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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 | 57 | 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 | 237 | 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 | 210 | 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 | 2706 | 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 | 484 | 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 | 391 | by Staff reporter
A narrative is created around Mrs. Auxilia Mnangagwa!
Auxilia married a murderer Emmerson Mnangagwa, a minister for security back then who went on a killing frenzy in Matabeleland and Midlands and left a carnage, curiously never acknowledged by the ICJ i...Published: 11 May 2025 at 13:32hrs | 971 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mthuli Ncube unveils industrial development facilities
Zimbabwe's Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube, has outlined a comprehensive strategy aimed at supporting the growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. The initiative, wh...Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 21:17hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
The new PVO law is a sign of a government that fears its own people
The Zimbabwe government has always been afraid of its own people.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's signing of the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Act, 2025, into law marks yet ano...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 09:27hrs | 81 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
IWA rescues Zim's needy, fights period poverty
IN accordance with ethos and values of India's traditions, Indian Women Association (IWA) has this Tuesday in Harare extended an assortment of donations to six needy charitable homes including sanitar...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 20:43hrs | 582 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole in Harare
US buys more CSOs in Zimbabwe
The United States has awarded grants worth US$475,000 to seven Zimbabwean Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) through the Ambassador's Special Self-Help Fund (SSH). The funding aims to support communit...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 07:47hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa bounces back as councillor
OUTGOING Mashonaland West Provincial resident minister, Mary-Chikoka Mliswa has bounced back as a Hurungwe rural district councillor under the proportional representation quota system.On Sunda...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mystery disease decimates kraals in Mberengwa
FOR a month and a half, Mr Thomas Mangena of Jeka area in Mberengwa District, Midlands Province lived in what seemed to be a bad dream that he wished he would one day wake up from.The reality,...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rural women drive Zimbabwe's green transition
As a rural woman from Wedza, about 140 kilometers from Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, 53-year-old Adefi Mtambo never remotely imagined herself in the driver's seat."I could only operate an o...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife invited to Iran
IRAN's First Lady Dr Jamileh Alamolhoda on Saturday rolled out the red carpet for her counterpart Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa, where the two exchanged notes on various issues including education, health, wo...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's perennial water crisis worrying
Zimbabwe's Perennial Water Crisis is worrying various stakeholders amid the observance of human rights, including socio-economic rights, participation rights and non-discrimination rights, is critical...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 19:40hrs | 11 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe records 3 000 cancer cases annually
CERVICAL cancer has become a major health concern among Zimbabwean women where an average of 3 000 cases are recorded each year, health experts have observed.Cervical cancer constitutes about ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Legislators give SONA thumbs up
Parliamentarians from across the political divide yesterday commended President Mnangagwa for addressing issues affecting the country when he presented the State of the Nation Address and opened the F...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches multi-million dollar cattle project today
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today launch a US$15 million cattle ranching project in Mhondoro that is part of the country's efforts to boost the national herd as part of the Livestock Growth Plan, which s...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:31hrs | 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
Poverty drives women into prostitution
UNSURE of the direction he was taking, the driver of the fancy Chevrolet stopped beside two village women that were walking from the opposite direction, along the dusty road in Maranda, Mwenezi....Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rural areas provide hurdles for Matabeleland female politicians
WHILE women's political participation has been shown to be particularly influential in communities in Zimbabwe, rural areas-based female politicians still battle male dominance.Senzeni Mpofu, ...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 hits women’s customary land right hard
COVID-19 pandemic has hit hard on women's customary land rights Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA) deputy chief Doctor Makanatsa Makonese h...Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 19:46hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Rape used as a political tool: Report
ZIMBABWE has over the past decade recorded a rise in politically-related rape cases with perpetrators using rape as a tool to silence dissent, a recent report on gender-based violence has revealed....Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe divorce law spurs women's fight for property
When Smangele Tshuma got divorced after five years of marriage, her in-laws forced her out of the home that she had been living in with her husband in southwestern Zimbabwe and took the three donkeys ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | 2 | by Reuters
Mnangagwa's govt rolls out community bakeries
Government is establishing community-led bakeries to increase the production of confectionery products, including bread, at affordable prices in rural areas. The programme is also expected to ...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Let's take pride in our currency, say MPs
Zimbabweans should take pride in their currency as obtains in other countries where the local unit is the only acceptable legal tender, legislators have said. In an interview yesterday, Zvimba...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube quizzed over high cost of sanitary wear
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube was last Thursday quizzed in the Senate over the issue of the removal of duty on sanitary wear for women and girls.A packet of panty liners now costs between $3 a...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi opens tobacco selling season
The 2019 tobacco marketing season has been officially opened by Vice President Kembo Mohadi who called for the industry to respect and reward the efforts being made by farmers to produce the lucrative...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 15:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa: First Lady par excellence and philanthropist
The online news publication, Zimeye whose credibility is very questionable, did the unthinkable this week by taking a jibe on the First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa through publishing a shoddily-done...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota
Maternal deaths still a headache
Maternal deaths in Zimbabwe are still a major headache, with over 2 400 women dying while giving birth every year and yet 80% of these can be prevented, a reproductive specialist has said.Alth...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Agricultural productivity a panacea to Zimbabwe's economic revival
Zimbabwe's economy is hinged on agriculture which feeds a number of downstream industries that process agricultural produce into various foods for both humans and livestock. The revival of this sector...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 15:15hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
How come women live longer than men?
