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Zimbabwe MPs edgy over gay rights
SOME parliamentarians believe Zimbabwe must not grant members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) community freedom to openly exercise their sexual rights.T...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean asylum seeker married at age 9 and 13 earns court reprieve to remain in Ireland
A 29-year-old Zimbabwe woman married first at age nine and again at age 13 has earned a Court of Appeal reprieve in her bid to remain in Ireland.The woman – who is a lesbian – arrived here...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mutare family 'disowns' gay son
GALZ has slammed Zimbabwe's laws for fuelling hate against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQl+) community following the recent publicity of a Mutare based family "diso...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Check if Desmond Tutu landed in heaven please Prophet Madungwe?
Issues of spirituality were deliberately designed to be ambiguous by God himself. For human purpose on Earth to be meaningful, fundamental ambiguity in the very existence of God must be in pla...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 10:24hrs | 11 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Zimbabwe-born rugby great Pocock seeks political office in Australia
Rugby great David Pocock announced on Friday he is moving into politics, launching a bid to reach the Australian Senate in next year's general election.Pocock, 33, said he would stand as an in...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Kelly Khumalo snubs 'homophobic' Zimbabwe in solidarity with Somizi
Singer Kelly Khumalo skipped her appearance at the grand reopening of Garwe Restaurant in Harare, Zimbabwe on Thursday, in solidarity with media personality Somizi Mhlongo, following a controversial m...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 16:23hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Somizi hits back at Zanu-PF
FAMOUS South African socialite Somizi Mhlongo, also known as Somgaga, Thursday, responded to the ZANU-PF youth's claims of planning to mobilis against him if he graced the reopening of Garwe restauran...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 10 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Monarchy: The cornerstone of African existence
PRINCE Phillip is no longer in our midst. Some dark cloud seems to envelope Britain. May his soul rest in peace. A couple of weeks back, Southern Africa seemed to stand still under a similar dark clou...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Zii Masiye
SA-based Zimbabwean gay couple demand rights back home
SHINGIRAI Musekiwa and Elton Chibhebhe fled Zimbabwe to come to South Africa because they are gay.Now based in Langa, the activist couple is fighting for the human rights of Zimbabwean homosex...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa's ex-lover has a son with SB Moyo?
Susan Mutami who has been trending for claiming Temba Mliswa is engaged in homophobic affairs and is seeking to end July Moyo, has reportedly made sensational claims that she has a son with the late F...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 18:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa in messy break-up
Health care professional Susan Vivian Mutami who is battling to end a three-month relationship with Temba Mliswa says she regrets meeting the Norton Member of Parliament whom she accuses of turning he...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 21:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gays and Lesbians targets Zimbabwe universities, colleges
THE Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) has started a process of engaging universities and other higher learning institutions as part of a broader strategy to strengthen academic freedom of members o...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bullying and Harassment in the Work Place
Experiencing bullying and harassment in the workplace can be devastating, but you do not have to put up with it.What is bullying at work?Bullying at work can take many forms. Are you o...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 19:53hrs | 1 | by Muchie Shamuyarira
SDA pastor in court over gay speech
A Seventh Day Adventist preacher Bishop Joshua Maponga has come under fire after revering to homosexual people as people with animalistic behaviour. A fellow church member only identified as Sim...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 17:26hrs | 17 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gay Zimbabwe teacher resigns after death threats
A gay teacher at a top Zimbabwean boys' school has resigned after death threats and pressure from parents.Neal Hovelmeier, deputy head for St John's College's sixth form, came out to his stude...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 20:40hrs | | by BBC
WATCH: St John's School parents demand the resignations of gay teacher
A parents' meeting at a Zimbabwe elite school descended into chaos on Monday, after a teacher came out as gay.Videos from the event shared on social media showed several heated confrontations,...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 07:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Gays praise Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has received rare praise from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community for abandoning his predecessor Robert Mugabe’s politics of discrimin...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is open for business but not open for Gay Rights
The new Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa spoke on LGBT equality subject for the first time as president, during an interview with CNN's Richard Quest at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Mnang...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:48hrs | 4 | by Thamie T
Gays pin their hopes on Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe is one of several African countries that do not acknowledge the rights of queer bodies. But members of Zimbabwe's queer community are hopeful that the country's new president Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gays appeal for equal rights
The Gays and Lesbian Association of Zimbabwe (Galz) is hoping that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government will break with the tradition of deposed ex-leader Robert Mugabe who subjected them t...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gays and Lesbians raise alarm over stereotyping in Zimbabwe
THE Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) is engaging the clergy, lawyers, traditional leaders among other stakeholders to raise awareness on issues relating to their members to correct stereotypes abo...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Are LGBT+ Folks Even Considered Humans in Zimbabwe?
