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Menstrual cycle saves university student
A Bindura-based university student was lucky to escape being gang raped after the suspects found her on her monthly periods.The matter came to light at Bindura regional magistrates courts on F...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 12:23hrs | 1867 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
Comedian challenges Khalanga Lenkosi to release the nudes
SOCIAL media comedian Sipho Mercent Nyathi has come out guns blazing saying social media influencer Khalanga Lenkosi wants to ruin his reputation and challenged her to release the nudes that she claim...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 07:05hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
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 | 6 | by Matthew Mare
Male contraceptive pill found 99 percent effective in mice
A team of scientists said they had developed an oral male contraceptive that is 99 percent effective in mice without causing side effects, and could enter human trials by the end of this year....Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 09:08hrs | 2 | by AFP
Parly urges govt to address challenges in schools
PARLIAMENT has implored government to, among other interventions, increase allowances for rural teachers to incentivise them to stay in marginalised communities as well as provide schools with ablutio...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MP in sanitary pads project
CHIRUMANZU legislator Barbara Rwodzi (Zanu-PF) has introduced a sanitary wear manufacturing project in her constituency to benefit poor girls and women.Rwodzi told NewsDay that the constituenc...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Daughter stabs father in defence of her mother
An 18-year-old woman from Rusike, Marondera, was arrested today after she allegedly stabbed her father twice while trying to rescue her mother from his attacks for failing to fulfill her conjugal obli...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 16:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Young college students abusing family planning pills to stop periods
SHOCKING details have emerged that some female students at tertiary institutions around the country are using birth control pills to suppress their periods.One of the main reasons is that some...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Girl child heavily affected by school closures
RURAL children, particularly the girl child will be the most affected by the closure of schools due to the COVID-19-induced period, legal consultant and educationist Miriam Tose Majome has said....Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Free sanitary wear for school girls
Female learners in rural schools will start receiving free sanitary wear next year under a Government programme that is meant to assist children from disadvantaged families who are losing out on valua...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Charamba torches a storm by 'insulting' a South African journalist
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba yesterday torched a storm when he "insulted" South African journalist Sophie Mokoena following their protracted debate on South Africa's inv...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Embassy steps in to save girls menstrual health
Have you felt so bad that you no longer wanted to live, that is how teen girls are feeling when they get strange stares from their peers because they may have messed themselves with menstrual bl...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Makho Precious Moyo
Menstrual cycle saves woman from rape
A 23-year-old woman from Lobernvale suburb in the Rangemore area of Bulawayo will forever be grateful to Mother Nature for perfectly timing her menstrual cycle, which literally kicked in before she co...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:36hrs | 4 | 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 w...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:59hrs | 15 | by Linda Masarira
Youth can be agents of positive change
Jayathma Wickramanayake, 27, from Sri Lanka, is the new UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth. Her role is to expand the UN’s youth engagement and advocacy efforts. She also serves as an adviser t...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 14:50hrs | 1 | by Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN youth envoy
Debate on accessibility and affordability of sanitary products in Zimbabwe
I have been following with keen interest the debate on sanitary pads in Zimbabwe since 2014. Both the private and public print media have been carrying screaming headlines on the subject matter. For e...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by Johanne Mhlanga
Priscilla Misihairabwi in tampoons shocker
MDC legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga yesterday brought menstrual cups and tampoons into the National Assembly to illustrate the need for provision of free sanitary wear for girls as the new ...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 05:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Goblins molest 300 women
