Author: Hazvi Mwanaka
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DEMINING: Undoing the land curse for sustainable economic development
Hazvinei Mwanaka Chiredzi/Sango border post One sunny morning in 2010, Hlengani Mudzikiti decided to look for his herd of cattle that had gone for grazing. Navigating his way in the densely filled minefield, he followed his beasts’ hoof prints, carefully stepping where the cattle did. This had been his tactic for many years until this…
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The price that Chingwizi pupils pay for education
Hazvinei Mwanaka. The day starts at 4am for 16 year-old Shyline Tichagwa , a form four pupil at Nyuni Secondary School in Nuanetsi Ranch in Mwenezi district. Tichagwa, from Tsviyo village, prepares meals for her four siblings, does household chores before enduring a six-kilometer walk to school. Shyline, whose parents died leaving her in…
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People affected by COVID 19 yearn for counselling
Hazvinei Mwanaka MASVINGO- Every time she catches a cold, her heart starts beating faster. The vivid picture of her ill grandmother lying down on a mat deeply agonized with pain is still lingering in the back of her mind. “If I could erase a moment in my life is the time I nursed my sick…