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40,000 Zimbabwean teachers trained to combat early marriage, teen pregnancies
Over 40,000 teachers across the country have been trained to tackle the growing issue of early marriage and teenage pregnancies in schools, following revelations that 3,368 learners dropped out due to...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:14hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 350,000 teen pregnancies
Zimbabwe recorded close to 350,000 teen pregnancies of girls between the ages of 10 and 19 in three years, an official has said.Blessing Nyagumbo, UNFPA Zimbabwe's adolescent sexual health rep...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 15:37hrs | 13 | by Erick Matotoba
Mugabe, Nkomo receive statue honours
Two statues are set to be erected for the late former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and the late Vice President, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo at two separate points in Harare in recognition of t...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Castrate paedophiles, says minister
INFORMATION and Publicity minister Monica Mutsvangwa says paedophiles should be castrated to deter men from sleeping with underage girls.Mutsvangwa made the comments after Matabeleland North p...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parental negligence fuelling teen pregnancies
COMMUNITY leaders say the prevailing economic hardships have forced parents to abandon their children, making them vulnerable to sexual abuse.This came out during engagements on gender-based v...Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
War on shocking teen pregnancies
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tawananyasha (surname withheld) is six months pregnant with a man whose real name and age she does not know.The two met when the minor was a housemaid while the man was a gard...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:01hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Churches speak against early child marriages
Churches in Mashonaland Central have castigated early child marriage which is rampant in the province.According to Zimbabwe Gender Comm...Published: 15 May 2022 at 15:36hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe teen pregnancy rate rises
ZIMBABWE'S teenage pregnancy rate has risen by two percent to 24 percent, with the majority being schoolgirls that are forced to drop out of school.The worrying trend has also led to debate ov...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lauded for safeguarding girl child education
ZIMBABWE has been lauded for being one of the African countries that are deliberately safeguarding the right to education for pregnant girls and adolescent mothers through amendments to the Education ...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teenage pregnancies shoot up
A total of 4 475 pregnancies have been recorded for girls aged between 15 and 19 years in all eight districts in Mashonaland Central during the lockdown period stretching from March 2020 to February t...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga endorses Mnangagwa wife's initiative
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday attended First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's educative Gota/Nhanga/Ixhiba programme at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) and concurred with her tha...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
School fees to go up 33%
THE Government has given schools the green light to increase fees through a prorata system that will see some classes pay an extra 33 percent to cover for the extra days of the term, as schools open f...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Auxilia Mnangagwa more than a hero, she deserves the award
As Zimbabwe prepares to honour their living and non-living heroes in an annually occasion, the president in his wisdom has taken this opportunity to honour some people past and present heroes. ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 23:37hrs | 23 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa commends his wife
President Mnangagwa has hailed the philanthropic work by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa through her Angel of Hope Foundation. The President said this during yesterday's 41st Independence Day ce...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
5 000 schoolgirls impregnated in January, February
When schools opened their doors for the new year on March 15 and March 22, a significant number of female learners did not turn up for classes, and there are now disturbing reports explaining why....Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 08:20hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Beitbridge records increase in teenage pregnancies
BEITBRIDGE recorded an increase in teenage pregnancies and early child marriages, particularly in areas closer to illegal exit and entry points to neighbouring South Africa where there is a thriving i...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Red flag raised over rising teen pregnancies
MANGWE District social welfare officer Sicelo Nyathi has expressed concern over the rise in the number of young girls from Mangwe district in Matabeleland South province that are engaging in wild part...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown brews teen pregnancies
The prolonged period of inactivity spawned by the Covid-19-induced lockdown, which began on March 30, is brewing cases of juvenile delinquency, with a local organisation reporting a 60 percent rise in...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Tendai Chara and Veronica Gwaze
Men rape daughters in bizarre rituals
DISTURBING reports have surfaced from some remote parts of Mbire district in Mashonaland Central where some fathers are allegedly raping their daughters and forcing them into incestuous relationships ...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:32hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
16 students fall pregnant at same school in 10 months
A secondary school in Chirumanzu district in Midlands province has been hit by a spate of student pregnancies, recording a staggering 16 pregnancies in the past 10 months.National Aids Council...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 08:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggles with teen pregnancies
TEENAGE pregnancies, which are a major contributor to maternal and child mortality, remain high at 22 percent in the country at a time Government has set a target to reduce them to 12 percent by 2020....Published: 08 Jul 2017 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dear black people, forgive us as we march for white privilege
But instead of ridiculing our belated anger, come teach us how to march. Teach us how to have solidarity. Teach us how to be South Africans, writes Marius Oosthuizen.Some blacks are angry that...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 17:48hrs | 1 | by Marius Oosthuizen
A girl-child's domestic chores; child labour? or acquiring a traditional woman's apprenticeship
Who has ever seen the agony of a woman in a maternity ward, having just delivered a girl-child instead of a boy-child she had hoped to get to solidify the marriage? She breaks down and cries, sh...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 23:12hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa contradicts Tomana
THE government disapproves of early child marriages and teenage pregnancies as they are detrimental to the country's socio-economic growth, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday. VP...Published: 20 Jun 2015 at 14:14hrs | 1 | by Patrick Chitumba
'Injivas' blamed for teenage pregnancies
Zimbabwean men who have migrated to South Africa have been accused of fueling teenage pregnancies in Matabeleland South province posing challenges to the country's target of lowering maternal mortalit...Published: 30 Jul 2014 at 21:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Retired sex workers open prostitution consultancy in Zimbabwe
Working in an industry notorious for rape, abuse and disease, retired sex workers in Zimbabwe have opened a prostitution consultancy catering to younger sex workersOne of the elderly women who...Published: 16 Jul 2014 at 10:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teen pregnancy rate goes down in Guruve
CASES of teen pregnancies and early marriages have significantly gone down in Guruve district in Mashonaland Central province in the past three years, following the intensive awareness campaigns by l...Published: 20 Oct 2013 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Ministry should prioritise abstinence in sex education curriculum for teens
PARENTS have called on the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to prioritise abstinence in their sex education curriculum to combat teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) ...Published: 13 Oct 2013 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Heavily pregnant teen boys Ads cause a stir.
A new ad campaign for Chicago Department of Public Health's Office of Adolescent and School Health featuring pregnant teenage boys has caused a stir.The teen pregnancy prevention campaign feat...Published: 07 Jun 2013 at 09:19hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Pupils are having sex in empty classrooms says junior senator
Masvingo - Pupils are having sex in empty classrooms, in the school grounds or sneak out of boarding to meet at night clubs and for schools to continue to deny them access to condoms is to refuse to a...Published: 24 Aug 2012 at 14:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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