By Fitzgerald Munyoro For many small scale businesspeople in Zimbabwe, the outbreak of Covid-19 spelt doom but for Grace Shamhu the pandemic has changed her life. Shamu (57), from Odzi in Manicaland Province, was a struggling tailor when the country…
Read moreBy Nokhuthaba Dhlamini Fourteen-year-old Sabelo Ndlovu was determined to become a nurse and was one of the few pupils in her rural school in Nkayi in Matabeleland North Province that took their studies seriously. Ndlovu, an orphan badly wanted to…
Read moreBy Delicious Mathuthu People living with disabilities in Zimbabwe are being left out of Covid-19 response programmes because of the general unavailability of messages about the pandemic that are tailor made for them. This came to the fore on the…
Read moreBy Pamenus Tuso Loveness Gumbo says she will forever regret her decision to inform her landlord after she tested positive for Covid-19. Gumbo in Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo, said she suffered at the hands of her landlord, friends and…
Read moreBy Hazvinei Mwanaka People living with HIV/Aids must continue taking their anti-retroviral medication even after testing Covid-19 positive, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official has said. Mkhokheli Ngwenya, a WHO Zimbabwe technical officer, said studies were still ongoing on how…
Read moreBy Nhau Mangirazi Rumbidzai Bakasa*, a mother of seven girls, says her life was hell until she joined a community savings club in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West’s Hurungwe district. Bakasa said she gathered the courage to escape an abusive marriage during…
Read moreBy Sukuoluhle Ndlovu For Muchaneta Chisvo*, a commercial sex worker in Masvingo, the Covid-19 pandemic has taught her the importance of having several streams of income for a rainy day. Chisvo (24), said the lockdown to stop the spread of…
Read moreBy Kenneth Matimaire Private hospitals in Zimbabwe’s eastern border city of Mutare are charging an arm and a leg to Covid-19 patients in critical condition, a survey has shown. A Covid19zim.com snap survey revealed that Covid-19 patients were being charged…
Read moreBy Fitzgerald Munyoro There is no need to fear Covid-19 vaccines, some religious organisation leaders have said, and urged members of the general public to take heed of the advice of experts in science and medicine. The religious leaders have,…
Read moreBy Lemuel Chekai Zimbabwe’s rural population are willing to take Covid-19 vaccines even though the rate of inoculations has been affected by the erratic supply of vaccines, a Unicef Zimbabwe survey has revealed. The survey, which was carried among village…
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