By  Precious Moyo

WOMEN in Bulawayo have expressed relief after Coca-Cola Foundation launched a US$50 000 water project aimed at drilling six boreholes in the city's high density suburbs.

By Dumisani Nyoni

Young women in Gwanda district are struggling to access contraceptives due to lockdown measures introduced to minimise the spread of Covid-19 pandemic, raising fears of more unplanned pregnancies that often lead to unsafe abortions.

By Shamiso Chigonde

 The coming of the COVID-19 pandemic and introduction of lockdown measures has increased women’s vulnerabilities, with a rise in problems ranging from the domestic, economic to the political. The pandemic has also led to an upsurge in sexual abuse and domestic violence cases, with perpetrators being close relations of victims in most cases.

By Loveness Nyathi

WOMEN have expressed differing views on the gender quota system on female \candidates as parties prepare for by-elections.

 

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By Loveness Nyathi

SOCIAL media marketing is emerging as one of the most sought-after skills in a world, where there is increased interaction online hence no business can afford to ignore these platforms.

By Loveness Nyathi

WOMEN have expressed differing views on the gender quota system on female \candidates as parties prepare for by-elections.

By Nokuthaba Dlamini

Scores of families in Binga's Nsungwale area that were displaced by floods early this year are trooping back to their old homes despite the risks of another disaster.

By Irene Kalulu

Changing climate patterns in Zimbabwe have left many households facing severe hunger, especially in rural communities where people are now heavily dependent on food aid from donor organisations.

By Loveness Nyathi

Lower flu infections saw pharmacies remaining with more flu medical stocks than usual as fewer people caught the viral disease this year.

By Thandeka Matebesi

In many African societies sex and sexuality are taboo topics that cannot be explicitly and freely talked about especially with parents or relatives. Any attempt at openly discussing sex and sexuality is castigated as a sing of immorality. Most young people have turned to alternative forms of knowledge such as friends, internet and television where they risk getting wrong information which puts them in harms’ way.

By Nyaradzo Bakari

For all the years they have dedicated their lives to saving people’s lives through their job, 2020 has turned out to be the most devastating of their experiences and the greatest worry is the mental health effects that come with dealing with the deadly COVID -19 pandemic. Health front liners’ experiences during this pandemic are a narration of sad and tough experiences they have to endure saving lives and putting their own on the line.

by Thandeka Matebesi

Miss Chelesani Ndlovu is a single mother of three residing with her mother in Ward 13 area in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North. Every October she starts her farming preparations despite the fact that for the past two consecutive seasons there has been erratic rainfall which comes mostly around December and January.

By Takudzwa Mahove

Female MPs are set to benefit from new rules that seek to censure abuse of other MPs during Parliament sessions

By Takudzwa Mahove

Thanks to new IT apps, women and girls are now empowered and can now manage their sexual reproductive health. They can now track when to expect their period to start and stop and , when they are most likely to fall pregnant if they are intimate.

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By Takudzwa Mahove

For Sophie Takuva, the Great Dyke is a gift that keeps on giving as she sings forward ever backward never. Sophie started off as a small scale supplier, became a gold buyer and is now a successful small scale miner.

by Loveness Nyathi

FEMALE footballers are struggling to focus on the game during the Covid-19 crisis as demanding household chores at home keep them away from individual training.

by Loveness Nyathi

REELING from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, women’s entrepreneurial grouping, Inotho Kubomama is struggling to get back on its feet after members used reserve funds during the lockdown.

by Takudzwa Mahove

It is an age-old topic of discussion, a global problem which needs to be addressed day in day out with never ending efforts of indoctrination for humankind to realise and accept that Gender Based Violence has no place anywhere in the world.

by Marvelous Matsvimbo

Lupane Womens Development Trust donated dishwashing liquid and 20 litre containers for boreholes in Lupane to help sanitise rural women because women and girls are at risk of contracting covid 19 as they are the ones who provide basic services like fetching water.