It is no secret that our nation is very intolerant towards the LGBT+ community. Various reasons are put forward to justify the blatant and, seemingly, unrelenting hatred that queer folks continue to b...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 10:54hrs | | by Mx Joyline Maenzanise
Zanu PF 21st movement celebration to honour the colonialists
MDC officials Descent Collins Bajila has expressed reservations that the move by Zanu PF to hold its 21st movement celebrations in honour of President Robert Mugabe's birthday at the Rhodes Estate Pre...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 05:06hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tutu, God, satan and political bravado
On the 29th of July 2013, the Agence France-Presse reported that the renowned Bishop and retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu had apparently joined the ranks of gay rights supporters in t...Published: 21 Sep 2016 at 12:22hrs | 1 | by Venus Mlalazi
Banned US Pastor is already in South Africa!
Controversial US pastor Steven Anderson, who has been accused of making homophobic remarks, will not be allowed to enter South Africa. Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said he was not g...Published: 13 Sep 2016 at 13:22hrs | | by BBC
Homosexuals must be killed - Malawi politician
A Malawian politician has demanded that homosexuals be killed after the country's justice minister Samuel Tembenu put a temporary prohibition on anti-homosexual laws.Nyasa Times reported that ...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 13:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Desmond Tutu's lesbian daughter weds
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's daughter, Reverend Mpho Tutu who is a lesbian got married on Wednesday.Her lesbian marriage stands in stark contrast to her Tutu parents, who recently renewe...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 17:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gays and lesbians under siege in Harare
Foreign gays and lesbians attending the International Conference on Aids and STI's in Africa (ICASA) in Harare are under siege as government seized most of the their workshop material at Harare Intern...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF wars head to courts
Zanu-PF's escalating factional and succession wars, that have lately seen supporters of First Lady Grace Mugabe and those of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa savaging each other in public fora, coul...Published: 18 Oct 2015 at 11:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF war as Mnangagwa's allies fight back
Allies of embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who together with their Midlands godfather have been on the receiving end of unrelenting blows from their enemies in the warring post-congress Za...Published: 11 Oct 2015 at 16:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councilor backs gay rights
Richman Rangwani, a Zanu-PF councillor for Mhondoro Ngezi, has come out in the open to champion rights of homosexuals, a move likely to spark censure from his homophobic party which advocates full e...Published: 19 May 2014 at 14:35hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Museveni won't rush to approve anti-gay law
Kampala - Uganda President Yoweri Museveni will not rush to approve a controversial anti-gay draft law, widely criticised internationally but overwhelmingly backed by local political and religious lea...Published: 02 Jan 2014 at 15:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Up and close with Generations' Senzo Dlomo
TO many he is Senzo Dlomo, the pompous gay son of an eccentric, egotistical business mogul, Sbusiso in South Africa's longest running soapie - Generations.Even though his role as a gay charac...Published: 19 Nov 2013 at 03:57hrs | 3 | by Leisure Reporter
Generations stars to party in Bulawayo
FANS and followers of the popular South African soapie, Generations, have a chance to mix and mingle with their television icons MJ and Senzo when they make a debut appearance in Bulawayo next weeke...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 10:46hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara Saturday Leisure Correspondent
I will vote in 2018, not this year
I did not go home to vote today. I already knew my 'candidate' was not on the ballot paper. All of the ballot papers, Presidential, parliamentary, local government. She was not there. No, this had not...Published: 05 Aug 2013 at 11:08hrs | | by Everjoice Win
