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Zimbabwe govt to establish VTCs in all districts
The Zimbabwean Government has launched an ambitious plan to establish Vocational Training Centres (VTCs) in every district, aiming to enhance skills development among the country's youth. The initiati...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 06:40hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Sadc reiterates call for Zimbabwe sanctions removal
The 44th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government, held in Zimbabwe, renewed its call for the removal of Western-imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe, emphasizing that these punitive measures negatively ...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:00hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Scandal erupts in Zimbabwe Young Farmers partnership with ADDI
In a recent letter addressed to Mr. Joseph Kakoto, Executive Director of Zimbabwe Young Farmers Sustainable Development, Brenda Mudzimu, the Executive Director of Albinism and Disability Development I...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 10:40hrs | 8 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Barbara Clara Makhalisa Nkala Trust awards indigenous language authors
LITERARY polymath Barbara Clara Makhalisa-Nkala has honoured a quartet of IsiNdebele authors through her Barbara Clara Makhalisa Nkala Literary Trust (BCMNLT) in order to preserve indigenous language ...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Ordinary Zimbabweans bear the brunt of sanctions'
A "GO FUND ME" campaign for a Nkayi family living with albinism was stopped midway after the online fundraising platform said Zimbabweans could not run the initiative since the country was under econo...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 20:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rains expected over this weekend
PARTS of Matabeleland South, Masvingo and Manicaland will see cool winds and light rain over the weekend, the Meteorological Services Department said yesterday.In an interview, Met Department ...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shot in the arm for people with albinism
Stanbic Bank has lived up to its reputation as a community-centric institution by donating ZW$24. 7 million worth of sun protection products to the Albino Charity Organisation of Zimbabwe (ALCOZ). ...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
People living with albinism need help
Tinevimbo is an outgoing bubbling sixth-grader who finds it difficult to make friends. Most girls look at her mockingly and sometimes with utter disdain. During break time at school, no one wa...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 11:56hrs | 9 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Stanbic assists people living with albinism
Stanbic Bank has once again come to support people living with albinism by donating an assortment of sun protection products worth over ZW$ 1. 6 million to the Albino Charity Organisation of Zimbabwe ...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 10:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic donates USD $34K worth of sun protection products to people living with albinism
HARARE - 20 NOVEMBER 2020 Stanbic Bank has donated sun protection products worth US$34 000 to the Albino Charity Organization of Zimbabwe (ALCOZ) as part of its annual Corporate Social Investment (CSI...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 15:49hrs | | by Agencies
Pick n' Pay shop in albino storm
HEADS are set to roll at TM Pick n' Pay Masvingo branch after a woman with albinism was denied shopping by staff when she declined to be sanitised at the entrance claiming her skin would react to the ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets teachers
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday met representatives of teachers with disabilities to have an appreciation of their plight in the discharge of the educational duties. The meeting was held at the ...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Living Your Purpose - book review
LIVING YOUR PURPOSEBook review by Brian MaregedzeVOLUME 1, FRANK NYAMUNDERO, ISBN: 978-0-620-69214, 2017Printed by: Media EssentialsCover Design: Media magnet advertising"I bel...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 19:23hrs | | by Brian Maregedze
2nd Annual Albinism Health Fair
Global Aid Missions Zimbabwe, a non-governmental organization that supports people with Albinism will be hosting its 2nd Annual Albinism Health Fair on Saturday 22nd of June at the Harare Gardens. The...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 09:30hrs | 1 | by GAM
Discipline mustn't be administered through brutality
The problem of child abuse is getting out of hand and our society must act now to stop the terrible crimes against innocent children.Recently, the Midlands community awoke to the shocking news...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:55hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
A dying (public) intellectualism in Zimbabwe
THE late Masipula Sithole taught me (and many others) how to perceive and think about our country, Zimbabwe's politics.Not only formally via the university lecture room, but also more signific...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:54hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
