Category: Human Rights
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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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When aging becomes a ‘curse’ in Zimbabwe
By Tatenda Chitagu/Hazvinei Mwanaka MASVINGO, ZIMBABWE-The tolling bell marks lunchtime at Mucheke Old People’s home in Masvingo city, ending hours of sun basking for 18 elderly inmates at the institution nestled in the heart of the populous Mucheke High density suburb. While others trudge to the dining hall, which is about five meters away from…