Desmond Tutu slammed over 'homophobic God'
ACDP leader Rev Kenneth Meshoe has slammed Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu for his "homophobic God" statement, The Cape Times reported on Wednesday."Archbishop Desmond Tutu is out of order w...Published: 31 Jul 2013 at 12:14hrs | | by Sapa
Mugabe urges the 'little Bishop' to resign
President Mugabe took a swipe at South Africa's Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu for supporting homosexuality which he says is against African customs. Mugabe and Tutu have always been at...Published: 27 Jul 2013 at 16:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven' says Tutu
South African peace icon Desmond Tutu has said he would rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God, likening the fight against gay prejudice to the anti-apartheid struggle.Tutu made the c...Published: 26 Jul 2013 at 22:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ban gay, lesbian groups - demands pressure group
A Zimbabwean anti-gay pressure group, Africa Against Western Influence and Interference, has urged authorities to ban gay and lesbian groups in the country, saying their existence was unconstitutional...Published: 02 May 2013 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Group calls for banning of gays and lesbians
A local pressure group, Africa Against Western Influence and Interference, has called on authorities to ban gay and lesbian groups in the country, saying their existence was unconstitutional and un-A...Published: 02 May 2013 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gays writes to Mugabe
The Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) yesterday welcomed President Robert Mugabe's renewed calls for peace but urged him to minority groups also enjoy the protection of the law....Published: 22 Apr 2013 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Homophobic Christian poses as a gay man for a year to reform his beliefs
In what many homophobic Zimbabweans would call satanic, a self-proclaimed US homophobic Christian posed as a gay man for an entire year, even "coming out" to family and friends in the process, all t...Published: 16 Jun 2012 at 06:10hrs | | by NYDN
Zimbabwean male nurse struck off the UK nursing register for sexual misconduct
A UK based ZIMBABWEAN male nurse from Doncaster, Sydney Moyo, has been struck off the UK nursing register on the grounds of "sexual misconduct", "dishonesty" and "entrenched attitudinal problems" the ...Published: 03 Apr 2012 at 00:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gay and Lesbian Sports Federation targets Mourinho for homophobic slur
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has come under fire for a homophobic slur he made prior to his team's Champions League clash at CSKA Moscow.The outspoken Mourinho allegedly labelled match offi...Published: 23 Feb 2012 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK Says Bulawayo is More Tolerant To Homosexuals
United Kingdom based online News website the NewZimbabwe.Com reports that ZIMBABWEAN s claiming asylum in the UK are more than likely to be turned down because the country has a thriving "gay...Published: 14 Feb 2012 at 23:04hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Zulu King says gays are rotten
Johannesburg - Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini has criticised people who engage in same sex relationships, labelling them as "rotten", according to a newspaper report on Monday."Traditi...Published: 23 Jan 2012 at 16:20hrs | | by Sapa
Black homosexual assaulted after winning Mr Gay Namibia contest
Windhoek - A gay rights group on Thursday condemned a physical assault on a black homosexual after he won a title in the first ever Mr Gay Namibia contest.Out-Right Namibia (ORN) said it "stro...Published: 09 Dec 2011 at 07:01hrs | | by AFP
Whether you like or hate Tsvangirai, this time he got it right
It was Professor Stephen Chan who not so very long ago wrote something to the effect that even though Morgan Tsvangirai is prone to gaffes, he is still capable of some strokes of "genius". Perhaps n...Published: 16 Nov 2011 at 08:06hrs | | by Muthulisi Mathuthu
'Gay rights' - we hear you Premier Tsvangirai
Tomorrow marks that tragic day in Zimbabwean history when in 1965 during this eleventh month ("the month of the goat declared sacred by our people), on the eleventh day and eleventh hour, the r...Published: 15 Nov 2011 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Hildegarde Manzvanzvike
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