Regina Pasipanodya Tinevimbo Matamabanadzo (32) spent 10 years of agony, without determining the exact condition she was suffering from. She was finally diagnosed with endometriosis in her 20s and has now accepted her condition. “Since the age of 15, I have been experiencing unbearable abdominal pains. I did not know what to do or who…
Linda Mujuru, Global Press Journal Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. One evening in late July 2023, Belinda Mashavire received devastating news: her husband of five months, Joseph Foya, had been killed in a hit-and-run crash a few meters from their house. Witnesses believed it was a so-called pirate taxi, an…
This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. Linda Mujuru, GPJ ZIMBABWE Prisca was 5 years old when her mother left their southern hometown of Beitbridge to cross into South Africa in search of work. She was left in her grandmother’s care, but the arrangement didn’t last long. After her grandmother fell ill and…
Tafadzwa Mwanengureni At 15, Catherine*, a member of the Johanne Marange Apostolic Sect (JMAC), one of an estimated 160 Apostolic sects in Zimbabwe, got married to her husband of the same faith. Three years later, she welcomed her first child, beginning a pattern of almost yearly pregnancies. Catherine, now 37 years old, refrained from seeking medical advice due…
Tafadzwa Mwanengureni In 2023, Zimbabwe’s legal year unfolded in an intriguing fashion, drawing the nation’s focus with groundbreaking and contentious judgments in various trials. She Corresponds Africa looks at some of the court cases that commanded headlines throughout the year. Jaison Muvhevhi: Ex-cop serial killer Around this time in 2023, the country was in terror…
When Zimbabwean mother-of-four Eunice Sinoya enrolled in a first aid course near the capital Harare she was lured by the college’s promise of a job in Britain’s care sector. But more than a year on, she is sitting at home with her dream in tatters, the victim of a fraud that has cost her thousands…
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Linda Mujuru, Global Press Journal Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. “I just want to forget about it,” Tariro says. The 24-year-old woman remembers the night in January 2023 when she gave birth to twins, then buried them alive in a shallow grave behind a neighbor’s house. The memory lingers in…
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