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Harare's sex work industry expanding
Zimbabwe's faltering economy has pushed an increasing number of young women into sex work, heightening concerns over public health risks and HIV transmission.Theresa*, 23, from Chitungwiza, tu...Published: 18 Aug 2025 at 12:48hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
1 in 5 Zimbabwean infants receive exclusive breastfeeding
As the world observes World Breastfeeding Week from August 1 to 7, Nutrition Action Zimbabwe (NAZ) has raised alarm over the country's sharply declining exclusive breastfeeding rates, warning of a loo...Published: 02 Aug 2025 at 10:11hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
High pregnancy rates among HIV+ teens in Zimbabwe
A groundbreaking study conducted in Zimbabwe and Zambia has revealed alarmingly high pregnancy rates among adolescents born with HIV, highlighting urgent gaps in healthcare systems and social support ...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 20:57hrs | 413 | 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 | 247 | by Staff reporter
Police launch manhunt after 13-year-old gives birth mid-air
Matabeleland South police have launched an urgent manhunt for an unidentified suspect believed to have impregnated a 13-year-old girl who gave birth mid-air while being airlifted from Maphisa Hospital...Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 17:26hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
13 year old gives birth mid-air in Helidrive rescue
In a breathtaking display of medical precision and courage, a 13-year-old girl gave birth mid-flight aboard a Helidrive National Air Rescue Service helicopter as she was being airlifted from Maphisa H...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:38hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Mum hangs self after killing 2 kids
A wave of shock and horror has swept through Besa Village after a young mother and her two young children were found dead in a suspected double child murder followed by suicide, in a chilling incident...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:18hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Speaking against injustice is not being negative - it's being honest
There are those who often find the truth hard to swallow - but, like medicine, it is vital for healing.I am often told that I focus too much on the negative.That I dwell on the darker ...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 21:53hrs | 194 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's tobacco marketing season booms
This year's tobacco marketing season is demonstrating remarkable stability and prosperity, creating an encouraging environment for Zimbabwean farmers as prices at auction floors remain robust....Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 10:05hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Woman throws child at father in court
Emotions ran high at Chief Makoni's community court recently when Panashe Gundla, a young mother from Rusape, broke down in tears after DNA test results confirmed that Blessing Mlauzi, who had long de...Published: 10 May 2025 at 17:51hrs | 1231 | by Staff reporter
Obert Gutu urges humane handling of vendors' crisis
National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) commissioner Obert Gutu has called for restraint and empathy in dealing with vendors, following the Zimbabwean government's order to remove them fro...Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 07:02hrs | 3063 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo hospital baby swap scandal findings to be made public
The investigation into the distressing case of the baby swap at United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) is still ongoing, with the Government promising full transparency and the eventual publication of its fi...Published: 24 Feb 2025 at 08:49hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Woman shares heart-wrenching story behind kidnapping of newborn baby
A 39-year-old woman from Pumula South suburb in Bulawayo has opened up about the devastating circumstances that led her to kidnap a two-day-old baby from Mpilo Central Hospital in September 2023, an a...Published: 22 Dec 2024 at 10:39hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant children, marital rape victims have a right to abortion, High Court rules
A law denying access to legal abortion for children below the age of 18 and married women who are victims of marital rape is unconstitutional, the Harare High Court has declared in a landmark ruling....Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 16:40hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Girls as young as 10-years-old are having babies in SA
Shocking statistics revealed recently that over 4,000 girls in the Eastern Cape have given birth in the past four months.The Eastern Department of Health (DOH) said 97 of these girls were aged...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 21:06hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Government urged to support return of pregnant students to school
Harare, 19 July 2024 (New Ziana) - With a rising number of school-going adolescent girls becoming pregnant, Mashonaland Central Senator Angeline Tongogara has called on the Ministry of Public Service,...Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 10:14hrs | 497 | by Staff Reporter
Community service for killing boyfriend
The High Court has sentenced a Kariba woman to 620 hours of community service after she fatally stabbed her jealous boyfriend with a broken beer bottle on the neck in front of police officers at the N...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Baby snatched by baboon survives after brave mum chases after animal
