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'Bulawayo life expectancy at 63 years'
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) has revealed that the life expectancy for Bulawayo province stood at 62,6 years compared to the national life expectancy of 64,7 years.ZimStat...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 17:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe divorce, yet another Damascene moment for the republic
The world is not for honest people. I am convinced. Those who toil, break a sweat in various endeavours to make an honest living a...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Baby refused birth registration in South Africa because dad is a Zimbabwean
With the intervention of the court, a child born nearly four years ago will, for the first time, officially have a name and legal standing in South Africa after bureaucratic red tape has denied him of...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:38hrs | 23 | by Zelda Venter for Pretoria News
Mnangagwa was never appointed by God!
As the Christian world moves out of the so-called 'Easter holidays' - to be expected, there were multitudes who gathered in various places to commemorate the death and resurrection of our Lord and...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe govt sued over sex toys ban
GOVERNMENT has been taken to court over the ban on the importation on sex toys.In a High Court application filed on Thursday, Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) ex...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Married men drive illegal abortion stats
SOME married men are reportedly forcing their girlfriends to terminate pregnancies to avoid fathering children outside marriages and looking after illegitimate children.Illegal unsafe abortion...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 Zimbabwe police recruits face discharge for falling pregnant during training
Five police recruits are set to be summarily dismissed from the Zimbabwe Republic Police after they were found to be pregnant during their training at Morris Depot in Harare.A senior officer h...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
When a govt needs media to help highlight its achievements then it has nothing to show!
When I was still a young lad, there was a television advertisement that I used to enjoy a lot.If my memory serves me right, it was by the now comatose state-run Cold Storage Commission (CSC) -...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 13:37hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
It's the economy, stupid!
Eons ago, in Bishop Lazi's village, there lived a pint-sized legend who was known far and wide.Everyone always surmised — and with good reason too — he had inherited the worst biological q...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazarus
Marriage is not an achievement
These are the headlines that get you roasted in Pentecostal and religious circles. How on earth, would you say that, "marriage is not achievement?" Some are actually fasting for it, and binding "marin...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:10hrs | 2 | by Arthur Marara-Point Blank
Peeping tom arrested
AN intoxicated man from Magwegwe North suburb has been arrested for voyeurism after he was caught watching his aunt indulging in sex with her lover. A family member, who requested not to be na...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:21hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
ZRP probe Chinese marriage to minor
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched an investigation into a case where a 15-year-old girl from Kadoma was married off to a Chinese national and forced to drop out of school.The vic...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says no to contraceptives for girls
Girls under the age of 16 cannot be given contraceptives as they cannot legally consent to sexual activity, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga told that National Assembly last week. Speaking ...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
A letter to Ms. Sehlule Ndlovu: Hillside Bulawayo
Dear Ms. Sehlule Ndlovu, I start my letter with the first sentence of the article written today regarding the fight you had with supposedly your husband Trust Moyo. If marriage is war, the bed...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 19:06hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Every Zimbabwean deserves secure land rights
IN 2019, Zimbabwe embarked on a long-awaited land policymaking process.The Land Policy's emphasis on gender sensitivity echoes global recognition and acknowledgement of the strategic importanc...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:05hrs | 9 | by Gaynor G Paradza
Dr. Masimba Mavaza, please do not excite!
I have hardly recovered from the last article you wrote on Bulawayo24: an article that sees female gender as unreasonable and out of sic with African traditions and culture. Here we go again today: "M...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 20:57hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwean ex-domestic worker set to inherit mansion in Capetown SA
CAPE TOWN Jane Bwanya, a former domestic worker who was "swept off her feet" six years ago by a relatively wealthy businessman, has succeeded in changing the provisions of South Africa's Intestate Suc...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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
Of Cabinet folly, contradictions and civil unions
ON Tuesday Cabinet purportedly "withdrew" clause 40 of the Marriages Bill. The clause contained the much-maligned civil partnerships clause that has caused great consternation in the country.I...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:49hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
What characteristics in men do women most enjoy in a relationship?
