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Zimbabwe fears HIV setbacks despite global praise
Zimbabwe has earned widespread international praise for its achievements in the fight against HIV, with the latest UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2025 placing the country among a selec...Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 21:49hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Africa's inequality crisis: How government systems fuel corruption and entrench elitism
A recent Oxfam report has ignited renewed scrutiny of Africa's political and economic order, revealing a disturbing truth: while a handful of billionaires accumulate staggering wealth, hundreds of mil...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 07:12hrs | 209 | by James Mathonsi
Zimbabwean women make gains in property ownership
Women in Zimbabwe are making significant strides in securing access to economic resources such as land, property, and digital financial services, according to findings from the 2023–2024 Zimbabwe De...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 13:30hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's women in serious bedroom drought crisis
A startling revelation from the latest 2023–24 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) has lifted the lid on a silent but significant crisis affecting Zimbabwean marriages: a growing number of...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 18:30hrs | 2717 | by Staff reporter
Empowering African women to thrive in a digital economy
Growing up with her hardworking mom in tough circumstances in Nigeria, Dominion Paul was determined to forge her path to success in a world that didn't always make space for her. When she discovered t...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 09:43hrs | 160 | by Tamaryn Brown
Mnangagwa expected in Bulawayo today
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected in Bulawayo where he will officiate at the Concord Young Women in Business Global ICT graduation ceremony at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF)....Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe closing gender gaps in technology, says Mutsvangwa
The Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Senator Monica Mutsvangwa says the Second Republic is actively working towards bridging gender gaps which exist in innovation and tech...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 23:14hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF official vociferously defends Murehwa violence
AN UNIDENTIFIED official, purporting to be a Zanu-PF functionary says the party has declared war on the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as the ruling party and CCC "trade blows" and counter accusa...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 18:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Half of Zimbabwe youths loafing'
ABOUT half of Zimbabwean youths are loafing, the latest Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) 2022 second quarter labour force survey has revealed, laying bare the job crisis facing the countr...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
'We're a friend to all, an enemy to none'
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE, HIS EXCELLENCY, DR E. D. MNANGAGWA, AT THE GENERAL DEBATE OF THE 77TH SESSION O...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:50hrs | 14 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
Young Women for ED Gwanda outreach launched
THE Young Women for Economic Development (YWED) has spread its wings countrywide with the Gwanda chapter launched.The women empowerment oriented organisation last year successfully launched ou...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Girls in Zimbabwe are still technologically backwards
Labour Economists and Afrikan Democrats (LEAD) President Linda Tsungirirai Masarira has said girls in Zimbabwe are still technologically backwards.He said this as the nation celebrates the Int...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zim back sliding into poverty
Zimbabwe is sliding into high level poverty, lack of proper health care, and corruption despite significant progress in climate action, education, and electricity.Afrobarometer Sustainable Dev...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 12:10hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Worsening period poverty in Zimbabwe calls for urgent action
For the first time since 2009, Zimbabwe's economy is projected to slide into a recession this year, with real GDP going down to -5.2%, the lowest economic growth rate in Africa this year. Inflation is...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 10:58hrs | 24 | by Theresa Nyava
Young African women turn to coding
At Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Angela Koranteng was an accomplished student with a special dream. At a time when few women were breaking the gender barrier in male-dominated st...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 16:24hrs | 20 | by Fatimatou Sene
Corporate boardrooms: Where are the women?
A lack of diversity afflicts most companies' boardsWhen a woman rises to the top rung of the traditionally all-male corporate ladder in Africa, it's fro...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 15:55hrs | 2 | by Kwamboka Oyaro
MDC women raps Zanu PF over unfair treatment of women
MDC Women Assembly National Spokesperson Thamarie Chimanzi has rapped Zanu PF government over unfair treatment of women and vowed to lobby for more women to register to vote to get rid of ...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC (Ncube) WA Statement on International Women's Day
The MDC Women Assembly on this International Day of Women calls upon all women of Zimbabwe to take a stand in response to the hardships and misery inflicted on citizens by the ruthless ZANU PF governm...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 11:18hrs | | by Thamarie Chimanzi
Why we will vote for RG Mugabe again
This great success did not come by accident - it's due to the deliberate educational policies of the Zanu-PF Government under the visionary leadership of President RG Mugabe. He poured resources into ...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 10:16hrs | 2 | by Dr Ignatius Chombo
Facts on gender gap in labour in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Comparing Zimbabwe and Mozambique re Gender Labour Gap #WomenAtWorkZW...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 19:28hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Millions of girls remain out of school
The gender gap has narrowed, but progress is starting to stall Bright-eyed and clever, a young girl from a small village in Malawi shares her wish ...Published: 06 Jun 2015 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Franck Kuwonu
Gender equality within reach
Some progress made, but challenges remain When the Rwandan delegation went to Beijing, China, in 1995 for the landmark women's conference, just a y...Published: 06 Jun 2015 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Zipporah Musau
'Setting a bait for women's vote'
As we enter 2015 women must reflect on the milestones reached in our quest to attain the critical question of inclusive development as a country, it is worrisome to find that we have yet again gone 10...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 10:37hrs | 15 | by Ms M.Gumede
Women farmers on the rise in Zimbabwe
The spike in women managing their own agricultural land following Zimbabwe's 2000 land reform programme catapulted the country to high up in the African league of female farmers tilling their own farm...Published: 30 May 2014 at 11:35hrs | 1 | by IRIN
Over 190 000 drop out of school yearly
- 10 to 15 percent children have never attended primary school - Only 47 percent of children proceed to secondary school - Rural pupils more likely to drop out of school - Econ...Published: 06 Apr 2013 at 21:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prof Madhuku loses election challenge
JUDGE President Justice George Chiweshe has dismissed a National Constitutional Assembly application to defer the referendum from March 16 on the basis that the President's powers to set the date were...Published: 28 Feb 2013 at 19:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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