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William Ruto visits Germany: German press rebukes his claims about labour contracts.
It does not matter how one looks at this story; it is not only shameful to Kenya: it must shame all Africans equally. Recently, President Willian Ruto was on a state visit to Germany, and was proud to...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 22:06hrs | 794 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe's teacher-to-learner ratio straining education system
THE country is grappling with significant educational challenges, demanding immediate attention and action.With over five million learners in both primary and secondary schools across the coun...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to revive chieftainships abolished by colonisers
President Mnangagwa has said Government will continue resuscitating chieftainships that were abolished by the Rhodesian settler regime and implored chiefs to foster peace and unity as the country head...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Ndiweni cautions Mnangagwa's wife
EXILED former Ntabazinduna chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Felix Ndiweni has advised First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa to respect local cultural norms and values during her planned visit to Ntabazinduna for a men's...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Old sex workers lament stiff competition on streets
LIKE any other business, old sex workers in Bulawayo are also facing a similar situation of business competition as they are being pushed out of the "nocturnal" trade due to strong competition from yo...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mixed reactions to age of consent ruling
LAWYERS yesterday reacted differently to the Constitutional Court's Tuesday ruling that raised the age of consent for sexual relations from 16 to 18, to meet the minimum age of marriage as set in the ...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 killed in bar brawl
A member of the security services allegedly entered a bar in Mhondoro-Ngezi armed with an AK47 assault rifle and fatally shot five people on Christmas Day after being accused of proposing love to an u...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 06:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Man offers daughter (15) to appease avenging spirits
A man from Zhombe area in Kwekwe district allegedly married off his minor daughter to appease an avenging spirit while another one from the same area is reportedly forcing his under-age daughter to en...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:40hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Husband' of a 14-year-old girl who died during child birth arrested
The "husband" of a 14-year-old girl who died during child birth is behind bars after he was charged with having sex with a minor.Evans Momberume is set to appear at the Mutare Magistrates Cour...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa savages Miles Tendi over Mnangagwa book criticism
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's former advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa has launched a scathing attack on UK-based academic and biographer Blessing Miles Tendi over his criticism of the recently publishe...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
151 children, 16 wives, still counting
Mbire man, Misheck Nyandoro, has fathered 151 children with 16 wives and he is still counting. "Mine is a project. This polygamy is a project that I have undertaken since 1983 and will end wit...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cult family shuns hospitals
DEATH in a family is heart-numbing and if there is anything that can be done to prevent it the majority will choose to do that. However, this is not the case for an Apostolic sect family in Gwambe in ...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Heroine Nyaradzai Gumbodzvanda: Her speech at Amnesty International on Gender-based violence was heroic!
"Our language use perpetuate violence: we must refrain from language use that does not provide power to communities" said Madam Gumbodzvanda.Amai Gumbodzvanda made one of the most powerful spe...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 22:12hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Ubuntu/Hunhu is misplaced in African societies: Give me signs of...?
I should be excused once more for critiquing African values or should I say the African philosophy of humanism – Ubuntu/Hunhu. There are no traces of this noble philosophy in our culture: instead, w...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 13:32hrs | 11 | by Nomazulu Thata
If I had married that man, I would be dead by now!
The level of violence in Zimbabwe is alarming: domestic violence accompanies the life of a married woman daily. Daily we read depressing news about the growing number of cases of femicide. Today again...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 17:58hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa's wife engages men
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has started engaging men's representative organisations to hear their issues and help overcome ills such as physical and verbal abuse, domestic violence, abuse of c...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
40 rowdy youths arrested after drinking spree in CBD
POLICE have arrested 40 rowdy youths who went on the rampage in Bulawayo's CBD following a drinking binge over the weekend.Scores of under-age children flocked to various drinking spots in the...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A land of squandered potential
I well remember sitting in the AFP bureau in Harare at dusk on November 21, 2017 and hearing the first whoop of delight in the street outside when Robert Mugabe was finally ousted, an extraordinary mo...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:56hrs | 4 | by Ben Shepherd
WATCH: Two arrested over viral cheating girl assault video
POLICE have arrested two men who shot a video while brutally assaulting a girl (15) for allegedly having love affairs with both of them at Phumuza village in Plumtree. The video which has gone...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Sex-workers should be able to retire at 40'
A SEX worker has advocated for a retirement age from sex work and peer enforcement of minimum age restrictions to reduce the exploitation of under-age girls by older women and unruly clients.A...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas warned
Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Larry Mavima has warned self-styled traditional healers, popularly known as tsikamutandas who have reportedly taken Silobela by storm, fleecing villagers of their ...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Form 3 pupil arrested after garden sex
GARDEN sex has landed a Form Three boy in trouble as he was been arrested for allegedly sleeping with his 14-year-old Form Two girlfriend. The accused appeared in court being charged with enga...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Truck drivers prey on young women
THE Zimbabwe National Council for the Welfare of Children (ZNCWC) has called on government to address the sexual exploitation of children by truck drivers and artisanal miners who lure them with cash....Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Liberate and free the last colony of Africa
Dear Mr. S. Sibanda, "Very true that woman are marginalized" by S. Sibanda That was your article on the 8th of August 2018 on Bulawayo24: I wish to express my sincere gratitude for the...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 17:45hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Macheso deserves an honorary doctorate
Fans of Alick Macheso are lobbying the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) to confer an honorary doctorate on the sungura kingpin for his contribution towards development of the music industry in the country....Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 15:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
#ME-TOO movement in Zimbabwe will be supported by Zimbabwe men!
