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Misihairambwi cements the plight of women
Former cabinet minister Priscilla Misihairambwi vows to support the emancipation of women prior to the Beinjing conference which was held 25 years ago, she was in Harare at a celebration event organis...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 14:22hrs | 727 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
WALPE celebrates international women's day
Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE), this week joined the nation and the rest of the world in commemorating the International Women's Day (IWD) under the theme: I am Genera...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 11:39hrs | 198 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's wife launches women driver training programme
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has launched the country's first ever driver safety training programme targeting women and youths, as part of broad-based measures to reduce road carnage. She is the patr...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 05:17hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
Masarira, Khupe speak out
Today is International Women's Day a day which is celebrated on the 8th of March every year.Two prolific women in Zimbabwe's political ...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 10:23hrs | 1800 | by Daniel Itai
WALPE, WLSA and Imba Mukadzi petition Parliament for full implementation of outstanding electoral reforms
Hundreds of aspiring women leaders drawn from all the country's ten provinces on 28 February 2020 gathered in Harare and petitioned the Parliament of Zimbabwe to implement outstanding electoral reform...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 09:05hrs | 329 | by Steve Grays
African Women Leaders Network - Zimbabwe Chapter launched
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday launched the African Women Leaders Network Zimbabwean Chapter (AWLNZC) in Victoria Falls where the 6th South African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (A...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 18:27hrs | 219 | by Innocent Mujeri
Mnangagwa challenges women to take up leadership positions
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has challenged women to take up leadership positions in the development agenda as they are the beacon of morality and integrity. He was speaking while officiating at the launch of ...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 05:57hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Forced sterilisation of women in South Africa exposed
Dozens of HIV-positive women in South Africa have been sterilised without their consent or were pressured to agree just before giving birth, an official inquiry has found.State hospitals had v...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 18:22hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa's constitutional amendments are raising dust
Pressure is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to abandon plans to amend the constitution with civil society groups plotting campaigns to derail the process.The government last year gaze...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:36hrs | 580 | by Everson Mushava
Aspiring women leaders reject Constitutional amendment bill number 2
One thousand aspiring women leaders who are members of WALPE have submitted 1 000 letters to Parliament on Thursday, 20 February 2020 rejecting the propos...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:06hrs | 194 | by Stephen Jakes
Iran marks 41 years of Islamic Revolution victory
On February 11, Iran marked the day the monarchy was officially toppled 10 days after the triumphant return from exile of the revolution's leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. This year's 41st...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:56hrs | 106 | by Tafadzwa Mugwadi
Sextortion haunts women
WHILE Zimbabwe has taken great strides in advancing gender equality, women are becoming more vulnerable to sexual abuse in the absence of both political and economic muscle to restore the balance....Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 07:10hrs | 1999 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records unprecedented jump in sextortion
Zimbabwe loses close to $2bn (£1.5bn) to corruption annually, contributing to financial instability, according to Transparency International. Photograph: BloombergZimbabwe has recorded an unp...Published: 08 Feb 2020 at 10:22hrs | 2436 | by Staff reporter
Polad rejects constitutional amendment
POLITICAL parties affiliated to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) yesterday rejected the proposed constitutional amendments, saying it was "too premature for the governm...Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1111 | by Staff reporter
How many Justices Dube-Banda does Zimbabwe have?
ZIMBABWE has had a long history of violence. In fact, it was a country raped by colonialists using violence in 1890 and gained its independence nearly a century later in 1980 through a violent liberat...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 09:10hrs | 1336 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
WALPE pushes for women training and educational programme on the electoral law and reforms
Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) has engaged into training and educating women on the electoral law and reforms.In a statement the organisation said on 21 Janu...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 06:33hrs | 187 | by Stephen Jakes
Malaba, Chiweshe collide over messy Chiwenga divorce
Chief Justice Luke Malaba and Judge President George Chiweshe are on a collision course after being dragged into Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's messy divorce from his wife, Marry Mubaiwa....Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 20:39hrs | 5621 | by Staff reporter
Imbokodo Zangempela empowers Zimbabwean women
Established in 2017, Imbokodo Zangempela (Distinctive Women) is an organisation that seeks to empower women of all age groups through educational, health, agricultural and entrepreneurship projects....Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 16:01hrs | 1219 | by Staff Reporter
'Chiwenga threat to rule of law'
High Court judge Justice Christopher Dube-Banda has described the use of the military by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga in kicking out his estranged wife, Marry (pictured), from the couple's matr...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1653 | by Staff reporter
Judge hammered Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has been ordered by the High Court to allow his estranged wife, Marry, to access the couple's Borrowdale matrimonial home after castigating his use of the military ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:20hrs | 2210 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga using military to settle matrimonial dispute'
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was on Friday forced to swallow a humble pie after a High Court judge told him that he was not above the law.Justice Dube Banda said what the politician pai...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:11hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Marry throws Chiwenga under the bus
Acting President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry has thrown another salvo at her husband, claiming the retired military commander is a dangerous character who uses the army to deal with pe...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:17hrs | 11943 | by Staff reporter
Law society challenges Mnangagwa's constitutional amendments
The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has said attempts by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to make fundamental changes to the national Constitution fly in the face of global democratic best ...Published: 15 Jan 2020 at 07:01hrs | 2033 | by Staff reporter
Women's group piles pressure for women to achieve gender equality
Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) has said it is concluding the year at a high note by engaging aspiring women leaders to share and discuss strategies to achieve gender e...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 14:18hrs | 140 | by Stephen Jakes
Personal letter to Advocate Fadzai Mahere: Interview with Trevor Ncube
Dear Ms. Mahere, I hope I find you well dear girl-child. Your interview with Trevor Ncube made me a proud mother. Not to repeat all you have already said in that groundbreaking interview: You ...Published: 20 Dec 2019 at 13:55hrs | 3986 | by Nomazulu Thata
Women ready to deliver Zanu-PF victory