Although concepts like toxic masculinity have come to the fore in recent years, most men now accept that the days of women's tradit...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 12:12hrs | 8 | by Staff Writer
God made no concubine for Adam
A story published by some local news media recently and now so hot on the lips of gossips that no fly dares alight on them, has triggered consternation in the realm of holy matrimony with some worried...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Cohabiting now legally protected
SECTION 40 of the proposed Marriage Bill recognises and protects the rights of unmarried people in cohabiting relationships, known in Shona as kubika mapoto and colloquially as small houses.Fo...Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Social media - loitering hall for sociopaths
Even though Jesus was/is God, and even though he was immaculately conceived, during the time he walked this earth - more than 2 019 years ago - he was a man of flesh and blood.A man - despite ...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:33hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Mbare flats residents feel short-changed
MBARE residents from Matapi flats feel short-changed by Harare City Council's purported refurbishments as the city fathers only painted the outside while leaving the inside unattended to.The r...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 16:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Demand for Indian sex sweets rises
There is a new craze for Indian aphrodisiacs and other related herbs commonly known as Indian sweets in the town, with one enterprising merchant of the products saying she is making a killing out of t...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 08:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Dire warning over Zimbabwe debt
GREAT-grandchildren of Zimbabwe will inherit billions of dollars in debt consumed today by the current generation, which is being led by visionless and greedy leaders, renowned African scholar Patrick...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Staying after being cheated on
STRANGERS love telling me their problems. I have often wondered why most people I bump into immediately open up and tell me shocking personal secrets. A lady I had never met before told me this tragic...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
The multi-pronged dilemma of abortion
A CROWD gathers around the dumpster and many are busy taking videos of the lifeless body of a new born baby.The horrible sight is made worse by the garbage and filth that surrounds the tiny pi...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Woman uses juju to seduce men
AN UNIDENTIFIED woman stunned congregants at an apostolic sect shrine in Kuwadzana on Sunday when she confessed to using juju to sleep with men of her choice.The woman said she uses juju over ...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 16:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rapist 'Satanist' 's reign of terror
ALMOST a month after serial rapist and murderer Charles Matanga Magombedze was jailed for 72 years following a brief trial, villagers in Masvingo still live in fear as some do not believe his reign of...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 15:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dictator Ian Khama steps down, hands over to Masisi
Khama has visited all of Botswana's 57 constituencies since December, bidding a long goodbye to a population of just 2.2 million after serving the constitutional maximum of 10 years in office....Published: 31 Mar 2018 at 10:55hrs | | by AFP
Fundamental difference between a German domestic worker and a Zimbabwean domestic worker
It is not so much the labour rights: it is the minimum wages and human rights that the German Domestic servants enjoy in this great country to unlimited proportions. When I was a student in 1985 at th...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
#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
Zimbabwean families in UK facing lobola nightmare
Throughout Africa a marriage could not take place without some form of gift (or "payment") of animals, food or other material goods to the parents and family of the bride. Today people speak of this a...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 09:37hrs | 10 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Trials and tribulations of Zimbabwean nationals in South Africa
South Africa is a country where everyone outside the country believed that their economic and employment challenges would be solved. South Africa is one of the African country with the most powerful e...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe has lost its culture and its too bad
Cultural decay is when a culture no longer holds any value to the youth of the period and is slowly cast aside in favor of new trends. ... The effects would be anarchy and mayhem.It is when a ...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 10:14hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Another Ndebele king named
Another Whatsapp based Khumalo clan faction has named 32-year-old Bulelani Colin Lobengula Khumalo, an alleged South African Intelligence office, as heir apparent to the Ndebele crown, which has remai...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 06:35hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Statement from the Royal House of Khumalos, Amantungwa, on the restoration of the Ndebele/Mthwakazi monarch
INTRODUCTION 1. DULY mandated by the Ndebele/Mthwakazi people as dictated to by their traditions, historical precedents and cultural values, chiefs and ...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 06:09hrs | 14 | by Royal House of Khumalos, Amantungwa
Zimbabwean arrested in Malaysian model trafficking scandal
AUTHORITIES in Malaysia have arrested a Zimbabwean national linked to a pageant run by Taremeredzwa Munzara, on allegations of human trafficking after a joint sting operation by South Africa's Hawks a...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 07:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimpapers apologise to Kaukonde for fabricated sex articles
In our issue of November 2, 2015, and also in the issue of our sister newspaper The Sunday News of the same day, we published articles titled "Ray Kaukonde in sex-for-power storm" and "Kaukonde in sex...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 12:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo model eyes global crown
TWENTY-year-old rising model, Elissa James Nyoni said she is ready to take the challenge as she represents Zimbabwe at this year's edition of Miss United Countries set for July 29 at Marriot Hotel Put...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor in love with married woman, sends pictures of his manhood
A HARARE-BASED pastor is entangled in a love triangle involving a married woman whose husband is in South Africa and has been allegedly sending pictures of his manhood through WhatsApp as well as aski...Published: 14 May 2017 at 14:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Desperation in Marriage-institutions: Zimbabwe is wholly conservative!
Some iconic Journalist Haru Mutasa questioned the desperation of Zimbabwean women in their quest for marriage on twitter: to say it verbatim: Minister Jonathan Moyo replied the good journalist: ...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 09:08hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Cohabiting affairs on the rise
It is women's month and most women are in celebratory mood.Some are single, some are in relationships, some are engaged, some are married and others are cohabiting with their partners....Published: 04 Mar 2017 at 07:01hrs | | by Vongai Mbara
Fighting for the women equity rights and freedoms: the patriarchal women are to blame! Making the cause long and painful!
Dear Nimi Princewill, The problem here is not the men-folk who are oppressing us women so successfully but it's the women who are letting other women down dear Nimi! We need to fight those wom...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 18:47hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Stigma attached to abortion in Zimbabwe
ABORTION is quite a touchy topic for a lot of people. Our country is so conservative and it is considered taboo to talk about abortion. There is virtually nothing to discuss when it comes to abo...Published: 03 Sep 2016 at 09:24hrs | | by Tsungai Chekerwa-Machokoto
Woman drags mum to court for trying to initiate her into prostitution
A young woman hauled her biological mother to court accusing her of trying to initiate her into prostitution.Annie Makomo alleged that her mother was also abusive in different ways."My...Published: 21 May 2016 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Wicknell is too busy to marry
He drives the latest vehicles and runs successful businesses, but philanthropist and flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo says he is too busy to settle down and start a family of his own.Ch...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 19:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hoax story of Eritrean government forcing men to marry at least 2 wives goes viral
A hoax story originally posted by a Somali website reported that unnamed "activists" posted a memo on a social media site allegedly from the Eritrean government asking men to marry at least two wives ...Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 20:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman publicly caned for having affectionate contact with a man
Hundreds of people gathered to cheer as a woman was publicly caned in Indonesia for having affectionate contact with a man who was not her husband. According to ...Published: 30 Dec 2015 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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