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Ablism must fall!
My blood boils when I think about how some people normalise the treatment of persons with disabilities as second class citizens in Zimbabwe even against the existence of government policy and pronounc...Published: 04 Nov 2023 at 10:02hrs | 14 | by Abraham Mateta (Mukoma A)
Zimbabwean judge joins Sadc Tribunal
ZIMBABWEAN judge Justice Rodgers Foroma Manyangadze has been sworn in at the Southern African Development Community Administrative Tribunal (SADCAT).SADCAT has seven judges.Other judge...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | | 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
Zimbabwe's Chief Fortune Charumbira elected President of Pan African Parliament
Zimbabwe's Chief Fortune Charumbira has been elected new President of the African Parliament.The African legislative arm of the African Union is holding an ordinary session at its South Africa...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 20:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
FC Platinum awarded points after Bosso found guilty
HIGHLANDERS has been found guilty of missile throwing by their fans in their abandoned Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match against FC Platinum at Mandava Stadium on April 23 and were fined US$6 0...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso blame police for Mandava violence
BULAWAYO giants Highlanders have blamed the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) for the violence that led to abandonment of their Castle Lager Premiership football match against FC Platinum at Mandava Stad...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 18:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso condemn pitch invasion
HIGHLANDERS have condemned pitch invasion by a section of fans and lashed out at "overzealous" police details for firing tear smoke resulting in abandonment of their Castle Lager Premier Soccer League...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic posts impressive results for year end 2021
Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank has shrugged off the adverse effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdowns to post an inflation adjusted ...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 08:12hrs | 4 | by Agencies
People living with albinism need help
Tinevimbo is an outgoing bubbling sixth-grader who finds it difficult to make friends. Most girls look at her mockingly and sometimes with utter disdain. During break time at school, no one wa...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 11:56hrs | 9 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Stanbic assists people living with albinism
Stanbic Bank has once again come to support people living with albinism by donating an assortment of sun protection products worth over ZW$ 1. 6 million to the Albino Charity Organisation of Zimbabwe ...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 10:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda to brief Mnangagwa on PAP row
The dispute last week over whether the presidency of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) pitting delegates from North and Southern Africa against those from East, West and Central Africa should help the ...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira shoo-in for Pan-African Parliament presidency
PRESIDENT of the Chiefs Council, Senator Fortune Charumbira is among three contenders for the Pan-African Parliament (Pap) presidency after he was announced the sole candidate to represent southern Af...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Who are Matabeles?
The Matabele were once feared, adored and hated and now they are discriminated against. Why are they hated so? They are hated by the west as the Jews whom Constantine described as "odious people", so ...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 16:13hrs | | by T D Mkwananzi
Bid to bring Chelsea Legends to Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Chapter of registered fans of English Premiership giants, Chelsea, have embarked on an audacious bid to bring the London club's legends to come and play in this country. The suppo...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:45hrs | 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
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
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
WATCH: Homeless mother with disabled child seeks help
Dear editor, My name is Idah Sithole a poor woman dependent on earnings from household chores for people around Tara Store, Mvurwi.I look after my disabled daughter and my albino grand...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 19:13hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
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
Superstition: Africa's worst nightmare after poverty
Every part of the world has had their fair share of ignorance; especially, the naivety that accompanies the weird beliefs people grow into believing. But while other continents seem to be gradually mo...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 09:50hrs | | by Nimi Princewill
U.S. calls for stronger action against human trafficking
A senior United States Embassy official has called for sterner reaction by individuals to individuals and companies involved in human trafficking, among other measures to stamp the scourge that ...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Challenges faced by Disabled persons and how the Government can intervene
