By Kuda Bwititi recently in Nyanga
FOR many years, domestic workers in Zimbabwe have been enduring unfair labour practices and working long hours for a paltry salary.
Features
Domestics in modern-day slavery
Car dealers mushroom
By Charlotte Musarurwa
DEALERS in second-hand motor vehicles have taken the country by storm, taking over open spaces in major cities.
Pupils’ hell at private school
By Edwin Mwase and Lincoln Towindo
A PUNGENT smell of fresh human excreta from the headmaster’s office greets visitors at Rusununguko Primary School in Epworth, just outside Harare.
The smell ironically denotes the rot that characterises the school, which does not have any other building apart from the run-down office occupied by the headmaster.
The headmaster’s office apparently acts as a toilet for use by the pupils when he is away.
‘REA please give us electricity’
By Faith Mhandu
AFTER obtaining his Advanced Level results, Ngoni Mashanga of Mhondoro thought he had kissed poverty goodbye as he had passed with flying colours.
Promising his parents to do his best, he enrolled for a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Zimbabwe
HIV stigma taking ‘too long’ to shake off
By Fortunate Gova
HIV and Aids are among the most discussed subjects in Zimbabwe, yet it seems people are taking long to accept reality.
Hardly a day passes without anything being publicly said about the pandemic through radio, television or newspapers.
Yet in the midst of all the awareness
Stolen childhood
By Lovemore Chikova
HUMAN trafficking is a subject that is scarcely talked about in Zimbabwe, yet those who deal with the issue say it is rampant.
Engines behind economic growth
By Gwendoline Mugauri
THEY were notorious for mismanagement of funds and leadership squabbles, but co-operatives, which were popularised at independence in 1980, are making a comeback.
Waging war against drought, handouts
By Johnson Siamachira
“WE have to fight animal diseases or else our livelihoods will be threatened,’’ says Mrs Dolly Moyo, a community-based animal health worker in Mangala Village in Chief Nyangazonke’s area, in the Matobo District of Matabeleland South.
When firefighters take too long to come . . .
By Kuda Bwititi and Itai Mazire
WHEN a fire broke out early this month in a 100-hectare maize field at Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare, the prison officials were left in a sticky situation.
The officials had only two choices: either to let loose 200 prisoners
New face of domestic violence
By Lincoln Towindo and Diana Muringisi
THE term “domestic violence” is often associated with the image of an irate man viciously bashing a helpless woman into submission.
African youths, rise up and shine
NOT many Zimbabweans know Tendai Wenyika but this youthful girl, who is the deputy president of the Pan African Youth Union, lit up the little town of Malabo in Equatorial Guinea Thursday June 30 when she made a presentation that left many Heads of State and Government shaking their heads in disbelief during the 17th AU Summit whose theme was “Accelerating Youth Empowerment for Sustainable Development”.
Rich, poor drift apart
by Kuda Bwititi
IT is that time of the year when workers and employers engage in collective bargaining with the hope of improving salaries and conditions of service.
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