Zanu-PF Women's League stands ready to meaningfully contribute to a 'big margin victory' in the 2023 harmonised elections, the wing's secretary for administration Monica Mutsvangwa, said yesterday....Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 12:06hrs | 395 | by Staff reportr
Police brutality frighten women off politics, says Mafume
Police brutality against women witnessed during the recent Hope of the Nation address by Nelson Chamisa in Harare represents the many threats that discourage female participation in political activiti...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 08:16hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Women's group engages MPs to push for gender equality
Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) has engaged Members of Parliament (MPs) on the need to push for the full implementation of gender equality provisions in the constitutio...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 09:17hrs | 241 | by Stephen Jakes
Jacob Mudenda under fire
Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda today expressed ignorance and a lack of concern over the legislative challenges and needs of persons with disabilities.Jacob Mudenda was speaking as one of ...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 18:04hrs | 2328 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Women hails organisation over its findings on women quota system
Women in Midlands and Bulawayo provinces have hailed the findings from the research conducted by Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) and Southern African Parliamentary Su...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 10:38hrs | 298 | by Stephen Jakes
Ammara Brown wants to settle down
Songstress Ammara Brown says she has been considering getting married but the amount of abuse that her mother suffered at the hands of their father was holding her back over the past years.Amm...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 13:17hrs | 3602 | by Staff reporter
The Menstrual Equity Journey: 200 million dollars later
The move by government to allocate $200 million for free sanitary wear for rural school girls who menstruate, in the 2020 National Budget, is a big step in the right direction towards ending period po...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:19hrs | 698 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
'HIV wears a woman's face'
In 2001 at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the former and late UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said "HIV has the face of a woman", and for decades even up to date it still has that face!&n...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 1219 | by Nyasha Phanisa Sithole
Mnangagwa's Cabinet reshuffle fails to impress
PRESDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet reshuffle last Friday, where he retained tired and incompetent ministers, including those tainted by corruption allegations, and assigned supposedly fresh minds t...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:18hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Women's organisations up in arms with Mnangagwa
Women's rights organisations have criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa for allegedly rewinding the clock several years backwards by appointing an all-male new team of top government officials, igno...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:10hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
Debunking myths surrounding the conduct of elections in Zimbabwe
THE founding tenets of Zimbabwe are based on respect for certain values and principles, which include, amongst others: the supremacy of the constitution, the rule of law, fundamental human rights and ...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:14hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions are anti-peace in Zimbabwe
The issue of sanctions and how they have impacted the social and economic welfare of the generality of Zimbabweans is of great relevance to the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission. Fi...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 06:58hrs | 154 | by Geoffrey T. Chada
Chamisa and the demon of patriarchy
In the past few weeks – ironically as late as last Friday – Zimbabwe's restive but graphically acerbic social media has been abuzz with one subject – the seemingly endangered righ...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 10:54hrs | 3063 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
MPs fret over lack of gender parity
ZIMBABWE'S number of serving female ambassadors now stands at 32%, an issue which Parliament says should be rectified in order to satisfy the constitutional requirements of 50/50 gender representation...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:45hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe girls 'take over' UN leadership
On Friday, in commemoration of International Day of the Girl Child, girls selected from the Junior Parliament of Zimbabwe through an essay competition took the helm of UN leadership replacing the role...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:12hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Activating GirlForce to dismantle insurmountable odds
She was only 14 years old, so young and full of life. She also had big dreams, just like any other young girl. And being at school was one sure way to achieve those dreams. But one day while she was i...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:43hrs | 417 | by Theresa F. Nyava
'New dispensation cushioning nation from sanctions'
The new dispensation is striving to cushion its people, especially women from the harsh effects of the illegal sanctions imposed on the country by Western nations, through a number of programmes guide...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:29hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
Women demand public apology from Chamisa
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa must make a public national apology for humiliating his wife Sithokozile in public, a women's rights group has said.The Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) in...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 21:46hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
Hunger drives young girls into prostitution
Starvation in Silobela has reportedly caused families to force young girls into prostitution as hunger continues to torment some parts of the country.This was revealed by Silobela Ward 30 Coun...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 06:05hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's richest: How they made their money
WHILST there is no official list of Zimbabwe's richest men and women, such as the one compiled by the Times and Forbes Magazine, the country has its fair share of rich people, including some who are m...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:26hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets Ramaphosa again
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa paid a courtesy call on President Emmerson Mnangagwa here yesterday, during which the two leaders had a wide-ranging tete-a-tete to share "successes and challen...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 2420 | by Staff reporter
Lest we forget: Women of the struggle
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe celebrates National Heroes Day, an important day on the national calendar to honour the gallant sons and daughters of the soil who made extraordinary sacrifices to liberate the coun...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Legislative reform agenda buttresses Mnangagwa's sincerity
This is the second part of a trilogy of articles that I am writing outlining the reform agenda being pursued by President Mnangagwa in the Second Republic. In the previous article I dwelt on political...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:16hrs | 102 | by Nick Mangwana
'No freedom after expression in Africa'
A PRELIMINARY report on the implementation of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG), has revealed gaps in implementing the African Union charter on human rights such as fr...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:23hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
MDC female Vice President lands top post in Mozambique
The MDC would like to congratulate its Vice President Lynette Karenyi for landing a top international post.It is hoped that the elevation of Hon. Karenyi will help the MDC enhance its regional pre...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 21:01hrs | 10256 | by Daniel Molokele
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