By Loveness Nyathi

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

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 Marvellous Matsvimbo

The shortage of various goods, services and cash has seen many Zimbabweans failing to maintain social distancing as they spend long hours in queues where they risk contracting corona virus.

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 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 Marvellouse Matsvimbo

Women informal market traders have defied the call to stay at home to avoid spreading and or contracting the deadly Corona Virus. Many of them say this is the only way they can feed their children.

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

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 Joleen Marara

Women in Bulawayo have expressed mixed feelings over the call for citizens to stay home over the Corona virus.

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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 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 Fiona Mpofu

In this first episode of Women Making A Difference, host Fiona Mpofu speaks to development enthusiast Gift Mteletwa about the work she does with Phelandaba Skills Craft Centre to empower women in the community.

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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 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 Joleen Marara

Women have called the Government of Zimbabwe to use the public's taxes to also benefit them and their development and empowerment needs.

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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 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.

By Marvellous Matsvimbo

Women in Plumtree have been encouraged to get to know their constitution better in a bid to understand their rights as well understand any changes proposed on it.

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By Takudzwa Mahove

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

With Busi Bhebhe

In the first episode of One on One with Amakhosikazi, Busi Bhebhe talks with Jennifer Lizzie Ngulube, a recipient of the Queen of England's honour for her work with children in the UK.

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