A mother has told how she chased after a baboon and forced it to give up its unusual prey - her 18-month-old son.Petronella Moyo was doing cleaning her house in West Nicholson on November 16 w...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Norton residents rally behind Mliswa
Norton residents have said they will bring back Temba Mliswa to represent them in parliament in a tightly contested race between him and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate Richard Tsvangira...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:33hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives rally attendees 'ED bread' to consume for a day
IT was yet another bumper crowd for President Emmerson Mnangagwa where Zanu-PF supporters attended the Mashonaland Central provincial rally in Centenary over the weekend.Hundreds of buses and ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean mother and baby daughter murdered in Thabong
The gruesome discovery of a young mother and her 3-month old daughter who had been “slaughtered” has sent shock waves through the small settlement of Katanga, Thabong.A neighbour discovere...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 08:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe winning HIV/AIDS fight
Zimbabwe has registered considerable success in the quest to end HIV in children through the way it targets pregnant women and is now urging global peers to embrace the strategy.This came up a...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 23:44hrs | 163 | by Staff Reporter
When being oppressed is perceived as an honor and privilege!
It is most certainly saddening and tragic when a nation sinks to such levels, whereby there are those who actually perceive oppression as some warped and ...Published: 12 Nov 2022 at 19:16hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Grade 7 pupil gives birth, writes exam from hospital bed
SHE is 13 years old but already a mother of a one-month-old baby girl.The girl, of Mkhosana in Victoria Falls, shocked all and sundry when she wrote part of her Zimsec Grade Seven general exam...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo records an increase in home births
BULAWAYO recorded an increase in home deliveries since January this year, a development which experts say may reverse gains made in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality rates in Zimbabwe.R...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 07:34hrs | 154 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo's 36-year-old farming project crippled by water shortages
IT is now 36 years since the farming project was formed at the Luveve Gam Plantation and still there is no water infrastructure to irrigate the crop...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 14:03hrs | 22 | by Stephen Jakes
Why Tsholotsho has highest HIV burden
GROWING up in a poverty-stricken family, and being discriminated against by her own father drove Thabiso Ndlovu straight into the hands of men.The 21-year-old from Maphane Village in Tsholotsh...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda water woes persist
A drive along the streets of Spitzkop suburb in Gwanda as early as 5am follows a trail of desperate women and children carrying water buckets in search of water.Miss Tobekile Toma (16) and oth...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:23hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Home Affairs ministry must address IDs bottlenecks
YOUTH Forum wishes to congratulate the 25 603 citizens who registered to vote from the start of the voter registration blitz to the present.As announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Z...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:40hrs | 11 | by Institute for Young Women Development
Shrine death: Cops hunt for girl's grave
The death of a married 14-year-old Johanne Marange Apostolic Church girl during childbirth at the church's shrine in Marange, and the location of her grave, are now subjects of a police investigation ...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt making strides to end child sexual abuse: Minister
WOMEN Affairs minister Sithembiso Nyoni yesterday said government was making strides towards ending sexual abuse of young girls and child marriages.In a statement, Nyoni said progress has also...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:44hrs | 2 | by Jamwanda
Precious Sibalo's journey to the cockpit encountered turbulence before take off from the runway
Precious Sibalo's journey to the cockpit has by no means been an easy feat. But after overcoming societal barriers and challenging stereotypes, Precious successfully secured a coveted role in aviation...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 17:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: 1 million drop out of school
NEARLY a million students have dropped out of schools over the past year, mainly due to COVID19-induced poverty which has increased inequalities, an investigation by a non-governmental organisation ha...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Desperate hungry women steal maize cobs
Three desperate young Shamva women were arraigned before a Bindura magistrate for stealing 251 maize cobs at a farm in Bindura.Tanaka M...Published: 18 May 2021 at 01:07hrs | 9 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean woman kidnaps baby in Botswana
AN unidentified suspected Zimbabwean woman is said to be on the run in Botswana after she allegedly kidnapped a four-week-old baby in Francistown last week.Reports from that country are that a...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:15hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
My heart is in Zimbabwe!
