Youth group in Chipinge wants everyone from tech companies to regular people to actually deal with online harassment that keeps hitting women and girls. Platform for Youth and Community Development dropped a statement during the 16 Days of Activism campaign, saying digital abuse became another layer of violence they have to fight besides physical attacks and mental health crises.
The org runs programs with traditional leaders to stop child marriages and works in schools, handling bullying situations like what went down at Katanga High School. They launched an EndDigitalViolence Campaign that teaches online safety and pushes for cyber harassment laws while training parents and teachers on internet stuff. PYCD said tech platforms should...
A church group in Zimbabwe started building the first university Chipinge has seen since independence and locals are hyped after waiting 45 years for higher education to come back. The United Church of Christ took over a massive plot in St Kelvin and plans to open Gazaland University by next year with programs like disaster management, IT, pastoral counseling and manufacturing engineering.
The vision came from youth fellowship members who rode bikes 560km back in 1998 to push the idea but construction only kicked off in late 2023. Rev John Matiza and the foundation committee said they want 6,000 students on campus eventually, with more degree options getting added over time. The government backed the move and regulators are working on...
Zimbabwe Council of Churches wants the government to hurry up and create special courts for gender violence cases because the situation keeps getting worse across the country. Church leaders said Parliament already called for these courts back in July and pushed for spreading legal aid services around, but nothing has really happened yet. They pointed out that abuse goes against basic human dignity and shows deeper problems, like women getting shut out of leadership roles and communities having weak protection systems.
The council told government officials, cops, traditional leaders, and regular people to put more work into prevention programs and helping survivors get back on their feet. Church groups promised to boost their own...
Zimbabwe's power company just announced they're installing prepaid meters in Hwange's Ingagula suburb and residents are absolutely livid about it. The electricity folks framed it as an upgrade from bulk metering, but locals see it as the government giving up on moving them out of a zone that got declared unsafe years ago because of pollution.
Environmental agency reports showed contamination levels blowing past WHO safety standards and residents have been waiting forever to get relocated away from nearby mining operations that keep messing up their health. Community organizers said the meter rollout proves authorities have zero intention of actually evacuating people from the condemned area, which makes the whole thing feel like...
A traditional healer in Bulawayo named Gogo Chihoro has been pulling crowds to her Woodville Park place every weekend. People show up dealing with business problems, family drama, false accusations at work, and mysterious health issues that doctors can't figure out. A Gweru guy said his poultry operation went from bust to hiring staff after her cleansing sessions, while a Kadoma woman got her family talking again after six years of beefs.
A teacher from Plumtree avoided getting wrecked by financial misconduct charges when an audit cleared her name, and an old man from Mutare says herbs from Gogo fixed a weakness that had him feeling cooked for years. The healer runs appointments through three different phone numbers and keeps saying...
Bulawayo residents want their associations registered with the Consumer Protection Commission because they need funding to actually fight back against bad service. Winos Dube from the United Residents Association said people keep getting slammed with massive water bills during shortages when taps stay dry for weeks. One ward went two full years without water but still got monthly charges.
Registration would unlock budget money for awareness campaigns in 2026 and help residents push back on trash infrastructure. Roads are falling apart with potholes everywhere, from main streets to neighborhoods. Meanwhile, Michael Ndiweni from the Vendors and Traders Association called out shops for putting security devices at entrances that treat...
Zimbabwe lawmaker Discent Bajila from Emakhandeni-Luveve told Parliament to stop sitting on bills that have been collecting dust forever. He called out how the Persons with Disability Bill has been stalled and said ministers need to actually show up and push these things through instead of letting them rot.
Bajila wants faster movement on the National Languages Bill and the National Disaster Management Bill that the president talked about. He said local medicine manufacturing needs government cash and tech to track drugs from factory to patient and stop black market leaks. The rep also pushed for road fixes on major routes like Harare-Chirundu and Bulawayo-Victoria Falls since they basically hold up the whole economy.
Opposition party Zapu went after traditional leaders over their wild demands for running Gukurahundi hearings in Matabeleland. Chiefs apparently wanted monthly cash payments, hitting 4k USD plus massive fuel allowances and Starlink kits for their houses, which got shut down by the government.
Party spokesperson Brian Ncube said the greed showed chiefs cared more about getting paid than helping genocide victims find justice. The hearings are happening behind closed doors without media access, and they left out Midlands province, even though killings happened there during the 1980s crackdown that killed over 20,000 people. Chief Matshane Khumalo denied the allowance reports, but Zapu called the entire process a sham that betrays victims.
Zimbabwe cops are telling traffic officers to back off after motorists got heated about vehicle seizures over petty stuff. Commissioner Paul Nyathi held a press conference in Bulawayo and said nobody authorized police to impound cars because drivers forgot their emergency triangle or reflective jacket at home.
Provincial commanders got orders to brief their traffic units on how to act less aggressively when they pull people over. Nyathi warned that officers who keep threatening drivers with illegal seizures will face consequences. He also went after the mshikashika operators running unregistered public transport and blamed them for fatal crashes with overloaded vehicles.
The police spokesman criticized motorists for not knowing basic...
