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The 15th of October marks the annual celebration of international rural women’s day. This year’s commemoration is running under the theme ‘Building rural women’s resilience in the wake of COVID 19’. This is a call to create awareness of rural women’s struggles, their needs, and their critical and key role in ensuring the sustainability of […]
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Editor Zimbabwe will for the next 14 days join the rest of the world in commemorating 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence as the globe makes concerted efforts to end the problem. From November 25 – the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – to December 10 – Human […]
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Editor Tariro Murinda (24) woke up to find a man slipping into her blankets in the bedroom she shared with her seven-year old sister. Before she could even scream for help, Tariro realised that the man was not a stranger but his father. He started fondling her breasts whilst signalling her to keep quiet. Tariro […]
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Editor When Mr Charles Mukaronda was growing up, he was alarmed at the levels of poverty around him although raised in a family of academics, Mr Mukaronda neither lacked life’s basics nor was he short of mentors.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Editor Government’s proposed 60-year imprisonment for those found guilty of raping minors and the disabled is a welcome move that should address the growing problem of sexual assault in Zimbabwe.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Profile When a 14-year-old Nothabo Ncube lost her mother she was devastated. However, in the midst of all the pain and loss – a promise was born.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Editor Dambudzo Marechera was a renowned writer, who carved his own piece of history, both on the local and international literature radar as one of the best young African writers to emerge.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender profile Zimbabwean born Elizabeth Rudo Limamu (nee Takundwa) navigates the challenges of doing business in South Africa like any other entrepreneur.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Editor With only a few months left before the onset of the 2018 parliamentary and Presidential elections gets underway, preparations for the plebiscite have begun in earnest.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Profile When Elizabeth Vimbai Mhangami finished her studies in the United States, she decided to retrace her footsteps to Zimbabwe and establish how best she could contribute to the economy.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Profile One of the most surprising and perhaps confounding facts of charity across the globe is that the people who least afford to give are the ones who donate the greatest percentage of their income.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Profile Meeting Jacob Esau for the first time, his humility and unassuming character immediately stand out.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Editor Mrs Maud Chauke watched hopelessly as her mother, VaChireka, writhed in pain while lying under a mopane tree a few metres from the family kitchen. She noticed her condition had worsened from the time she visited the nearest clinic for medication.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum A male associate recently asked me to register his child for Zero Grade at one of the private schools in town. Just before I got into the schoolhead’s office, I decided to phone and ask him other personal details including his son’s date of birth.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum In November last year, hundreds of women in Kenya held a series of demonstrations in protest after a group of men tore off a woman’s clothing for wearing a miniskirt. The demonstrations received wide coverage around the region and the globe with feminists and activists organising similar demos in solidarity with […]