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By Anna Chibamu ATLEAST 900 young girls below the age of 18 are among 2 496 women who were raped during the last half of 2020, police statistics reveal. Some 900 young girls below the age of 18 were raped in the last quarter of 2020 alone. This was revealed Thursday by Women Affairs minister Sithembiso Nyoni during a presentation of a ministerial statement on the level of public service delivery related to sexual and gender based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic in Parliament. According to Nyo...

By Bulawayo Correspondent THE resignation of Vice President Kembo Mohadi has triggered frenzied talk in Matabeleland with political activists and parties expressing different views about who and how the former VP could best be replaced. Others choose to focus on the porous nature of private communication among individuals in the country as the ex-VP’s sex scandals emerged from alleged phone tapping by Mohadi’s enemies. Some want to concentrate on whether it was still necessary for a small c...

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Zimbabwe is no exception, especially at local government level. However, the Central Government continues to show political will through the enactment of various pieces of legislation chief among them the National Gender Policy (NGP) of 2013 to 2017 which was later revised and unveiled on 6 July 2017. The initial NGP recorded successes, namely the passing of a series of legislation to operationalise the policy, institutional and structural reforms that saw the national gender machinery being st...

Mango growers look to the sun to boost incomes - February 15, 2021 Before agronomist Peter Sena retired, he planted a variety of mango trees on his rural homestead in Midlands province, aiming to ensure an ongoing income for his family. This year, an unusually wet rainy season combined with coronavirus restrictions that closed down most of the markets in the country threatened to leave him with a bumper mango harvest — and nobody to sell it to. But a new dried frui...

6 Min Read GOKWE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Before agronomist Peter Sena retired, he planted a variety of mango trees on his rural homestead in Zimbabwe’s Midlands province, aiming to ensure an ongoing income for his family. This year, an unusually wet rainy season combined with coronavirus restrictions that closed down most of the markets in the country threatened to leave him with a bumper mango harvest - and nobody to sell it to. But a new dried fruit processing centre, which...

By Lungelo Ndhlovu | Thomson Reuters Foundation GOKWE, Zimbabwe, Feb 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Before agronomist Peter Sena retired, he planted a variety of mango trees on his rural homestead in Zimbabwe’s Midlands province, aiming to ensure an ongoing income for his family. This year, an unusually wet rainy season combined with coronavirus restrictions that closed down most of the markets in the country threatened to leave him with a bumper mango harvest – and nobody to sell it t...

When the world gives you rain, Zimbabwe growers make dried mangoes Wet weather and coronavirus restrictions left farmers with surplus stock, but drying their mangoes has opened up a whole new market 15 February 2021 - 12:08 Lungelo Ndhlovu Picture: 123RF/ALI SAFAROV Gokwe — Before agronomist Peter Sena retired, he planted a variety of mango trees on his rural homestead in Zimbabwe’s Midlands province, aiming to ensure an ongoing income for his family. This year, an un...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa chairs his inaugural cabinet meeting as Head of State and Government while flanked Ministers Sithembiso Nyoni, Obert Mpofu, Simon Khaya Moyo and Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda (far right) at Munhumutapa offices in Harare. – Picture: Believe Nyakudjara HARARE – Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affair, Ziyambi Ziyambi is currently battling for his life in the ICU of a Harare hospital amid a Covid-19 explosion that has p...

By Farai Shawn Matiashe WITH the economic fallout of Covid-19 contributing to skyrocketing rates of teenage pregnancy in Zimbabwe, a new law has been ushered in to protect the education of the young women affected. Cassey Simbanai was set to take her final year examinations this December. The 17-year-old Zimbabwean girl, one of the more promising students in her class, still has dreams of becoming a science teacher. But on a recent school day, Simbanai wasn’t in her classroom or playing her b...