Fourth letter to the women of ZimbabweI wish you a happy women's day to you all my fellow Zimbabweans wherever you may be: kumativi mana enyika. There are several areas we need to celebrate ou...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 19:33hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa never temper with capital punishment, we need it only for paed0philes!
Third letter to Women of Zimbabwe: International Day of Women 2018Paed0philes who abuse babies, toddlers, little girls and boys should never be spared from hanging. We ask the government to up...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 18:53hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Its death, power and money
First letter to the women of Zimbabwe: International Women's Day 2018I read two articles about women yesterday and today from different Zimbabwe social ...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 18:22hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Castrate the, says Judge
A HIGH Court judge yesterday renewed calls for the enactment of a law that approves castration as punishment for paedophiles.Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Francis Bere made the remarks as ...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is the honourable leader that Zimbabwe needs
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the new President of Zimbabwe, is not an ogre with evil intent as his detractors make him out to be. He is a courteous, amiable, honest to goodness person, who is now on a ...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 11:13hrs | | by Jacky Seroke
Chiwenga and the Nyikadzino Prophecy
The day before Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga's grandfather died, he called the future general to his bedside and said: "What I wanted to achieve I could not achieve, but you are going...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Madzibaba marries off his under-age daughter
A 39-YEAR-OLD Chinamhora apostolic sect member yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court facing charges of contravening section 94 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act after ple...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Katswe Sistahood calls for arrest of paed0philes, as 54 girls rescued from child sexual exploitation
FIFTY-FOUR girls have been rescued from sexual exploitation for survival and placed into statutory care following a prominent exposé of underage commercial sex work in Epworth, Hopley and Caledonia b...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 00:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Under-age sex scandal in new twist
FIFTY-FOUR girls have been rescued from sexual exploitation and placed into statutory care following a prominent exposé of underage commercial sex work in Epworth, Hopley and Caledonia by Katswe Sist...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 13:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF bigwigs employ under-age workers'
ZANU-PF bigwigs, among them Cabinet ministers, who grabbed vast tracts of sugarcane plantations from Tongaat Hulett in the Lowveld were reportedly employing under-age workers, as cheap labour, Vice-Pr...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills sister-in-law
A man, who lost a bid to marry his wife's under-age sister following strong family resistance and demanded all the money he spent on the schoolgirl before fatally stabbing her, has been sentenced to 1...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Marathon sex man appeals against sentence
A 22-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man who was jailed for a year after his under-age girlfriend (15) told her relatives that she had 10 rounds of sex with him, is appealing against the sentence.Lihle Moyo...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Marathon sex lands man in jail
A NIGHT of pleasure has landed a 22-year-old Bulawayo man in jail after his under-age girlfriend (15) told her relatives that she had 10 rounds of sex with him.The revelation drew audible chuc...Published: 20 May 2017 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Soldier jailed for bedding 13 year old girl
A 29-YEAR-OLD soldier who was stationed at 4.1 Infantry Brigade in Masvingo will spend the next two years in prison after he was found guilty of having sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl....Published: 14 May 2017 at 14:56hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Rapist' herdboy silences victim
A Mberengwa man from Munyamani village employed as a herdboy would have sex with his employer's under-aged daughter and pay her $1.The issue came to light when the two were spotted by the comp...Published: 05 May 2017 at 11:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Women allegedly raped by UN peacekeepers in Haiti speak out
In Haiti By Force: UN Sex Abuse, Fault Lines speaks to Haitian women who say they were raped by UN peacekeepers there. Some of them were under-age at the time; some of them are now single mothers as a...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 10:00hrs | 16 | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
19-yr-old fakes being minor in rape case
A MAN from Matobo was acquitted of raping his "under-age" girlfriend who was said to be 12 years old when it was proved in court that she is 19.The woman further destroyed the State's case...Published: 04 Mar 2017 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man impregnates girl (15)
A 19-year-old man appeared before a Mbare magistrate accused of engaging in sex with a 15-year-old girl.The man claimed the minor was his girlfriend.He was charged for being intima...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko makes a fool of himself on national television
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday embarrassed himself on national television when he alleged, with a straight face, that popular political leader Morgan Tsvangirai was once involved in an as...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 08:20hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka, MDC-T Presidential Spokesperson
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 2016
Even in death the women are violated in Zimbabwe. I have in mind not so long ago, a body of a woman sex worker who was murdered, her body was found alongside the road, was photographed and was ditched...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 11:22hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe govt 'refuses' to treat STIs in underaged girls
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care has been accused of refusing to treat Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) in children below the age of 18 saying they are underaged and should bring a paren...Published: 04 Sep 2016 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Students caught pants down arrested
Police in Kenya have arrested five high school students, who were allegedly found engaging in sex in Eldoret.The Standard reported that the four boys and a girl from different schools in Nandi...Published: 17 May 2016 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Police dawn raids net 6 family members as kingpin tries to flee
POLICE have arrested six family members believed to be part of a syndicate that has been selling drugs to school children in Bulawayo.Sources close to investigations yesterday said the drug pe...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:45hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara/Nqobile Tshili
Arrest for U-18s lobola receivers
Government is coming up with a cocktail of laws, among them making it an offence for parents and guardians who accept lobola for children below the age of 18 as it steps up efforts to clamp down on un...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Parly committee on gender speaks on Marriage Act
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development says discussions on the inevitable amendment of the Marriage Act should focus on how under-age girls who have b...Published: 11 Feb 2016 at 20:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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