By Lorraine Mathe As a young woman, I have observed that there is increasing pressure on young women in Zimbabwe to get into marriage. …

By Lorraine Metha Communities in both rural and urban Zimbabwe are concerned about the behaviour of young people popularly called Ama2k. Ama2k are individuals born from the year 2000 and are associated with drugs and substances abuse, sexual escapades and violence. Charity Gumbo (13), a student at Montrose high school…

By Bradley Moyo The Human immunodeficiency virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is one of the major health challenges globally affecting the public health. It is mostly dominant in the global south. Despite Africa’s efforts to avail medications for controlling and reducing viral transmission, HIV/AIDS still poses a significant health…

By Marvelous M. Mpofu Sandra Ndlovu a seventeen year old young girl from Pumula South faced severe abuse from her husband in March 2020 during the lockdown period induced by COVID-19. On the 16th of March 2020 Sandra got into a heated argument with her husband because the husband had…

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. She struggles to ferry the 20litre bucket on her head as her one year old baby whines on…

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…