It boggles the mind, yes it does. Does anyone out there know why we have more widows when compared to widowers in the land? It be in towns or in rural dress the difference is the same, most ho...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Tondorindo Murisa.
Bringing rural women to the frontline
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and executive director of UN Women, recently began a second term in office. In her first term, she drew attention to women's issues globa...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 16:29hrs | | by Africa Renewal
Mutsvangwa hails empowerment group
Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs Monica Mutsvangwa has hailed a local organisation - Young Women in Business - for supporting business initiatives that empower women and promote sel...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mujuru party ready to join hands with MDC-T'
THE National People's Party (NPP) led by Joice Mujuru (pictured) yesterday said there was need to court the main opposition MDC-T to prop up the opposition's chances of wresting power from the ruling ...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Madam Mnangagwa hails China visit
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has described her engagements in China during the five-day State Visit to that country as fruitful and quite progressive.She accompanied President Mnangagwa on th...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Teenage pregnancies still rampant in Zimbabwe'
ZIMBABWE's laws still do not allow for safe clinical abortions despite that 17% of the youth population aged between 15 and 19 years are already mothers.Getrude Katsande, the Zimbabwe National...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Spare a thought for rural women this election period
Zimbabwe goes into elections within the next six months. The country has experienced violent election periods since the year 2000 when the Movement for Democratic Change party was formed. The election...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 06:58hrs | | by Makho-Precious Moyo
ZLHR celebrate International Women's day
The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has joined the world in celebrating the International Women's day."ON the day of commemorating the United Nations International Women's Day under the them...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 12:54hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Traditional leaders bemoan interference by politicians in the BVR process
Traditional leaders in Zaka and Bikita have raised concerns over interference by politicians in the issuance of proof of residence.Heal Zimbabwe Trust reported that the traditional leaders bem...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
President Biti honoured for Human rights work
The 99 year leases issued government are a terrible arrangement which expose women to the risk of being homeless and losing everything they would have worked for in a wince of an eye, President Biti h...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 15:57hrs | 1 | by PDP
Avian influenza is in Southern Africa, concerted regional approach required to manage it
The first ever confirmation of outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in southern Africa (so far reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, in that or...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 12:32hrs | 4 | by Chimimba David Phiri and Moetapele Letshwenyo
The voice of the forgotten rural women
A few days ago the world celebrated the International Women's Day. It was a day observed in different fashions from fine speeches, pomp gatherings and of course highly celebrated on social media. ...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 11:59hrs | | by Kudakwashe Chakabva
The voice of the forgotten rural women
A few days ago the world celebrated the International Women's Day. It was a day observed in different fashions from fine speeches, pomp gatherings and of course highly celebrated on social media. But ...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 11:12hrs | | by Kudakwashe Chakabva, Executive Director Zimbabwe Dream Project
Grace Mugabe's Gwanda visit cancelled
THE International Rural Women and Family Day commemorations slated for Gwanda tomorrow have been postponed to November 9.The First Lady, Dr Grace Mugabe, who was supposed to be the guest o...Published: 02 Nov 2016 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe to officiate at Gwanda Family Day commemorations
THE First Lady, Dr Grace Mugabe, will on Thursday officiate at the International Rural Women and Family Day commemorations at Pelandaba Stadium in Gwanda.The commemorations will be held un...Published: 01 Nov 2016 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heal Zimbabwe celebrates UN Rural women's day
On Saturday 15 October 2016, HZT joined the rest of the world in commemorating the United Nations' (UN) International Day of Rural Women. The UN international Day of Rural Women celebrates and honours...Published: 20 Oct 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Sex for land rife
Wedzerai Gwenzi from Chisumbanje asks with regret why his late father abandoned his family to join the liberation struggle.Gwenzi says while his father played his part in liberating the countr...Published: 01 May 2016 at 16:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vivian Mwashita's national heroine status demeaning
The conferment of national heroine status to the late Vivian Mwashita is highly demeaning to the people of Zimbabwe but especially the late Victoria Chitepo who will also be buried at the national shr...Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 16:46hrs | | by Tawanda Bvumo - PDP Secretary for Defence
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