Government, Roman Catholic Church provides food relief for Buhera Villagers
Joyce Mukombi, Chabata High School In the midst of severe drought and food insecurity among households in Buhera South, the government of Zimbabwe in collaboration with Roman Catholic Church, provided food relief for villagers. The distribution took place at Chabata…
War Veterans Demand Improved Welfare
War Veterans Pressure Group PRESS STATEMENT 30/08/2021 We are here to clarify events that unfolded last week which resulted in the arresting and detention of 9 Gallant sons and daughters of the liberation struggle and to clear the perception that…
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…
Child Marriages In Makaha Pushing Girls To The Edge
The continuous occurrence of child marriages in Zimbabwe has left the girl child with no other choice but to succumb to living a life of pain and misery. Extreme poverty, lack of knowledge of both sexual reproductive health and educational…
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…
A plea to Cabinet on schools opening
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Cabinet recently made a decision to reopen schools. It’s not a bad idea, but it is ill-conceived and not well thought.
Zimbabweans smuggling covid-19 bodies from SA
Cross border transporters popularly known as oMalayitsha are reportedly smuggling corpses of Zimbabweans who are dying of coronavirus in the neighbouring South Africa into the country thereby risking more transmissions of the pandemic through goods such as groceries and clothes…
Present Danger urges govt to plan for Coronavirus
The “Present Danger Campaign” under the hashtag #CoronavirusZimbabwe questioned the preparedness of Zimbabwe government to deal with the COVID-19 urging for boarders to be closed, that the COVID 19 be declared a state of emergency and for government to increase…
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…
Council nurses plead incapacitation
Zimbabwe Urban and Rural Council Nurses Workers Union president Simbarashe James Tafirenyika said his members were not on industrial action but were incapacitated and cannot afford transport fares among other basics to be at work. Tafirenyika made the remarks at…