Mary Mundeya / Regina Pasipanodya It is around 6pm on a chilly March night, and Themba Maphosa* is seemingly deep in thought as he sits alone in the campus library. By just looking at him one can see he is agony. His eyes are reflecting hopelessness, such that even the most undiscerning persons can see…
Michelle Chifamba Edna Muchingami* (not real name), is part of the many women in the central business district of Zimbabwe’s capital city Harare- who line the streets during the day and at night selling vegetables to make a living in the difficult economic times that the country is going through. At the age of twenty,…
ABOUT 40 houses in Bulawayo’s Old Pumula suburb are affected by recurrent toilet drain blockages which has forced them to relive themselves in the bush. The city is in the process of rehabilitating its sewer system. When a CITE news crew visited the suburb on Friday, it was observed that the affected residents have stopped…
Gamuchirai Nyamuziwa IT is a Tuesday afternoon and 60-year-old Rebecca Gwanzura endures the scotching sun as she waits in a long-winding and slow-moving queue to collect her pension at the POSB branch along Leopold Takawira Street in Harare. On any other day she would have been busy collecting plastics to sell to recyclers, so that…
Mary Mundeya / Regina Pasipanodya Grace Chakari* (17) becomes uncomfortable whenever she is asked about how she became pregnant at 14 and a mother at the tender age of 15, only to lose her flesh and blood last year, when he was 11 months old. Talking about her life experience is something that she finds…
Tafadzwa Mwanengureni In 2018, Precious Marwa*(36) lost her husband to an HIV-related illness after he fell sick for less than a month. Marwa, a mother of two, does not know if her husband defaulted on his Antiretroviral therapy (ARVs) or not, or whether he was on the treatment at all. She believes her late husband…
Takudzwa Chikakayi Harare City Health Director, Prosper Chonzi yesterday confirmed a Cholera outbreak in the capital and encouraged residents to stay on high alert sighting the disease’s potential to spread rapidly. This comes at a time cholera outbreaks have been noted regionally with Zimbabwe so far having recorded so far recorded more than 500 cases….
Regina Pasipanodya FOLLOWING recent concerns raised by the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), that government has neglected their welfare, 43 years after independence, a cross section of Zimbabweans believe the freedom fighters are becoming irritating “cry-babies” given the handouts they have received over the years. The ZNLWVA is funded by government, while war…
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