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Period poverty exposes vulnerable girls to HIV
A top government health official has warned that continued lack of access to menstrual hygiene products for women and girls poses serious health and socio-economic consequences, including exposure to ...Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:55hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Evicted Zimbabwean families brace for winter without shelter
With just a month ahead of the start of the winter season in Zimbabwe, the harsh reality of survival is hitting hard for Gogo Esther and other displaced families in Harare's Retreat and Waterfalls are...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's new tax regime to trigger price hikes
The recently proposed tax regime by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is anticipated to lead to significant price increases, with the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) forecasting a potential U...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:35hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Teachers criticise Mthuli Ncube
Teachers' unions criticized Finance Minister Mthulisi Ncube for not addressing the challenges facing the education sector and demanded that the 2024 budget should focus on resolving long-standing issu...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:49hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council proposes US$263 million budget
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday proposed a standstill US$263 million gender-responsive budget for next year while prioritising service delivery and predicting a stable economic environment in 20...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 05:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube has failed us'
WOMEN's organisations have decried failure by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to address "menstrual poverty" among girls and women who are failing to access affordable sanitary wear.Ncube last w...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare youths get drunk on sanitary pads powder
Zimbabwean youths grasping to survive the prevailing harsh economic conditions have turned to drinking sodium polyacrylate to get high and forget their problems. sodium polyacrylate is found in di...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 11:50hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's wife urges Zimbabweans to pray hard for sanctions to be removed
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa says God can cause Western powers to lift sanctions they imposed on Zimbabwe if the country's citizens pray hard enough.She said this on Tuesday while addressing ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:57hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife blames unemployment on sanctions
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has blamed the collapse of industries in the country and high unemployment rates on sanctions, saying the nation should pray hard for their removal.She said this ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stanbic Bank donates sanitary wear to school girls
Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe has donated reusable sanitary pads to 775 primary and secondary school girls from across the country worth ZWL 1 426 000.00 as part of its commemoration of women's month. ...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 14:17hrs | 12 | by Agencies
Zanu-PF Youth League to elect new leadership
Zanu-PF Youth league will hold the 7th National elective Youth Conference in May this year to elect its new leadership.The last youth conference was held in 2014.Speaking at a press co...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Church leader pays fees for entire school
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has left a sad trail of hopelessness in many poverty stricken communities around Zimbabwe.While some urban settlers are receiving some cushion against the...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:29hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF women donate to Mpilo Hospital
MPILO Central Hospital is in dire need of sanitary pads and diapers with reports that two abandoned children are taken to the public institution weekly.Officials said more than half of the hos...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland youth to launch Bukalanga Foundation
Diaspora based Matabeleland Youth is said to launch Bukalanga Foundation, a non-profit organization that will help vulnerable people around the country....Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 13:15hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
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
Steward Bank partners Kunashe Foundation to support underprivileged girls
HARARE - Zimbabwe's largest bank by depositors, Steward Bank, has joined forces with Kunashe Foundation to end period poverty in the country by supplying reusable sanitary wear to underprivileged girl...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 15:48hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Zanu-PF MP engages Jena Mine
ZANU-PF legislator for Silobela constituency, Mtokozisi Manoki Mpofu, has engaged gold producer, Jena Mines over concerns raised by the community, Business Times reported.Some of t...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 08:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Former students donate to Entumbane High
FORMER students of Entumbane High School in Bulawayo have donated a heavy duty printer to the school as part of helping the institution to meet its printing needs.The former students, who atte...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
China donates US$1,2m medical supplies to Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE in the past year managed to reduce maternal deaths in Chimanimani and Chipinge districts by 46 percent following interventions by the Government in partnership with the Chinese Government and...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parliament raises alarm over school pregnancies
PARLIAMENTARY investigations at selected schools over their preparedness to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed that the lockdown period resulted in a sharp rise in pregnancies among pu...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | 7 | 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
Ritual and superstition - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
The sight of an opposition MP grovelling on the floor of parliament before the Finance Minister to thank him for women's sanitary pads is about as stupefying as South Africa's Chief Justice Mogeong Mo...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 22:54hrs | 3 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
School benefits from Auxilia Mnangagwa's pads project
Learners at Dimbe Secondary School in Marondera have become the first beneficiaries of the First Lady, Amai Auxilia Mnangagwa's reusable sanitary wear project.The initiative was launched by th...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 13:05hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
'HOPE for Kids giving hope'
Misheck Kugodah Mlambo explained what is Hope for Kids and how it operates to Mutare citizens on Saturday.Speaking on a whatsApp platform, Mutare Watch Mlambo said, "Hope for Kids is a c...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:05hrs | 1 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
