Music has ability to shape vocabulary

Street lingo exudes a unique form of expression and music gives people freedom to interpret it in ways they understand.
By Sharon Zebra Mar. 6, 2024

VillageRhapsody: Women's vulnerability to climate change often overlooked

Women’s land rights have a wide-reaching impact on food security, eliminating hunger and poverty, reducing gender-based violence, and on tackling climate change.
By Evans Mathanda Dec. 31, 2023
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Zim home to 1m child brides: Unicef

A landmark 2016 Constitutional Court judgment declared child marriages unconstitutional and set 18 years as the minimum age for girls and boys to consent to marriage.
By Sharon Buwerimwe Oct. 5, 2023
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Shock rise in HIV+ teens

The gap lies in resourcing the level of scale-up needed and investing in additional measures to promote uptake in vulnerable and marginalised groups.
By Vanessa Gonye Sep. 14, 2023

‘MPs must advocate for stiffer penalties for child marriage offenders’

MPs had demanded that Parliament should do something to protect the girl child from early marriage during a sitting last week.
By Harriet Chikandiwa May. 24, 2023

‘Climate change shocks, hunger fuelling child marriages in Zim’

Available statistics indicate that child marriages are rampant in the country, with% 34% of girls getting married before the age of 18 and 5% before they turn 15.
By Lorraine Muromo May. 6, 2023

Political will needed to fight child marriages

Zimbabwe has in the past years recorded a surge in child marriages which is rife in the apostolic sects.
By Newsday Jan. 6, 2023

Early marriage and its devastating effects

Their parents passed away, and at 15, Elizabeth had already started engaging in sex work in order to earn a living.
By Tafadzwa Mwanengureni Dec. 29, 2022

Child marriages rampant in farm compounds

Speaking at Matoranhembe High School during the launch, Gumbochuma said economic and cultural challenges were fuelling cases of child marriages in farming compounds.
By Varaidzo Mudewairi Dec. 18, 2022