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Gender Forum With Ruth Butaumocho Walking in the central business district in Harare last week, I came across a group of vendors, mostly women, in running battles with the municipal police for selling their wares on “illegal vending sites”.
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Gender Forum With Ruth Butaumocho Last week most parents were restive after the august House deliberated on a contentious issue, whether condoms should be made available to pupils and be placed in schools.
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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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Gender Forum With Ruth Butaumocho Last week, a local tabloid ran with a front page picture of two women involved in nasty fight over a man somewhere in the informal settlement of Hopley, in Harare.
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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 […]
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Ruth Butaumocha Gender Forum The onset of the rainy season signalled the start of land preparations in both rural and urban areas as farmers mobilised the cropping season’s inputs.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum The year comes to an end tomorrow and will probably go down in the history as one of the most eventful years in recent times. The gender discourse dominated news for both bad and good reasons, with the election of Zimbabwe to the SADC gender chair, coming up tops on the […]
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum THE year was characterised by a series of events and issues that are expected to guide the gender discourse next year. As the year comes to an end, the events, which happened at various levels and informed by different economic, political and social fundamentals presented the nation with an opportunity to discuss gender […]
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum Being a woman, the First Lady, knows the pangs of a hungry child, the despair of a poor, hopeless woman and challenges of putting food on the table, against a background of meagre or no resources.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum When serial rapist Thomas Brighton Chirembwe was in January this year sentenced to 290 years in jail by magistrate Simon Rojers Kachambwa for raping 13 women and unlawful entry into their homes, the nation was left spellbound.
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Gender Forum With Ruth Butaumocho Today marks the beginning of 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence commemorations with the Government and civil society calling for the adoption of a zero tolerance approach to violence in the homes and at community level. This year’s commemorations come at a time when Zimbabwe is
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Editor Tendai Muranda of Mazivandadzoka Village in Shurugwi collects a container from the kitchen preparing to go and fetch water at the village borehole, a kilometre away. Having walked a few metres, she realises she has left her mobile phone and immediately rushes back to collect it. As soon as Tendai picks up
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum Zimbabwe is set to make a positive mark on gender issues in Southern Africa following its assumption of the gender regional agenda chair next year. The gender regional agenda will be chaired by Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development Minister Cde Oppah Muchinguri, a development that is going to further reinforce Zimbabwe’s […]
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum A FORTNIGHT ago, Zimbabweans woke up to the shocking news of a case of infanticide by a Chinhoyi University of Technology student. The student, who was spared jail and given a wholly-suspended sentence on condition that she doesn’t commit a similar offence, is said to
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