HUNDREDS of women claim to have been molested by goblins round about the same time in Kezi, Matabeleland South.These revelations were made last Monday during a meeting organised by Chief Nyang...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 05:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Reusable sanitary pads to hit Kariba
At a sensitization meeting held for stakeholders by Tony Waite Organization recently at their office, it was reviewed that economic vulnerability has impacted negatively on women's maternal health res...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 17:12hrs | | by Anwell Bepe - Patsaka Correspondent
39 year old mum with 44 kids
MANY think of fertility as a blessing, but for Ugandan mum, Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye it is a curse.Because of a medical condition called "hyper ovulation", she keeps getting pregnant with mult...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 07:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'If democracy is expensive, dictatorship is seriously expensive ...one cannot afford it'
Whilst some treat democracy as an expense and burdensome, others think otherwise, it is interesting how this article will walk into the mysterious path of democracy. It is within the interest of the r...Published: 19 May 2017 at 18:10hrs | | by Patricia Masiyakurima
Mudede digs in
The University of Zimbabwe Creative Writing Press Club recently hosted Tobaiwa Mudede (Registrar-General of Zimbabwe) and Richard Hondo who delivered a 3-hour presentation on their recently polemical ...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chombo, Chihuri face massive lawsuit
ZIMBABWE's quick-to-arrest and detain police have been dragged to the High Court by a group of 13 Harare residents for wrongful detention.The 13 citizens are demanding a combined $705 000 ...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 11:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman fakes menstruation to avoid sex
To avoid engaging in sex with her husband, a Chitungwiza woman is reportedly in the habit of faking her menstrual cycle.This came to light at Chitungwiza magistrate court where Vakai Gomwe...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 20:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex starved cop bashes wife
A young police officer - Munyaradzi Magombedze aged 22 bashed his wife for being on her monthly menstrual cycle at a time he needed to be intimate with her.Magombedze was fined $100 for assaul...Published: 17 Oct 2016 at 15:05hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Water shortages strangle Zimbabwean townships
The smelling stench of stale urine, rot and disease pervades the smoke ridden, dust laden air of the Zimbabwean townships. In these dwellings the population is high, the demand for water is soaring,wh...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 17:08hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
'Sexual healing' prophet jailed
A self-proclaimed prophet of the Johanne Masowe weChishanu apostolic sect in Kwekwe has been slapped with a 36-year jail term after he raped and infected a congregant with HIV.Wellington Gase ...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Clean Water and Sanitation - What about women and girls in war zones?
For more than three decades Africa has been in serious war challenges due to various political, social and economic reasons. Many people have died in the whole war and cheap military drama. Have we ev...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 15:34hrs | 1 | by Mbizo Chirasha
War veterans should take the blame
THE sad story of war veterans, the vanguards of the country's liberation struggle, has been with us for quite some time now.I have decided to chew the bullet ahead of their meeting with Presid...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 10:31hrs | 1 | by Pastor Lazarus
Tobaiwa Mudede receive death threats
REGISTRAR General Tobaiwa Mudede claims he received threats from the media and "high places" while writing his controversial book on family planning.Mudede launched the book titled, Geneticall...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
My mother is engaging in sex with a man who is too young for her
Hi Sis NoeMy ex-boyfriend wants me back but I am concerned he is just after sex because he has not told me he loves me. He just talks about the great sex we used to have and always talks dirty...Published: 24 Jan 2016 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Sis Noe
Prophet turns water into wine, congregants get 'zonked' during service
A latest Bulawayo prophet - Moses Naude Ndlovu who operates from a three roomed NKumulane house claims that he has powers to turn water into wine. Jesus Christ first miracle was the trans...Published: 30 Oct 2015 at 11:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tobaiwa Mudede responds to birth control drugs critics
Our presentation to the Parliamentary Portfolio committee on Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development on July 7 2015 triggered a myriad of comments. We have received an overwhelming number o...Published: 25 Jul 2015 at 09:17hrs | 2 | by Tobaiwa T Mudede and Richard Hondo
Woman gives birth to twins from different fathers
