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Tobacco regulations should promote a smoke-free future
Simbarashe Mutsine started smoking uncured tobacco at the age of 16.
By Everson Mushava
Now aged 43, Mutsine is bed ridden and battling for his life.
He has been in and out of hospital suffering from a cocktail of health…
Maka Chikowero: Scoring On and Off The Pitch
16-year-old Makanaka Chikowero continues to make waves in the United States after she recently won the Chicago Red Stars #SHEINSPIRESME Award, an annual award that is presented to women who exemplify leadership, practice social…
Shamva’s Gold Rush: A Recipe For Child Sexual Exploitation
As the sun sets marking the end of another day, the mining town of Shamva suddenly comes to life. People from all walks of life including illegal gold miners, some already intoxicated fill-up the numerous nightspots in the town enjoying…
Child Headed Families In Low Income Communities: The Unsung Heroes
By Michelle Chifamba
Young girls carry loads of firewood on their heads, their faces whitewashed with dust from across the compound showing visible signs of weary.
Seventeen year old Tariro Madiro sits by the small door of the 2…
Child Headed Families In Low Income Communities:The Unsung Heroes
Young girls carrying loads of firewood on their heads, their faces whitewashed with dust from across the compound showing visible signs of weary.
By Michelle Chifamba
Seventeen-year-old Tariro Madiro sits by the small door of the…
Water Woes Mount For Displaced Chiadzwa Women
MUTARE- Women who were Internally displaced to pave way for diamond mining Transau farm are now facing a water crisis, compounded by livelihood challenges.
Myness Matanda, a mother who lives at the farm narrated her daily excursions to…
Traditional Chiefs Formulate By-laws To End Child Marriages
Despite the existence of numerous international and regional human rights laws and conventions against child marriage, it still remains a widely ignored violation of the health and development rights of girls and young women.
The scourge…
Chitungwiza Council In Illegal Settlements Dilemma
It has been days now since the demolitions took place and heaps of broken glass and bricks lie scattered all over the vast space just behind St Mary’s Chitungwa Police Station.
According to Cecilia Muchemwa, a housewife who witnessed the…
Caring For The Elderly Against The Grain
MUTARE- In patriarchal societies, voluntary palliative care even for young people, is a social service largely performed by women, while men are off trudging with more exerting physical occupations.
Typically, during the Cyclone Idai…
Delivering As One In The Face Of COVID-19
Amid the COVID 19 pandemic World Food Programme food distribution points have provided a one-stop-shop for millions of Zimbabwe. It has become a platform for knowledge exchange as well as a go-to place for family planning commodities.
By…