First ever albinism free clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe
Global Aid Missions, a non-governmental organization that supports people with Albinism, has opened the first ever albinism free clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe. The GAM Health Clinic situated at number 53...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 19:37hrs | | by Angecies
BAZ boss grilled over issuance of radio, TV licences
BROADCASTING Authority of Zimbabwe chief executive, Obert Muganyura was yesterday grilled by Parliament over issuance of Oracle Virtual Directory (OVD) webcast radio and television licences this year ...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 10:50hrs | | by Staf reporter
Shock as ZTV broadcaster says albinism is witchcraft
The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has ZTV and one of its religious programs broadcaster known as P. Nyaude for broadcaster misleading information that albinism is a pr...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 13:08hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
PJ Powers in sterling performance
MUSIC legend, PJ Powers, lived up to her billing as she put up a sterling, intimate two-hour performance at the Elephant Hills Resort on Saturday night. The show was aimed at increasing awaren...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
PJ Powers in Victoria Falls for albinism awareness
POPULAR South African musician Penelope Jane Dunlop - popularly known as PJ Powers or Thandeka - is in Victoria Falls for an awareness show for people living with albinism.PJ PowersPJ Powers t...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls awaits PJ Powers
INTERNATIONAL jazz music icon, PJ Powers, is expected to jet into Victoria Falls tomorrow morning ahead of her charity show in the resort town on Saturday. All proceeds from the show, which ha...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Human rights groups raise red flag over voting process
HUMAN rights groups have expressed concern over the treatment of people with disabilities (PWDs) during the just-ended elections, with most of them experiencing challenges at polling stations....Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Global Aids Missions to provide free health services for people with albinism, special conditions
In a move that is set to benefit hundreds of people living with albinism, special conditions and disabilities in the country, a local non-governmental organization, Global Aid Missions, in partnership...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 10:13hrs | | by Nicole Hondo
Albino Trust of Zimbabwe 'techs' care
The Albino Trust of Zimbabwe will be commemorating International Albinism Awareness Day with the official opening of a special needs resource centre on 13 June 2018 at its Borrowdale offices.V...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by NANGO
'Chamisa ignores youth, women quotas'
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T has come under fire from its members for disregarding its women, youth and disabled quota system and allowing candidates representing the special interest groups to be cha...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Albinism should not be a hindrance to education'
Children with albinism often perform badly in school not because they are less intelligent but because their teachers and peers are still ignorant of their specific needs.Addressing an Albinis...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 08:50hrs | | by Nicole Hondo
NMB Bank donates to Albino Trust of Zimbabwe
NMB Bank last week presented a computer to the Albino Trust of Zimbabwe to help it with access to information at its offices in Borrowdale. The computer was requested by the Trust, which said ...Published: 21 May 2018 at 11:05hrs | 7 | by Agencies
Chamisa looks to rejuvenate rural areas
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa wants to modernise the rural hinterland to boost rural incomes and living standards, according to a policy statement he unveiled on Saturday and Sunday in Seke an...Published: 03 May 2018 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Road to Victory (R2V): Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday
Seke: A despondent people who can no longer afford the laughter and the smileFellow Zimbabweans, in keeping with our Gogogoi Tisvikewo/Ekuhle campaign, I was in rural Seke and Mhondoro over th...Published: 01 May 2018 at 12:40hrs | | by Adv Nelson Chamisa
Chiwenga steps down
AFTER six years at the helm of Miss World Zimbabwe Marry Chiwenga has stepped down from organising the pageant and now the question is what next for the pageant.The chapter is closed for Chiwe...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe landlords shun albino tenants
Landlords across the country's suburbs are avoiding albino tenants, perpetuating the intense stereotypes that the minority group continues to suffer, the Albino Charity Organisation of Zimbabwe (ALCOZ...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Government demands albinism policy proposal
The government has instructed the National Disability Board to present a proposal for framing a policy that deals with albinism in the country.Addressing hundreds of people during the launch o...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 22:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Govt unfreezes 2 000 nursing posts