Background to ChallengesDisability is viewed different by different people based on their socio economic positions. For as Africans, disability is viewed as spiritual a curse despite medical e...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 06:20hrs | 41 | by Linda T. Masarira
Parliament roasts Zimdef boss over misplaced priorities
The University of Zimbabwe's (UZ) nanotechnology department has developed a highly effective lotion for albinos, but is failing to patent and commercialize it due to lack of funds.This was dis...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
TB Joshua splashes N10m ($33,000) on Nigerian deportees from Libya
A group of Nigerian deportees from Libya have revealed harrowing details of their thwarted efforts to illegally travel to Europe.Fifty-two of the 154 who were deported from the North African c...Published: 17 Oct 2016 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Ihechukwu Njoku
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
Malawi Albinos hunting irks Zimbabwe MP
The hunting of Albino children in Malawi has irked the Zimbabwe member of the house of assembly Fortune Chasi who raised concerns over the reports that Albino children were being snatched from their m...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mob burns 7 to death over suspected witchcraft
Blantyre - A mob in Malawi's southern district of Nsanje burned seven people to death for allegedly possessing human bones for use in witchcraft, police said on Wednesday.The seven were "f...Published: 02 Mar 2016 at 11:06hrs | | by Agencies
Snake used as car security
IT MAY be an old Toyota Tazz but it must be the safest car in town. Its owner need never worry about the car being stolen. Daily Sun reported that who will steal a car with a giant alb...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
KING Goodwill Zwelithini speak on killing of albinos
ZULU KING Goodwill Zwelithini has called for severe punishments for people who kill albinos for muthi.The king was delivering his keynote address to mark the opening of the KZN Legislature at ...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 12:36hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Help us find missing man' - WhatsApp Update
07:58, 5 Feb - +27 7* *** ****: Hello, I would like to share a story of a missing man his name is Sibusiso Goodman Puli age 27 years he went missin...Published: 05 Feb 2015 at 14:43hrs | | by SA Resident
Where is omasiganda music now?
Music When I was aged 10, my school teacher organised a train trip from Mutare to Victoria Falls during the Easter holidays. That was the first time I experienced a train ride in my life. We were a g...Published: 26 Jan 2015 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Fred Zindi
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
Is Bev bleaching or its good living?
Controversial adult entertainer Beverly "Bev" Sibanda has dismissed rumours that she bleached her skin following reports that her skin was now lighter than usual.The 23 year old insisted that...Published: 26 Aug 2014 at 18:11hrs | | by Brenda Phiri
UZ develops herbal cream for albinos
The University of Zimbabwe in partnership with local scientists has developed a herbal cream using nanotechnology to be used by albinos, a parliamentary committee has heard.Nanotechnology is t...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF to clamp down on sects promoting Satanism & homosexuality
ZANU-PF has threatened to clamp down and ban emerging religious groups and sects deemed to be promoting Satanism and homosexuality.Addressing delegates attending the party's 14th annual confe...Published: 18 Dec 2013 at 04:05hrs | | 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
Professor John Makumbe to be buried at his rural home
University of Zimbabwe lecturer Professor John Makumbe, who died in Harare on Saturday, will be buried at his rural home in Buhera on Wednesday.MDC-T spokesperson Mr Douglas Mwonzora said Pro...Published: 29 Jan 2013 at 04:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
African intellectuals should be jailed
Africa, the lowliest of the continents is still nocturnal. It is in this disposition that it emerges a superpower, greater than the United States, Britain, and China combined. In the night, when the w...Published: 04 Apr 2012 at 04:59hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Residents burn church down over missing boy
Kenya - RESIDENTS of Mwembe Legeza in Bamburi on Thursday evening burnt a church accusing its pastor of kidnapping a four-year-old boy. They first demolished the Apostle Congregation Ministries before...Published: 10 Mar 2012 at 10:33hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Miss Zimbabwe 2012 contestants unveiled
HARARE - Miss Zimbabwe Trust unveiled pictures of contestants of this year's pageant to be held on February 25 in Harare.The beauties mostly in their teens and 20s come from wide-rangin...Published: 29 Jan 2012 at 06:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Snake with two heads that think and eat separately
London - A snake with two heads, each able to think and eat separately and even steal food from each other, has become a popular attraction at a Ukrainian zoo.The small albino California Kings...Published: 15 Jul 2011 at 13:40hrs | | by Matthews Estell
FOG Pastor forsakes teenage albino
A teenage albino orphan from Macheke, Simbarashe Mazivanei, who had been staying at the Family of God Church since the death of his mother in 2006 was allegedly sent packing by a newly appointed Past...Published: 04 Mar 2011 at 17:45hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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