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New Digital System Aims to Close Gaps in GBV Prosecutions
Zimbabwe has introduced its first digitised Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Case Management System in a move expected to transform how sexual and gender-based violence cases are monitored, analysed and pr...
Governance Failures Dominate Zimbabwe Councils, Auditor-General Finds
Governance failures have emerged as the single biggest challenge affecting Zimbabwe's local authorities, with the 2025 Auditor-General's Report on Local Authorities revealing that weak internal contro...
Zimbabwe's Teen Suicide Crisis: When Home Becomes a Place of No Return
A 16-year-old girl from Bulawayo ingested insecticide after discovering she had passed only two of her seven O-Level subjects. A 16-year-old boy from Mabutweni took poison after his grandmother told h...
Benin to Host ICASA 2027
 By Munyaradzi Blessing DomaBenin has been selected to host the 24th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, marking the first time the West African nation will stage the continent's prem...
Ex-Lovers Trade Explosive Abuse Claims in Court
A bitter fallout between former lovers spilled into the Harare Civil Court today, with each accusing the other of assault, property destruction and intimidation in a relationship that has now ended in...
Guruve RDC Fails to Account for ZWL$202.74 Million in Lease Revenue
Guruve Rural District Council's ability to collect and account for millions in public revenue has come under scrutiny after the Auditor-General exposed serious weaknesses in revenue administration, mi...
Urban Mining Chaos Triggers National Task Force
The Government has announced a nationwide crackdown on illegal and unplanned mining activities in urban and peri-urban areas after Cabinet warned that the rapid expansion of mining operations is destr...
Five Zimbabwe Divorces That Exposed Hidden Fortunes
Deputy Agriculture Minister Davis Marapira's divorce from Sibusisiwe Melody Marapira (née Mutendi), daughter of Zion Christian Church (ZCC) Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi, has become the latest high-profile...
Councils Set to Gain Arrest Powers and Municipal Courts Under New Bill
Zimbabwe's local authorities are set to receive sweeping new law enforcement powers after Cabinet approved the Municipal Police and Courts Bill, legislation that will allow councils to establish munic...
Life – Impilo: Mahlaba's Story in Song
Award-winning Bulawayo jazz musician Charles Banda, popularly known as Mahlaba, is set to launch his latest album, Life – Impilo, on August 1, a deeply personal project inspired by everyday life.The 1...