This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. Linda Mujuru, Global Press Zimbabwe In 2018, Pelagia Chikwera, a soft-spoken mother of three, attended a free cervical cancer screening at a hospital in Harare. “There was an advertisement about a free cancer screening, and I decided to go since it was free,” she says. “Little…
Women need to be capacitated on legal frameworks around Online Gender Based Violence (OGBV) in order to protect themselves from digital harassment, various stakeholders have recommended. This came out during a conference hosted by Emthonjeni Women’s Forum, Friday, whose objectives were to raise awareness of OGBV and to strengthen the role of women as agents of change in the fight against the same. …
FOLLOWING the success story of Uganda, which established a wildlife-dedicated court in 2017, specialising in wildlife-related cases, Speak Out for Animals (SOFA) believes a similar move in Zimbabwe will go a long way in addressing challenges in wildlife cases. For a long time, wildlife cases in Zimbabwe have been addressed in the main courts, which…
A local conservationist and falconer of Kuimbashiri Bird Sanctuary, Gary Stafford is working on establishing Zimbabwe’s first vulture rehabilitation centre on the shores of Lake Chivero – one of the country’s most important reservoirs. Situated 32 kilometres South East of Harare on the Manyame River, Lake Chivero covers a 26 kilometres square area and serves…
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