Tag: Tugwi Mukosi
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Masvingo flood survivors drink untreated water
Hazvinei Mwanaka and Tatenda Chitagu MWENEZI-Martha Moyo (24) lives a stone’s throw away from a borehole drilled by a humanitarian organisation a few years after she was resettled in Nuanetsi Ranch in the hot and arid Mwenezi district of Masvingo province in 2014. But she barely remembers when last she fetched water from it. “I…
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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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Old rags in underwear: the sad tales of period poverty for Zimbabwe’s internally displaced persons
By Tatenda Chitagu The old tent that provides cover at a makeshift blair toilet for Martha Moyo in Nuanetsi Ranch is tattered and it is matter of time before it gives in to the vagaries of the weather. But Moyo, one of the 17 000 flood survivors from the basin of Zimbabwe’s biggest inland dam,…