COVID-19 destroys lives of girls from poor families By Nigel Hove Suku Ncube (17) wakes up early morning and walks 2 kilometres to the nearest borehole to fetch water for her in-laws. …

By Providence Moyo As the 16 days of activism against Gender- Based Violence (GBV) continue, a sector of Bulawayo’s community that include disabled women in Bulawayo express their concerns over shortages of supportive infrastructure in the country citing that it makes some of them endure GBV silently. Disabled women who…

COVID 19 triggers more cases of GBV By Faith Badza Miriam Sibanda, a 25 year old mother of two who lives with her husband and in-laws is one of the women to experience Gender based violence at home during Covid 19. When the COVID 19 pandemic struck the globe everyone…

Mduduzi Ncube Like many other Zimbabwean women, Maggie’s story started out as a fairy tale. Swept off her feet by her six years older Prince Charming, she thought she would live happily ever after. She could have not guessed that her husband will one day turn into a monster. “When…

By Faith Badza Miriam Sibanda, a 25 year old mother of two who lives with her husband and in-laws is one of the women to experience Gender based violence at home during Covid 19. When the COVID 19 pandemic struck the globe everyone was forced to stay at home with…

By Bekezela Mguni Verita Ncube was born out of marriage and her mother passed away when she was young and has since been left with her step siblings who have always made her feel like an outsider. After her mother passed on she had to start working as a maid…

By Duduzile Ruzive As a young woman, I am deeply concerned about the increase in rape cases as there seems to be very little done to curb this heinous crime. Children and women are raped on daily basis and because of how perpetrators are intimidating, it makes it difficult for…

By Duduzile Ruzive Sandra Dlodlo (28), a sex worker plying her trade between Conaught street and second street in Bulawayo metropolitan province in Zimbabwe says there is an upsurge in cases of men who approach sex workers with absurd proposals such as demanding sexual fluids after the sexual encounter, a…

By Duduzile Ruzive Ntobeko Sibiya (21), a young mother of one, who lives in Bulawayo metropolitan province says in December 2019, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, a condition that she believed would end her life prematurely, considering the inadequate treatment and care from public hospitals. Ntobeko says the cervical…