adminChituwa is the champ
Collin Matiza Sports EditorTHE IFK Kyokushinkai Zimbabwe successfully staged their second Knockdown Karate Championships at the City Sports Centre at the weekend where Naison Chituwa emerged as the overall champion.
MSM’s biased coverage of the Gaza blockade
Robert Wright
There’s reason to hope that the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel will lead to an easing of Israel’s suffocating economic blockade of Gaza. The ceasefire text said “opening the crossings and facilitating the movements of people and transfer of goods . . . shall be dealt with after 24 hours from the start of the ceasefire.”
Of worker transfers, notices
At the Workplace Wenceslaus Murape
There are many reasons given by companies for the transfer of workers from one branch to another or to a sister company. Although it is within the companies’ prerogative to effect transfers, questions have been asked concerning the notice or time frame that should be given to a worker.Partnering to fight HIV/Aids
David Bruce Wharton
Every year on December 1, we commemorate World Aids Day. It is a day to reflect on the lives lost and forever changed, as a result of Aids. It is also an opportunity to pay tribute to the 34 million people living with HIV worldwide. Today, we celebrate those lives saved and improved in Zimbabwe and recommit to the fight against Aids.Namibia: Making healthcare accessible
Moses Magadza Features CorrespondentOPUWO. — At 26 years of age Vemupomanda Tjivinda commands a lot of respect among his fellow Himbas, a community of pastoral nomads that roam Namibia’s hard-to-reach Kunene region with their goats and cattle in search of water and grazing. Tjivinda is one of 34 young Himba men and women who have just graduated as Namibia’s first health and extension workers after undergoing comprehensive training in the provision of Community Based Health Care Services (CBHCS) under an initiative spearheaded by the Namibian Government with the financial and technical support of Unicef, USAID and other development partners.
Imam Husayn: The reformist
Mohammad Assadi Features CorrespondentThere is a popular saying within the Muslim world which goes: “Every day is Ashura, every land is Karbala”. This statement is derived from the event of Ashura, which marks the martyrdom of Imam Husayn, is widely commemorated and observed within the mainstream Shiite and Sunni Muslims during the first month (Muharram) of the Islamic year.
Health insurance the way to go
Abel Dzobo Features WriterA FRAIL, pale woman joins the queue to consult self-styled prophet Madzibaba Jehoniah at his shrine. Her arms hang acutely at her sides like a harridan’s brown-gray mucus, whose viscosity is enhanced by snuff to form a brittle burnt-chocolate pig iron rod.
Violent storm wreaks havoc in Mt Darwin
Elita Chikwati Features Writer
Endesayi Poyera of Zambara village eagerly waits to hear news on the condition of her mother and son who were taken to Mt Darwin District Hospital.
Although she still has pains in the back and on her arm, her main worry is the condition of the two hospitalised after sustaining injuries when the house they were in collapsed following violent winds that swept the area.
Too young to get married
Marcia Gore Features CorrespondentAt the age of 14, Evelyn Magumise (not real name), who is a domestic worker in Glen Lorne has seen life’s good, bad and ugly sides. Having lost her mother and forced to marry at the age of 13, Magumise had two miscarriages which resulted in her divorce. She has endured the pain and horror of being a mother while still a child. Magumise’s is just one of the many cases of early forced marriages and their negative impact on the livelihoods young women.
Domestic violence still a challenge
Roselyne Sachiti Deputy Features Editor
MARTHA (26) (not real name) has seen it all. Having customarily married her boyfriend who had forced himself on her resulting in an unplanned pregnancy a few months before writing ‘O’ Level examinations, she reminisces every chapter of her married life painting a chilling picture.