hrs | | by newzimbabwe.com
House of Stone reflects on 'true' Gukurahundi events
THIRTY-ONE years since the signing of the Unity Accord, Gukurahundi remains unresolved, highly divisive and emotive - a scar on the conscience of the nation.Post-November 2017 when Zimbabwe un...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 10:19hrs | 1 | by Butholezwe Kgosi Nyathi
Seek first advice from Prophet Makandiwa; only then can you win EU parliamentary elections!
Seek first the advice from Prophet Makandiwa, make a pilgrimage to Nigeria and seek audience with TB Joshua; only then are you going to win the European parliamentary elections; said the young Nigeria...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 15:42hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Murdered Lucia Duve remembered
Hundreds of mourners gathered at St Mary's Cathedral Basilica Parish in Bulawayo yesterday as hundreds of mourners gathered to pay their last respects to Lucia Duve (37) who lost her life in an allege...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 08:25hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe needs #MeToo moment
Thirty years after her iconic debut novel, Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga is back with a final look at her heroine's harrowing journey through the Mugabe years, hoping to spark debate about viol...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 07:49hrs | | by AFP
Why marginalise women in politics?
WOMEN in Zimbabwe continue to suffer from historical marginalisation and structural inequalities that exist in the political, social and economic spheres. Historically, colonisers made sure that women...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Linda Masarira
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
Zimbabwe's (Criminal) Record Check!
Chronicling abuses on women in Zimbabwe Dear Zimbabwean Women, It is high time we chronicled all abuses...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa's utterances about women reflection of the society
Women rights organisations and politicians have condemned MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's penchant for denigrating women saying this was reflective of an unrepentant male society trapped in a tim...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elections in retrospect: Women's perspectives
Women's organisations have concurred over the need to promote constitutional literacy of women in Zimbabwe, lobby for more seats for women in parliament and in public offices as well as set up gender ...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by UN Women
When a woman says NO it is a No! Period!
This is the strong message that President Ramaphosa of South Africa gave to the women of South Africa who demonstrated at the Union buildings on the 2nd of August 2018, commemorating the past event of...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Do not kill a dead snake!
This is what former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma said in reference to Thabo Mbeki who was voted out of the party and government as party leader and president of South Africa in Polokwane. This...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 15:49hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Dicey intersections: The real problem with the #ChigumbaChallenge
LAST week in the wake of the Zimbabwean presidential elections, Twimbos (Zimbabweans on Twitter/social media) woke up to a cracking spread of the #ChigumbaChallenge. These were memes around Zimbabwe E...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:44hrs | | by Precious Simba
UN rights office appeals for peaceful Zimbabwe elections amid reports of intimidation
GENEVA - Ahead of the 30 July poll, OHCHR spokesperson Liz Throssell said that UN staff were not in a position to verify the reports, which have nonetheless surfaced in a context of a "widening of the...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by APO
In Attorney Jessie Majome and Hilma Shindondola-Mote, Meme Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela Mandela lives on!
It is barely three months when we celebrated the life of of our heroine Ma Winnie Mandela in style: we never cried our eyes out mourning Winnie Mandela; instead, we had the opportunity to reflect on h...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 13:53hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
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