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Number of women filing to end marriages soars
Zimbabwe is witnessing a sharp increase in the number of women initiating divorce, according to the latest national data. A new survey shows that nearly 100,000 more women are now divorced or separate...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 14:39hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's poor women bear more children than the rich
A landmark report released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has shed light on disparities in fertility rates among Zimbabwean women, revealing that poorer women tend to have significantly...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:26hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces fertility decline
Zimbabwe is witnessing a steady decline in fertility rates as more citizens struggle to achieve their reproductive goals, a trend that mirrors global patterns highlighted in the 2024 State of the Worl...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:09hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Manicaland has thinnest women in Zimbabwe
A recent report by the Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) has revealed that Manicaland Province is among the regions with the highest prevalence of thinness among women aged between 20 and ...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 18:29hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's falling birth rate a burden
Two seemingly ordinary moments tell a deeper story of Zimbabwe's shifting reproductive landscape. In Harare, a woman welcomes her second child five years after her first - exactly as planned. In rural...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:07hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Divorce among Zimbabwean women up by nearly 100,000 in 10 years
Zimbabwe has witnessed a significant increase in the number of divorced or separated women over the past decade, according to the newly released 2025 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS). The...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 17:05hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Mobile phones, beds, and hoes top Zimbabwe household ownership
Mobile phones, beds, and agricultural tools such as axes and hoes are the most commonly owned household items in Zimbabwe, according to the latest Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) for 202...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:16hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
70% of Zimbabwean women lose virginity before age 20
A recent national survey has brought to light significant trends in the sexual behavior of Zimbabwean women, showing that nearly 70 percent lose their virginity before reaching the age of 20. These fi...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 14:55hrs | 917 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean women make gains in property ownership
Women in Zimbabwe are making significant strides in securing access to economic resources such as land, property, and digital financial services, according to findings from the 2023–2024 Zimbabwe De...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 13:30hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
27% of Zimbabwean children suffer stunted growth
At least 27% of children under the age of five in Zimbabwe suffer from stunting, a form of impaired growth caused by chronic malnutrition, poverty, and repeated infections, according to the Zimbabwe D...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 12:05hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's women in serious bedroom drought crisis
A startling revelation from the latest 2023–24 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) has lifted the lid on a silent but significant crisis affecting Zimbabwean marriages: a growing number of...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 18:30hrs | 2718 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's medical aid coverage crashes to just 4%
Zimbabwe's healthcare system faces a deepening crisis as health insurance coverage has plummeted to an all-time low, with just 4% of the population currently enrolled in any form of medical aid. The s...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 18:29hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo tops women's alcohol consumption in Zimbabwe?
Women in Bulawayo are consuming more alcohol than women in any other province in Zimbabwe, according to findings from the newly released 2023–2024 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS)....Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 18:29hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo tops Zimbabwe education rankings
Bulawayo has emerged as the most educated province in Zimbabwe, according to findings from the 2023–2024 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS), which also underscores a significant gap in ed...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 09:29hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Half of Zimbabwean men unmarried
Nearly half of Zimbabwean men aged between 15 and 49 years have never been married, according to the latest data released by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat). This statistic was revea...Published: 03 Jun 2025 at 10:20hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
6,000 teenagers were impregnated in Matebeleland South last year
Approximately 6,000 teenagers from Matebeleland South fell pregnant last year, with Beitbridge and Insiza districts recording the highest numbers, according to recent statistics. The province also doc...Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 12:52hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa vows to run Zimbabwe on Christian values
Some Zimbabweans have lambasted the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) for declaring in its election manifesto that it intends to run the country on the basis of Christian values.Party leader...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:39hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean candidates solicit church votes ahead of Zimbabwe elections
Zimbabwe's major political parties are turning to religion in a bid to secure votes in the general elections next month.Zanu-PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) are attending church...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 18 | by Staff reporter
Masowe woman in record breaking home deliveries
AT 30, Vongai Matara Gondo, a midwife of the Johanne Masowe ye Chishanu apostolic sect, has helped 157 women to deliver.Vongai says midwifery is her calling.Despite the high risks that...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo among key HIV hotspots
HARARE, Bulawayo and three other towns have been identified as HIV hotspots in Zimbabwe by an international study. Avert, a United Kingdom-based research organisation said Bulawayo, Harare, Ru...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Does Zimbabwe have a higher literacy rate than SA?
