News stories by Vusumuzi Sifile

Mary Pamire will never forget the day a group of men took turns to rape her.

A new play, Waiting for Constitution has generated great interest among politicians and civil society groups anxious to get consultations over drafting a new constitution under way.

Eleven-year-old Memory’s grandmother wanted her to drop out of school because she is not going to live long enough to complete her studies.

Months of delays may prove to have strengthened the process of producing a new constitution for Zimbabwe. When a 65-day public consultation finally begins, citizens will be primed and ready.

Martha* knows she and her two young sisters need medicine. She also knows where to get it — a clinic a few yards away from her home in Glen Norah, a high-density suburb in the Zimbabwean capital.

When Kgomotso Mogami threw her name into the hat to contest the Gaborone Central parliamentary seat it was easy for many people to write her off.

Last season, for the first time in her more than 20 years as a farmer, Elizabeth Runema harvested her maize crop at the beginning of February.

Harare mayor Muchadeyi Masunda is a troubled man. When he took office in July 2008, one of his most immediate tasks was to resolve the water crisis in the capital.

Primary and secondary school education in Zimbabwe has 'fallen woefully behind' other southern African countries due to shortages of textbooks and other materials as well as deteriorating working conditions and resultant low morale for teachers.

Farmers could be losing tonnes of crops every harvest just because no one has bothered to tell them that scientists have found more effective methods of using water to farm.