A woman in the US has given birth to twins who have two different fathers.The case was revealed after the woman, identified only as TM, named her current boyfriend as the father of her twins....Published: 27 May 2015 at 11:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudede renews call to do away with modern contraceptives
THE Registrar General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede has again appealed to Zimbabweans to do away with modern contraception methods and revert back to the traditional methods of contraception such as the menstrual...Published: 03 May 2015 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Soldier 'assaults wife over WhatsApp messages'
A SOLDIER stationed in Bulawayo allegedly physically abused his police officer wife over a suspected extra marital affair. Fordson Chipenga, 33, who appeared before Plumtree magistrate, Gideon Ruvetsa...Published: 15 Apr 2015 at 06:59hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Sex-obsessed hubby forces wife to be intimate during her menstrual cycle
A woman yesterday told the court that her sex-obsessed husband forces her to be intimate with him even when she is going through her menstrual cycle. Mercy Makuyana also claimed Peacemaker...Published: 19 Mar 2015 at 07:58hrs | | by Prosper Dembedza
New-born baby shoved in a handbag
AN UNWANTED new-born-baby has been rescued alive after its teenage mother placed the tot in a plastic bag, shoved it in a handbag and buried it under a pile of clothes.Investigators believe th...Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 06:18hrs | | by Nokusa Masuku
'Sexless' couple in war of words
A Bulawayo woman claims her businessman husband held on to her undergarment for a sexual ritual that leads her to have an abnormal menstrual period.Sikhulisiwe Dube believes her husband uses ...Published: 21 Feb 2015 at 20:36hrs | 1 | by Gibson Mhaka
Free sanitary pads for Nkayi girls
The Matabeleland Ex Students Association this week kicked off a programme of donating sanitary pads to grade seven pupils in the region.The programme piloted at five primary schools in the...Published: 14 Jul 2014 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zim women resort to cow dung in place of expensive sanitary pads
Rural Zimbabwean women have revealed shocking news that the high cost of sanitary pads in the country is forcing them to use cow dung during their period.The revelation came out during ...Published: 28 May 2014 at 20:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man (57) gets 40 years behind bars for raping neighbour's daughters
A 57-year-old Bulawayo man who thought he could have a six-year-old for a girlfriend, was yesterday sentenced to 40 years behind bars. Ndola Gwebu, a father of three from Mzilikazi suburb, wi...Published: 02 May 2014 at 02:54hrs | 2 | by Auxilia Katongomara
House girl (15) turned into a sex slave by her hooker boss
A 15-YEAR-OLD nanny yesterday told a court she was turned into a sex slave by her hooker boss. The girl, from Bubi district under Chief Mtshane Khumalo, told Bulawayo magistrate Gladmore Musho...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 09:15hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo out of emergency contraceptives after sex-fuelled Christmas
BULAWAYO has run out of emergency contraceptives, better known as ‘the morning after' pill after sex-fuelled Christmas and New Year's holidays celebrations, pharmacists warned yesterday....Published: 08 Jan 2014 at 16:18hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
'Reduce price of sanitary wear'
Retailers are refusing to slash the prices of sanitary wear in the wake of a 15 percent cut in import duty.Renias Mundingi, Southern Africa Aids Dissemination Service (SafAids) senior programm...Published: 21 Dec 2013 at 01:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor holds teen in 'sexual bondage'
A 17–YEAR–OLD girl who was under the "guardianship" of RMG Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura yesterday said she lived in sexual bondage aft...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 03:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'I am calling on men to undergo circumcision' - Khupe
MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe yesterday reiterated calls for men to consider circumcision in a bid to prevent new cervical cancer infections in the country.Cervical cancer is caused by ...Published: 18 Oct 2013 at 03:32hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Govt adoptes new cervical cancer vaccine (HPV)
THE Government has adopted a new cervical cancer vaccine called the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) that is expected to reduce the number of women who succumb to the disease.The Ministry of Healt...Published: 22 Apr 2013 at 06:00hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Women on the pill prefer less masculine men: Study
Women using the birth control pill prefer men with less masculine faces compared to nonusers, new research suggests.Millions of women use hormonal forms of contraception, and some studies ind...Published: 29 Mar 2013 at 12:17hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
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