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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent I am a mother of three daughters. My maternal grandmother was also a girls’ mother with three girls just like me. Ma Ncube my mother was the middle child. I am happy to be a mother of girls. I have nothing against boys. I have a nephew that I love very much. […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent The article from last week triggered discussion. There are many pregnancy buddies and “investigators”. The investigators are self-motivated. The investigators are out there to investigate who is pregnant, who is not and why! Remember that privacy is power, what people do not know they cannot hurt. Other people opt to keep their […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent The past weeks have been emotional for many people. Examination results were released. Some were just content to receive the results. Others were surprised by the results; they had not expected the outcome they got. The surprise could be that the results showed an improvement from what they had anticipated. Or it […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent When I was in Grade five my family stayed in Harare. We came to stay in Harare at the end of second term when I was in grade four. Prior to that, my siblings and I used to visit relatives in Harare and go back home. I stayed in many places as […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent Parents, guardians and the so called Deputy Parents ( the eldest child) were very busy early this week. Schools opened this week. It was not just a new term but also a new year. Being responsible for another human being is not easy. There are some children who did not change schools. […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent Who like me can still hear the sound of loud music? What about the peals of laughter? Is that the sweet aroma of roast beef? I bet that is evidence of someone ensuring that their family and loved ones have baked treats? It is still the festive season. Some people are already […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent There are generally three groups of contraceptives. There are short acting contraceptives. In this group are the male and female condoms, the contraceptive pill and the injectactables. In the long acting reversible contraceptives group are the implants and the intrauterine contraceptive devices. There are some women who believe that once they have […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Herald Correspondent There is a Shona proverb that: Kutsva kwendebvu varume vanodzimurana. Loosely translated it means that when a man’s beard catches fire, other men will come to his rescue and put out the fire. If you think about it literally, all kinds of pictures come to mind. Imagine a man’s beard on […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent On Thursday I met a group of girls who were singing on top of their voices how they would miss each other. At first it did not make sense to me. As I have said before, I do not just get to understand something at once these days. It is the age, […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent There is a craze that has hit the country. It is not for me to say that these people are crazy, I just used craze for lack of a better word. I do not want to offend anyone. I come in peace. Maybe trend or wave are better words? Anyway what I […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent There are so many edible insects in this country. In Masvingo, particularly in Bikita District, there is a popular insect called harurwa. Many people in Bikita consider harurwa as a special delicacy. I have never eaten this Bikita delicacy, but I have friends and relatives who have told me that it is […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent When we were small and our chests were bare, we longed for a fully developed bosom that would show how grown up we had become. We looked at the breasts and prayed that they would grow at the appropriate time. When one is young time seems never to move for body parts […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent It was Government pensioners’ pay day this week. There was a time I would avoid going into town on such a day a few years ago just after my father WaMambo had died. There always was that one pensioner who would remind me of WaMambo. It was either the dressing, the height, […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent I AM doing my best to live a healthy life. I am not perfect but I try. Once in a while I will curl on a couch and literally vandalise a packet of crisps or biscuits. I will read the ingredients contents and then say, “It is just this moment Fadzi, it […]
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Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent There are so many people who are guilty of abusing others. Some do it knowingly. Others do it basically out of ignorance. There is a lot of abuse, including emotional abuse whose scars cannot be seen though there are there. When we were growing up I used to hear stories of mothers […]