GOVERNMENT has begun deploying unemployed nurses to various work stations across the country following the unfreezing of 2 000 posts, the Health Services Board (HSB) has said.The deplo...Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Killed for their bones - On the trail of the trade in human body parts in Malawi
Al Jazeera English has launched Killed for their bones - On the trail of the trade in human body parts, an investigation into the rising number of hate crimes against persons with albinism in Malawi....Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 12:45hrs | 1 | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Daily News milks a call from Mugabe's spokesman
Moved by a comment that the country's most influential newspaper wrote in its edition of yesterday, regarding how Zanu PF is honouring him on his birthday, President Robert Mugabe yesterday thanke...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 16:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP's music deplores plight of war vets
Parliamentarian and former deputy minister of Justice, Fortune Chasi (Mazowe South MP Zanu-PF) has ventured into the world of music, singing against political violence, highlighting the plight of war ...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Albino attempted murderer gets life in jail
A court sitting in the northern Malawi’s city of Mzuzu has sentenced to life imprisonment 33-year-old Sam Kaumba for attempting to kill an albino.With panga knives in his hands ready to slic...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 16:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Malawi bans foreign witch doctors
Lilongwe - Malawi has banned foreign witch-doctors from plying their trade in the southern African nation in a bid to curb a rising wave of abductions, attacks and killings of albinos.So far 1...Published: 28 May 2016 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Activists in Malawi call for action over albino killings
Attacks against people with albinism this year have also been reported in Burundi, Mozambique and Zambia - Al Jazeera The targeting and killing of people with albinism in Malawi has a rea...Published: 07 May 2016 at 08:06hrs | | by AFP
Senator Shiri laments lack of good facilities at Early Childhood centres
Senator Annah Shiri has lamented that most of the early Childhood learning centres in the country lacks good learning facilities which may affected the learning process of the minors.Speaking ...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 06:51hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Grace Mugabe, Simon Muzenda and the baboon
It was in 2000 when former Vice President Simon Muzenda's fallout with Dr. Eddison Zvobgo became a matter of public record. Addressing a rally in Chivi, rural Masvingo at a time when ZANU PF was...Published: 13 Oct 2015 at 14:10hrs | 5 | by Moses Chamboko
Superstitious men rape women with albinism to cure HIV
Some superstitious Zimbabwean men living with HIV are said to be raping women with albinism believing they will be cured of the virus.The Zimbabwe Albino Association (Zimas) estimates 70 perce...Published: 28 Sep 2014 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
UZ in TB, albinism drugs breakthrough
The University of Zimbabwe is developing drugs that increase absorption of tuberculosis medication and help people living with albinism, an official has said.UZ pharmaceutical department lect...Published: 11 Apr 2014 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mangoma's sorry tale
The MDC in general and the 'T' faction in particular, is an association whose DNA is heavily steeped in violence. It was borne out of violence and currently faces grim prospects of a self-inflicted vi...Published: 04 Feb 2014 at 07:04hrs | | by Sambulo Vuma
Winners of the 2013 Regional Children's Reporting Awards announced
WINDHOEK NAMIBIA - On Friday 29 November 2013, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and Save the Children International announced this year's winners of the Regional Children's Reporting ...Published: 04 Dec 2013 at 09:46hrs | | by MISA
Shiri, Mashavakure to represent persons living with disabilities
ORGANISATIONS representing people living with disabilities yesterday elected Mr Nyamayabo Mashavakure and Ms Annah Shiri to represent them in Senate in line with the new Constitution. Al...Published: 03 Aug 2013 at 03:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
People living with albinism appeal to govt for sunscreen medication
PEOPLE living with albinism have bemoaned lack of sunscreen medication in the country's health institutions including pharmacies, putting their lives in great danger.Zimbabwe Albino Associatio...Published: 23 Jun 2013 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Witches targets albinos
Albinos, whose body parts are prized by witch doctors, are being attacked in rising numbers in Tanzania, with children who are still alive having their limbs chopped off, the top United Nations (UN) H...Published: 06 Mar 2013 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I am now a professional mourner,' says Tsvangirai
POLITICAL commentator and university lecturer Professor John Makumbe was laid to rest in rural Buhera on Wednesday - in the same constituency he hoped to represent as MP after the next elections....Published: 31 Jan 2013 at 04:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
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