South Africa is set to hold national elections in 2019, a year the ruling African National Congress marks its 107th anniversary.Radio 702 talk show host Bruce Whitfield spoke to Bonang Mohale,...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reportere
Pregnant women flood Harare hospital
Harare Central Hospital is struggling to cope with a surging number of women seeking free maternal health services — creating bed shortages in the process at one of the country's major referral cent...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Birth asphyxia and Sepsis main causes of neo-natal mortality in Zimbabwe
Birth asphyxia and Sepsis have been cited as one of the main causes of neo-natal deaths in Zimbabwe, a senior health government official has said. Standing in for the Minister of Health and Ch...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 15:27hrs | | by Simiso Mlevu
Brothels ravage Bulawayo
Brothels are multiplying in Zimbabwe's second largest city, with concerned city fathers mulling a campaign to clampdown on the menace.A survey by the Southern News found that numerous town hou...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 13:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Child marriages a major cause for concern in Zimbabwe
A research by an international HIV and AIDS awareness think tank, has revealed child marriages are still a problem in Zimbabwe and stigmatisation attitude among school going children, prompting stakeh...Published: 19 Aug 2017 at 17:31hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe maintains family planning course
ZIMBABWE has met and surpassed some of its 2020 goals for family planning, with statistics from the Ministry of Health and Child Care pointing towards a remarkable increase in the uptake of modern con...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sex education at ECD level
SEXUALITY education has been introduced in schools across all grades, starting from Early Childhood Development (ECD) as part of increasing sexual reproductive health knowledge among young people, an ...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 07:33hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo women bear less children - National Family Planning Council
WOMEN in Bulawayo metropolitan province bear the least number of children compared to their counterparts in other provinces across the country, statistics have shown.According to the Zimbabwe ...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 10:10hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
No condoms in schools - Health Ministry declares
THE Government will not distribute condoms in primary and secondary schools but will instead pursue other HIV intervention strategies that resonate with the mandate of schools, the Ministry of Health ...Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tough times ahead for women politicians
FOR years, Zimbabwe's women in politics offered much hope for their kind, but their voices have since died down.At such a defining moment, when the nation is preparing for watershed elections ...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 06:18hrs | 2 | by Zebb Chakawa
Men 'desperately need protection from abusive wives'
ABOUT 72 percent of Bulawayo men who have gone through counselling at Enkundleni/Padare Men's Forum have reported that their wives beat them up.Most of the victims report that police offic...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 05:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Women across the world must unite to fight the scourge of violence - Masarira
Democracy and Civil Rights activist Linda Masarira has called on all women of different age groups to unite and fight the scourge of violence rocking the world.She said as they comme...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Bev, Muridzo tricky tryst
WHILE many Zimbabweans chuckled, bickered and gnawed each other over Andy Muridzo and Beverly "Bev" Sibanda's illicit affair, very few people reflected on the repercussions of having unprotected s...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo women violent - Government report
A Government commissioned survey has claimed that Bulawayo women are the most violent countrywide as they periodically lash their husbands.To compound the matter, women who attend Pentec...Published: 22 Dec 2016 at 11:37hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe records decrease in HIV prevalence rate
The final results of the 2015 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) show that the HIV prevalence rate in the country declined from 18% to 14% over the past 10 years.The results of ...Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
4 500 Grade 7 pupils impregnated
At least 4 500 Grade Seven pupils countrywide, the majority of them girls, dropped out of school this year after falling pregnant or getting married, Parliament heard on Thursday. Primary and Seco...Published: 10 Dec 2016 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pregnancies, marriages force 4 500 primary kids to drop out, Dokora
A total of 4 500 primary pupils dropped out of school this year owing to pregnancies and marriages countrywide, parliament has heard. Primary and Secondary Education m...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 08:46hrs | | by Alice Dube
Robert Mugabe's SONA address - Fulltext
STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, COMRADE RG MUGABE, TUESDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2016.Madame Presi...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 04:54hrs | 20 | by Roberg G Mugabe
Women timid to report gender based violence
Parliamentary Portfolio Committee chairperson on gender and Goromonzi legislator Biata Nyamupinga has said male involvement in eradicating gender-based violence is key.According to the Zimbabw...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 09:03hrs | | by Alice Dube
Mnangagwa toasts 'enemy' US
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed the relationship between Zimbabwe and the United States in the fight against HIV and Aids despite their political differences. He said the US gover...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Pregnant' teen daughter of AFM elder commits suicide
An Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) elder's form three daughter is believed to have committed suicide in Centenary Mashonaland Central province yesterday (Wednesday).Sources close to investigatio...Published: 24 Nov 2016 at 14:04hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mobile Birth Registration
Recently I was charged $50 to get my son's birth certificate in Zimbabwe, my question is why should the government charge me $50 to register a child. By the was teachers are paid $400 per month and to...Published: 05 Oct 2016 at 10:54hrs | 4 | by Citizen
Effects of Climate Change, the Zimbabwe story
Society is usually ignorant when committing sin, sin that bring heinous and disastrous situations, when not averted in time. Zimbabwe like all other countries has created its own sins that resulted in...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 23:14hrs | 6 | by Mbizo Chirasha
New HIV infections drop 13.8% in Zimbabwe
THE country recorded a total of 57,300 new HIV infections in 2015, statistics from the recently released Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey show. The survey, which is done every five years, sh...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Thandeka Moyo
Teenagers increasingly experimenting with sex
HARDLY a week passes by without the Chitungwiza Magistrates Court dealing with a case of a man who would have engaged in sex with a minor.Magistrate Rekina Dzikiti last week convicted 25-year-...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 50% increase in HIV tests
Zimbabwe has recorded a 50 percent increase in HIV testing for both men and women attributed to the successful roll-out of the Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission (PMTCT) programme accordi...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 20:09hrs | | by Staf Reporter
Rural girls get pregnant earlier than urban ones
Teenage pregnancies among girls in rural areas is still high as one in 10 give birth each year, statistics from the Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey (ZDHS) 2015 have indicated.In 2010, 2...Published: 30 May 2016 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vapostori embrace no under 18 marriage ruling
UNION for the Development of Apostolic Church in Zimbabwe (Udaciza) and Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (Accz) joined scores of people who marched in Harare last week as they celebrated last m...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 07:40hrs | 4 | by Desire Ncube
Businessman brags about marrying girl (15)
A 60-YEAR-OLD polygamous businessman from Silalatshani in Insiza District has caused a stir in the area after he "married" a 15-year-old girl and vowed that only death could separate them. The busines...Published: 30 Aug 2015 at 10:44hrs | | by Tatenda Gapare and Lungile Tshuma
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