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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent It has been cold. The cold weather has exposed people for who they are. There are so many people who do not want to even get a bit of the cold wind near their bodies. Now that we are in August which is called Nyamavhuvhu in Shona because of nature of the […]

Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent We have different friends and we love them for who they are. We may at some point have attempted to change them and then realised that they are a `cast in stone` and our attempts to change them yielded nothing except frustration and possibly dent or damage our relationships. Look at your […]

Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent Shurugwi is my birth town. The area of my roots, my umblical cord lies in the farming area of Rockford. There is no way my life story will be shared without the mention of Shurugwi. The twists and turns of Boterekwa on their own are a lesson for me and many others. […]

Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent Shurugwi my birth town. The area of my roots, my umbilical cord lies in the farming area of Rockford. There is no way my life story will be shared without the mention of Shurugwi. The twists and turns of Boterekwa on their own are a lesson for me and many others. It […]

Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent Talking about the “it experience”, menstruation is not easy. The fact that there has to be a “code” so that others are left in the dark means that it can only be put in three words, it is complicated! I suppose some of the things that we think are complicated are not […]

Fadzayi Maposah Correspondent Leonard Dembo is a Zimbabwean music artiste who excelled in his work. He did well such that one of his songs Chitekete was played at an international pageant as it was played at the 1996 Miss World beauty pageant held in Namibia. Another history maker for Zimbabwe. The songs from yesteryear were […]