HOPE for Kids giving hope
Misheck Kugodah Mlambo explained what is Hope for Kids and how it operates to Mutare citizens on Saturday.Speaking on a Whatsapp platform, Mutare Watch Mlambo said, "Hope for Kids is a c...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 12:20hrs | 18 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
MDC leaders told to resign
Bulawayo lawyer Sindiso Mazibisa has urged the MDC leadership to resign if they are failing to provide the necessary leadership that the people of Zimbabwe need to solve the problems bedevilling the c...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 14:14hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Time for concrete action to end period poverty
There seems to be an erroneous feeling of respite amongst some menstrual health activists and stakeholders regarding the removal of duty and VAT on selected imported sanitary wear products by governme...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
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
Sanitary wear firm sets up shop in Bulawayo
A CHINESE owned company, Tiens International Group, plans to open a new sanitary wear plant in Bulawayo, whose products they claim have reproductive system healing qualities. The firm pa...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Worsening period poverty in Zimbabwe calls for urgent action
For the first time since 2009, Zimbabwe's economy is projected to slide into a recession this year, with real GDP going down to -5.2%, the lowest economic growth rate in Africa this year. Inflation is...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 10:58hrs | 24 | by Theresa Nyava
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
Zimbabwe's runaway prices good for malayitsha business
Towering piles of cooking oil, tyres, biscuits, microwaves and toilet paper filled a small and damp Johannesburg basement – all destined for Zimbabwe.The items are loaded onto trailers attac...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:35hrs | 3 | by AFP
39 school kids feared dead
NEARLY 40 students from Dzingire Primary School in Chimanimani are feared dead as the country continue to count the cost of the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai.This comes as the death toll from...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai donations continue to pour
Several companies and organisations continue to chip in with humanitarian assistance towards relief efforts in Cyclone Idai-ravaged Chimanimani and Chipinge, where over 192 people have been confirmed ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
11 719 affected as Cyclone Idai kills 98
AT least 98 people have been confirmed dead, while 102 others were injured, with 11 719 affected in various ways by Cyclone Idai which hit mainly parts of Manicaland province since last week. ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over continued tax on sanitary wear
MDC-T Bulawayo Legislator, Ms Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, has called on the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development to uphold the policy on sanitary wear following reports that its importati...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fostering gender equality by eradicating period poverty
Again, it is that day of the year when we commemorate International Women's Day, a day that we also take stock of the victories that have been won for girls and women so far. And again, there is not m...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
Fostering gender equality by eradicating period poverty
Again, it is that day of the year when we commemorate International Women's Day, a day that we also take stock of the victories that have been won for girls and women so far. And again, there is not m...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 09:57hrs | | by Theresa Farai Nyava
Minister Fortune Chasi dehumanizing women on camera
There is a video trading online showing Minister Fortune Chasi posing for a photo with young women and girls holding sanitary wear/pads. I agree that it is good for Minister Chasi and others to donate...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 09:01hrs | 2 | by Don Chigumba
Miss Zimbabwe UK launches foundation
AMANDA Nkomo, Miss Zimbabwe UK has chosen to go the path of giving back to the community that raised her through her newly found foundation called Ngcono Mbowane Foundation.The Ngcono Mbowane ...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thabitha Khumalo barred from visiting MDC Alliance looters at Bulawayo prison
STAFF at Mlondolozi Women Prison in Bulawayo on Saturday barred MDC national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo and her delegation from visiting party members incarcerated at the penal facility.Khum...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Prophet Makandiwa donates to Childline Zimbabwe
United Family International Church (UFIC) leader Emmanuel Makandiwa's wife, Ruth, through her humanitarian organisation Agape Family Care, has donated a container, sanitary pads and groceries worth $8...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Panties for female prisoners
A Harare woman has started an initiative to raise panties for the female prisoners at Chikurubi Maximum prison.The organiser of the initiative, Riana Moss said she was touched by the plight of...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza residents give up on service delivery
CHITUNGWIZA residents said they were battling a myriad of service delivery challenges, which include uncollected garbage, erratic water supplies, burst sewers, and have given up hope of getting normal...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Back to school, back to period poverty!
In a country with 3 million girls and women who menstruate, with about a third of them being school going children either in primary or secondary school, there is a good chance that thousands of them ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 11:36hrs | 1 | by Theresa Nyava
Of bloody period taboos and gender based violence
We often use the adverb "naturally" to explain inevitable things whose occurrence we just have to accept and deal with. We can't run away from such things, we simply have to face them. Whenever that a...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 08:58hrs | 19 | by Theresa Nyava
Removal of duty and VAT on sanitary wear imports not an end in itself
We applaud Treasury for its commitment in the 2019 National Budget that it will prioritise integration of gender across all sectors of the economy critical for achieving equitable, sustainable and inc...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 07:54hrs | 3 | by Theresa Nyava
Government drops duty on sanitary pads
GOVERNMENT has removed duty on sanitary pads, a move likely to be welcomed by women as the price of basic toiletries is now beyond the reach of many. Gender activists and legislators have over the yea...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Sanitary wear beyond reach of young girls'
Women organisations have bemoaned the high price of sanitary wear suggesting that they should be availed to women and young girls for free.This comes as the country has been characterised by p...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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