Climate change and Covid-19: A double tragedy for rural women
The outbreak of Covid-19 further worsened the plight of women in rural areas, where the impact of climate change on the social and well-being of women was already taking its toll. Rural women who constitute 80 percent of the total…
Access to Public Health Monitoring Report by the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) – July 2021
The Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) recently produced the July 2021 monthly monitoring report on Access to Public Health across Zimbabwe. The report covers issues to do with government’s efforts in the fight against Covid-19 third wave. You can read the…
Marketplaces must be clean
Our government always come up with wrong solutions to solve problems despite the correct solutions staring them in the eye. The problem of Cholera, typhoid and other waterborne diseases cannot be wholly attributed to vendors selling their wares and fruits…
Harare South youths get lifeline
Harare South youths have turned to income generating projects following a series of successful life skills training conducted by Restless Development, Silveira House and Hopley Can Change Initiative (HCCI) in a bid to eradicate robbery, prostitution, early child marriages and…
Failed student abortion, grim picture of illegal terminations
The slow and painful death of Lorraine, a first year University of Zimbabwe student, who was four months pregnant when she tried to abort a pregnancy using a coat hanger; pains a grim picture on backyard terminations in a conservative…
Councillor leading in the making of Reusable Sanitary Pads.
Chipinge East Ward 18 were trained on making Reusable Sanitary Pads . Funded by UNDP and facilitated Care International. Young mothers and young fathers are busy using their hands making these pads. Through the interactions of Councillor Patience Mlambo with…
Burial societies back in vogue
Poor working class in Harare’s high-density suburbs and slums have resorted to forming burial societies to help them lessen the burden in times of bereavement as premiums for funeral assurances keep rising beyond the reach of many. Burial societies in…
Parents demand firing of Sunningdale 1 primary head
Parents of children attending Sunningdale 1 Primary School yesterday demonstrated demanding the the firing of the school headmaster, Never Zviripi, after he sent away their children from school to collect In an interview with ZimSentinel, parents called for the dismissal…
BREAKING: Famous Chiredzi journalist goes into hiding.
By Marko Shoko: CHIREDZI: Chiredzi journalist Patrick Chitongo has gone into hiding after 3 men who claimed that they are from CIO in Masvingo besieged his house at 1am on the 26th of September 2019. The team later came back…
Zimbabweans to hold Citizens’ Convention and Reiterate Calls for International Mediation
The Citizens’ Manifesto, a convergence platform of civic organizations, will convene the 2nd National Citizens’ Convention on 24 and 25 September 2019, in Harare. The Convention seeks to map, what civil society considers, a sustainable path out of Zimbabwe’s acute…