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Ruth Buataumocho Gender Forum Some weeks ago, while coming from Murambinda, I came across a group of women and men who were awaiting transport to get to Harare. Although it was mid-afternoon, the road was very clear, with no sign of any vehicle coming in that direction.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum A few days ago, I was moving around town just after 6pm when a young boy barely in his teens, approached me stealthily from behind just as I was about to cross the robot. Having heard so many stories about how people, mainly women, are manhandled by street kids in the […]
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Ruth Butaumocho Forty-two-year old Mrs Anna Makoni joins the long winding queue of women and children waiting to collect water for household use in a small riverbed well. Although it is still 4am, the water queue is already stretching for more than two kilometres and more people are coming to the watering hole, hoping for […]
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Whether women would want to call it “dirty scheming, plotting, or other demeaning names, what is undoubtedly clear is that men will not blink twice, when executing their game plan because they were taught to compete and win.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Editor Outgoing Zimbabwe Women Football League chairperson Mavis Gumbo was so confident of retaining the post that she is still to come to grips on why her constituency dumped her in favour of Miriam Sibanda.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum Last week, the Government with the assistance of DANIDA and SNV of Netherlands, launched a US$6 million agricultural project expected to benefit 280 000 commercially-oriented small holder farmers across Zimbabwe.
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Last week, millions of people across the globe joined hands to commemorate International Women’s Day – a day set aside to celebrate the social, political and economic achievements of women.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum The gender discourse has been around for a long time. I can safely attest that it is one discussion that has evolved over generations from the 1960s when the feminist euphoria gripped Europe.
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Ruth Butaomoche Gender Forum In recent years, most countries have been using sport and physical activity as a strategy for empowering women and girls in impoverished communities. The strategy has been gaining recognition across the world, where countries like Angola, Benin and parts of
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum In the past weeks, Zimbabwe’s media has been awash with stories on corruption and obscene salaries in parastatals. Equally topical in the Press have been the increasing cases of sexual violence that have kept the courts busy. Over the same period, a landmark ruling was given
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Zimbabwe is in the middle of a promising farming season that has seen the country receiving lots of rainfall compared to previous seasons. As I write this column, many farmers have finished weeding and applying top dressing fertilisers though the heavy rains that continue to
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum A few days ago, I switched on to one of Zimbabwe’s radio stations and came across an interesting debate on relationships and the use of social media.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum Extramarital affairs are as old as humankind, and remain as intriguing as ever for those observing them, especially when brought under media scrutiny.It therefore did not come as a surprise when the media a few weeks ago, broke the story of a Bindura woman, Gladys Farirai Mangwiro (may her soul rest in peace) […]
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum A week has passed since schools opened for a new term. Most parents found themselves battling on the hard end of their budgets to cater for their children’s school fees, uniforms and other
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Ruth Butaumocho January is a busy month where both individuals and organisations take time to reflect on issues and events that took place the previous year.
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