As we pass from the year 2020, let us establish some homegrown truths about ourselves as Zimbabweans.While I will challenge our readers to this debate, on penalty of paying a fine of a goat if...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 2 | by Ken Mufuka
We can fix our country
I AM one of many Zimbabweans who witnessed the birth of an independent Zimbabwe 39 years ago.Apart from my own modest participation in the struggle for our independence, I do have a vivid memo...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by Paul Themba Nyathi
US foreign policy prefers Kenya
Kenya is "one of our key friends in Africa - nay, in the world," said a confident, pleased United States (US) assistant secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor P Nagy, at a May 9 briefing in Was...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:03hrs | 5 | by Pearl Matibe
Mnangagwa charms young mother at Parirenyatwa Hospital
For first time mother Mrs Junior Dhliwayo Murehwa, her month-old twins were a double blessing, but like a gift that keeps giving, her boys yesterday charmed President Mnangagwa who gave the family a p...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Face to face with child abuse - The sad story of an orphan girl child
Shattered dreams. Shattered ambitions. Shattered life. Poverty, misery and dejection is written all over her face as she bears the burden of a heavy child strapped on her back walking down the road we...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 08:20hrs | 2 | by Zvishavane Resident
Mnangagwa launches supplementary feeding programme in Matabeleland North
FIRST Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa yesterday launched a supplementary feeding scheme aimed at curbing malnutrition and stunting in children aged between 6 and 59 months in Matabeleland North province....Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Safe Shelter, a haven for violence survivors
TWO police officers man the gate at Safe Shelter in Hauna, Nyanga. There are a few structures dotted around the yard, looking almost ordinary, but behind the walls, many "broken" women have found sola...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt called to extend maternity leave to 6 months
THE Mashonaland Central Junior Parliament has called on Government to extend maternity leave from three months to six months in line with the World Health Organisation's recommendations. This ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Organisations donate to teen mothers
150 packs of sanitary pads were donated to young mothers between the ages of 13 and 24 years from Hwange. The donation was made by Women Arise and Shine in partnership with Maternity and New Born Care...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 11:00hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
In Attorney Jessie Majome and Hilma Shindondola-Mote, Meme Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela Mandela lives on!
It is barely three months when we celebrated the life of of our heroine Ma Winnie Mandela in style: we never cried our eyes out mourning Winnie Mandela; instead, we had the opportunity to reflect on h...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 13:53hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
PEPFAR adds strength, endurance to Homeless World Cup preps
Harare, June 6, 2018: President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) tested over 100 individuals for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and shared health information with over 1000 community member...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 08:52hrs | 2 | by ZimPAS
Striking doctors, nurses dig in
A sense of despair has pervaded Zimbabwe's major hospitals as the standoff between the government and health workers has left critically ill patients stranded.Doctors at public health institut...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira: She got a healthy dose of beating!
Those are the words of Journalist Maynard Manyowa' yesterday's article about Linda on the 16th January on Bulawayo 24. This description Maynard of a physically mutilated woman, gender violence is nast...Published: 17 Jan 2017 at 22:56hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
4 500 Grade 7 pupils impregnated
At least 4 500 Grade Seven pupils countrywide, the majority of them girls, dropped out of school this year after falling pregnant or getting married, Parliament heard on Thursday. Primary and Seco...Published: 10 Dec 2016 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pregnancies, marriages force 4 500 primary kids to drop out, Dokora
A total of 4 500 primary pupils dropped out of school this year owing to pregnancies and marriages countrywide, parliament has heard. Primary and Secondary Education m...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 08:46hrs | | by Alice Dube
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