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Chamisa's CCC wins plaudits for picking female mayors
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has garnered praise for its efforts to place women in influential positions following last month's elections. This initiative has led to the election...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gokwe, Kwekwe voters rolls found in Chitungwiza
THE Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) has revealed that the voting process in last week's harmonised elections was characterised by serious mishaps including voters rolls...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean women are reduced to cheerleaders in the upcoming election, activists say
In a large hall at the headquarters of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party, women responded with roaring cheers when President Emmerson Mnangagwa described them as the party's "backbone" whose votes are v...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt sued over sex toys ban
GOVERNMENT has been taken to court over the ban on the importation on sex toys.In a High Court application filed on Thursday, Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) ex...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official vociferously defends Murehwa violence
AN UNIDENTIFIED official, purporting to be a Zanu-PF functionary says the party has declared war on the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as the ruling party and CCC "trade blows" and counter accusa...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 18:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Women's rights group challenges ban on sex toys
A WOMEN'S rights and leadership organisation in Harare is challenging the ban on sex toys as prescribed by the Customs and Excise Act, arguing the injunction infringes their right to pleasure....Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lessons from March by-elections
WITH the support from Diakonia, the Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) from April 08 and 12 2022 conducted capacity-building training in transformative feminist leadership...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:54hrs | | by Walpe
Cyberbullying haunts female politicians
ELECTORAL watchdogs and women's rights groups have cited cyberbullying as a major factor discouraging women from actively participating in politics.Addressing delegates at an election sensitis...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new brooms failing to sweep clean
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa embarked on a clean-up exercise when he took over leadership through a coup from the late former President Robert Mugabe in November 2017.However, his leadership h...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:06hrs | | by Martin Storbat
Zec credibility questioned
THE recent announcement by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) that only 2000 new voters were registered in 2021 has once again raised credibility issues against the electoral body.Zimbabw...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zec in fresh voters' roll storm
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday triggered a storm after announcing plans to remove 35 085 names of deceased persons from the voters' roll, two months after identifying only 22 000 de...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zec revises figure on registered voters
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has revised upwards the number of new registered voters in 2021 after members of the public disputed its recent disclosure that only 2 000 people had registered...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Women's groups gun for Chiwenga
Women rights defenders are convening a virtual indaba tomorrow to deliberate on the continuous harassment and alleged abuse of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa Chiwe...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 08:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Women pressure groups abandon Marry Chiwenga in her hour of need
WOMEN'S rights groups have remained silent over the mounting struggles Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, has been facing for the past 18 long months.In ...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Judge grills govt lawyers over by-elections
HIGH Court judge Justice Siyabonga Paul Musithu yesterday grilled government lawyers over the State's failure to hold by-elections for vacant parliamentary and local government seats long after lockdo...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC aligned women groups demand release of Mamombe
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has called for the immediate release of MDC Alliance MP Joanah Mamombe from prison, while bemoaning increasing cases of incarceration and torture of women at the h...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff writer
Zanu-PF bigwigs resists female VP push
Zanu-PF is resisting calls to amend its constitution to re-introduce a woman as one of the party's vice presidents - as the race to replace former State vice president Kembo Mohadi heats up.Th...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Women organisations call for female VP
ZIMBABWEAN women have urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to appoint a female candidate to the vice presidency post to replace his former deputy, Kembo Mohadi, who resigned on Monday. Mohadi wa...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi saga: Fresh details emerge
FRESH details have emerged that embattled former Vice-President Kembo Mohadi tendered his resignation last week, although he made it known to the public in a statement on Monday.This was confi...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
The sex scandals of VP Mohali and the anger
The Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) has joined one Masimba Mavaza in calling for the resignation of Vice President Kembo Mohadi following the embarrassing exposure of h...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 10:42hrs | 1 | by Nicholas Mlamuli Ndebele
Mohadi under pressure to step down over sex romps
THE Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) has demanded the stepping down of Vice President Kembo Mohadi who is mired in embarrassing sex scandals with married women and subor...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political terrain tough for disabled persons
DISABLED women, especially in rural set ups, aspiring to take up leadership positions are facing a double blow to their ambitions.Barbra Nyangairi, Deaf Zimbabwe Trust executive director, said...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's deepening human rights crisis under the cover of lockdown
The outbreak of the coronavirus in Africa has exerted social, economic, political, health and environmental challenges on a continent that was already on its knees.These challenges thus pose a...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Sitabile Dewa
Zimbabwe faces tougher Covid-19 lockdown
ZIMBABWE may be forced into implementing more stringent measures, possibly another lockdown, if Covid-19 cases continue to rise, an official has said.The chief coordinator for the National Res...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
No by-elections anytime soon, declares Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has vowed that by-elections will not take place anytime soon during the COVID-19 pandemic period despite health officials saying polls were poss...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued over appointments
Zimbabwe women Lawyers association (ZWLA) and women's academy of Leadership and Political excellency (walpe) have taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court for failing to observe gender balance in h...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Women sue Mnangagwa
WOMEN's representative groups have approached the High Court seeking leave to sue President Emmerson Mnangagwa for making Cabinet appointments that are not gender sensitive. Zimbabwe Women Law...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lies run sprints, truth runs marathons
They say time heals even the deepest of scars, but not for Bishop Lazarus.And they say everything — absolutely everything and anything — has a price, but not this man of scripture and pray...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:33hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazi
'Mnangagwa ouster plotters' granted ZWL$1k bail
Two civil society leaders, who are facing charges of trying to subvert President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, were yesterday released on ZWL$1 000 bail each after the Prosecutor-General's (PG) Off...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Herald falsehoods exposed, claims Newsday
ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH) has castigated The Herald for abusing and forsaking the tenets of journalism in a desperate attempt to soil the image of NewsDay.This followed a malicious and false ...Published: 18 May 2019 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Call for MDC congress to uplift women
WOMEN'S Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) has called on the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC to give women fair opportunities to take up top leadership positions at its congress pencilled ...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt must compensate victims of army rape
Women rights activists have petitioned government to compensate women who were allegedly raped during a brutal crackdown by the military to crush protests against fuel prices.Dozens of women m...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scores of women raped in police, army crackdown
SCORES of women from Harare's Hopley area alleged they were raped by soldiers during the ongoing crackdown against opposition activists linked to last week's protests against fuel price hikes which tu...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first school of politics opened
ZIMBABWE'S first ever women's political leadership school was on Friday launched in Masvingo under the name, Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe).Walpe, according to...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
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