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Malinga advises against begging
Presidential advisor on disabilities Joshua Malinga has urged people with disabilities (PWDs) to grab available opportunities than survive on begging."There is a 15% quota reserved for all the...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 12:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean mum and son 'proud' volunteers at FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
A mother and son from Zimbabwe are part of the 20,000-strong volunteer team at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™.Rufaro Makambira-Chindalo is supporting operations at the Main Media Centre, whi...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:12hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
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
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
Mliswa speaks on disability
The Department of Social Welfare should engage in door-to-door collaction of data on people living with disabilities in order to get correct information, a senior Government official has said. ...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 23:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to resume issuance of grants
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says government will resume issuance of grants to institutions that cater for the disabled once the economy improves.The President was speaking during an interface...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 15:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Health, pension deal for informal sector
The National Social Security Authority (NSSA)'s much-awaited pension and health insurance schemes for the informal sector have been established, with paid-up beneficiaries being entitled to retirement...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 54 | by Linda T. Masarira
Hospital for disabled children opens
AN impromptu initiative in 2012 to rescue six dystrophic children of the Gwizo family from exclusionary and discriminatory setting that impeded their growth and chances of attaining full potential - h...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 08:53hrs | 5 | by Samuel Kadungure
Conman masquirade as donor targets women
A conman who masqueraded as a donor out to help disabled children has been arrested in connection with the offence.Shingirai Samukupe appeared before senior Mutare magistrate, Mrs Sekai Chiund...Published: 18 Dec 2015 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
This and that with Mal'phosa - You fired, god!
If the Greek lord of the sky and rain had been a real person with a job and family to support, he'd have found himself searching for another job and being disowned because of negligence and ineptitude...Published: 15 Nov 2015 at 18:01hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Woman hauls mother-in-law (71) to court
A 71-year-old Harare woman reportedly took her son away from his matrimonial home protesting against her daughter-in-law who had given birth to a disabled child, the civil court heard yesterday....Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 06:23hrs | | by Prosper Dembedza
Where do mothers with disabled children go, please help
A Zimbabwean woman residing in South Africa is appealing for financial and medical assistance to enable her to care of her daughter, who suffers from hydrocephalus. This is a cond...Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 15:40hrs | | by Magugu Nyathi
Parents ashamed to send disabled children to school - Dokora
Education minister Lazarus Dokora has called on parents to send children with disabilities to school saying he had realised that most did not as they were ashamed of their off spring."There ar...Published: 20 Sep 2014 at 17:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Involve disabled people in decision making'
Harare - People with disabilities often get sidelined in decision making and suffer discrimination within their families and communities that there live in, it has emerged.This came to lig...Published: 18 Jun 2014 at 11:07hrs | | by Portia Sigauke
Strive Masiyiwa launches EcoSchool initiative
Last week I travelled to Cape Town South Africa, to give a keynote address on "Mobile Telephony as a Development Tool" at the annual African gathering of the GSMA, a global association of the Mobile...Published: 21 Nov 2013 at 11:42hrs | | by Strive Masiyiwa
Disabled children stranded as Children's Home closes
AT least 40 children living with disabilities are stranded in Bulawayo following the closure of Emthunzini Wethemba Children's Home which offered day care services to them. Management at the Z...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 03:43hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Time to celebrate work of Zimbabwean heroes and heroines
The Webster Dictionary defines A hero as a man of distinguished courage, strength or ability, admired for his or her brave deeds. On Monday the 13th of August, Zimbabweans will gather at diffe...Published: 07 Jan 2013 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Conilious Toga.
Mugabe opens Children's Parliament
President Mugabe has called on society to uphold the interests and rights of children living with disability, saying efforts should be made to uplift their lives.Speaking at the 20th Session o...Published: 16 Jun 2012 at 22:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Help For Bulawayo Boy Thembani
Thembani Phiri (15) suffers from congenital elephantiasis, mostly caused by an obstruction of the lymphatic vessels, which results in extreme swelling of the skin and tissues, typically in the lower ...Published: 08 Feb 2012 at 08:42hrs | | by African baobab Foundation
Matabeleland North acquires audiometric equipment
MATABELELAND North Province has acquired audiometric testing equipment worth thousands of dollars to be used in determining pupils' hearing levels, the Chronicle reported Audiometric tests ar...Published: 17 Jan 2012 at 07:50hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Children with Disability Rights Neglected
(09-01-12, Bulawayo) Stigmatised by part of an increasingly intolerant society, neglected by a state that is short of resources and facing potential abuse in institutions, the lives of Zimbabwean c...Published: 09 Jan 2012 at 04:30hrs | 2 | by Thamsanqa Zhou Jr
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador calls for equal opportunities
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, musician Prudence Mabhena last week made the call for equal opportunities for children with disabilities. Mabhena was speaking on the commemorations of the International Da...Published: 08 Dec 2011 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Unemployed man (64) fending for two disabled children and a bed-ridden wife appealing for help
A Mudzi family is appealing for help from all Zimbabweans across the globe. Life will never be the same for 64 year-old Mudzi man, Titos Ndowa, after his wife who used to take care of their two disab...Published: 17 Oct 2011 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
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