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Government urged to support return of pregnant students to school
Harare, 19 July 2024 (New Ziana) - With a rising number of school-going adolescent girls becoming pregnant, Mashonaland Central Senator Angeline Tongogara has called on the Ministry of Public Service,...Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 10:14hrs | 494 | by Staff Reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt letting Matebeleland down'
Matebeleland South Senator Sithembile Mlotshwa has criticized the government for its failure to adequately build schools in the region, attributing this oversight to the rise in teenage pregnancies an...Published: 26 May 2024 at 13:49hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South records reduction in maternal deaths
Matebeleland South acting provincial medical director Andrew Muza says there has been a notable decline in institutional maternal deaths in the province since the launch of a health fund programme two...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 11:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Grade 7 pupil gives birth, writes exam from hospital bed
SHE is 13 years old but already a mother of a one-month-old baby girl.The girl, of Mkhosana in Victoria Falls, shocked all and sundry when she wrote part of her Zimsec Grade Seven general exam...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Medical xenophobia: It's time to level the power imbalance in healthcare facilities
I WAS extremely angry, but not shocked, by the utterances of South Africa's Limpopo Health MEC, Phophi Ramathuba.So many things ran through my mind as I watched the video. Having watched her b...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Shakira Choonara
Bulawayo records an increase in home births
BULAWAYO recorded an increase in home deliveries since January this year, a development which experts say may reverse gains made in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality rates in Zimbabwe.R...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 07:34hrs | 27 | by Staff Reporter
Pregnant girls troop back to school
SEVERAL teenage girls in Ntabazinduna who had dropped out of school after falling pregnant during the Covid-19 pandemic when schools were closed for the better part of last year have returned to schoo...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police close in on Johane Marange 'rapist' husband
POLICE in Manicaland province have reportedly arrested several members of the Johane Marange Apostolic sect in connection with a teenage mother who died while giving birth at the sect's shrine in Boch...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe lobbies for cushion fund for teenage mothers
MDC-T legislator Dr Thokozani Khuphe has lobbied the government to assist young girls who fell pregnant during the course of the Covid-19 induced national lockdown period in order to enable them to su...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Money for pregnant schoolgirls out soon
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has said it will soon start providing money to enable pregnant girls to continue with their education after Treasury allocated $123 million for the prog...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 23:23hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Fake pregnancy & baby theft lead to arrest
A BULAWAYO woman who faked pregnancy before she allegedly ganged up with a friend to steal a two-day old baby from a new teenage mum to impress her husband, has been arrested. Ngonidzashe Shav...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We can fix our country
I AM one of many Zimbabweans who witnessed the birth of an independent Zimbabwe 39 years ago.Apart from my own modest participation in the struggle for our independence, I do have a vivid memo...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by Paul Themba Nyathi
Teen mom strangles baby (2), burns corpse
An Epworth teenage mother appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday facing murder charges after she allegedly strangled her two-year-old baby to death before setting the room on fire to cove...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teen gives birth to baby with four teeth, breasts, pubic hair
In an incident that left Kwekwe residents shell shocked, 15-year-old girl gave birth to a child with four teeth, breasts and pubic hair.It is alleged Pamela Zezai gave birth to a child with fo...Published: 24 Dec 2016 at 10:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tale of gay Zimbabwean man in UK
LONDON - What does it feel like to be seeking sanctuary in the UK, and how are asylum seekers treated? Ishmael is a young gay man who flees Zimbabwe when his relationship with another man is discovere...Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 06:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Handbag baby dumper given a wholly suspended prison sentence
A TEENAGE mother who dumped her newborn baby in a handbag has been spared jail by a magistrate. Mercy Nyoni, 19, was given a wholly suspended 12-month prison sentence after Bulawayo magistrate...Published: 11 Mar 2015 at 07:00hrs | | by Nokusa Masuku
New-born baby shoved in a handbag
AN UNWANTED new-born-baby has been rescued alive after its teenage mother placed the tot in a plastic bag, shoved it in a handbag and buried it under a pile of clothes.Investigators believe th...Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 06:18hrs | | by Nokusa Masuku
Headmaster 'poisons infant son', now on the run
A SCHOOL head allegedly killed his two month-old baby after forcing the tot to drink a poisonous pesticide after a quarrel with his wife.Khangelani Zulu, 36, the headmaster of Jumbika Primary ...Published: 21 Feb 2015 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Oswell Moyo
Rare births, increase in babies born with split abdomen
The country's hospitals are experiencing bizarre cases of babies born with split abdomen, a rare condition known as gastroschisis.Gastroschisis is a birth defect of the abdominal (belly) w...Published: 28 Dec 2014 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Shamiso Yikoniko
Makanaka Wakatama regrets early marriage
They say experience is the best teacher.This adage aptly reflects on former television presenter Makanaka Wakatama's recent move to form a trust which is aimed at advocating for rights of youn...Published: 01 Aug 2014 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Farai Kuvirimirwa
Government should be applauded for empowering girl child
As the nation joins other countries in celebrating the Day of the African child in memory of the 1976 Soweto uprising, it is important to reflect on the challenges afflicting the girl child today....Published: 13 Jun 2014 at 10:52hrs | 1 | by Peacemaker Zano
12-year-olds forced into $1 sex
Girls as young as 12 are being forced into prostitution by "cartels" that are making them charge as little as $1 per "client", a report prepared by the Zimbabwe Youth Council in partnership with the U...Published: 06 Apr 2014 at 11:25hrs | 1 | by Lerato Ndlovu
Woman who intentionally poisoned her 2 kids set free by court
A Murambinda woman who poisoned her two children to death last year has been freed by the courts! Responding to the reason why she killed her two children, the teenage mother said she did so b...Published: 14 Jul 2013 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
A day with Zimbabwean refugees in Musina South Africa
MUSINA - There are more Zimbabweans than South Africans in this town according to the last official census in South Africa.Infact Musina, the busy border town between Zimbabwe and South Africa...Published: 23 Apr 2013 at 04:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Giant rats killed and ate two babies in South Africa
GIANT rats as big as cats killed and ate two babies in separate attacks in South Africa's squalid townships this week.Lunathi Dwadwa (3) was killed as she slept in her parent's shack in the K...Published: 03 Jun 2011 at 20:42hrs | 2 | by Moyo Roy
Rats bit baby to death, mother out partying
A baby was bitten to death on the weekend while her teenage mother was out partying.Concerned neighbours said they had heard a baby crying out in pain in the middle of the night â€â€...Published: 02 Jun 2011 at 19:28hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
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