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Cyril Zenda
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Cyril Zenda is a Zimbabwean freelance journalist and writer based in Harare.

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zimbabwe_hiospital
Story
October 25, 2019
Acute shortages and strikes turn Zimbabwe’s hospitals into places of death
topic:Health and Sanitation
by:Cyril Zenda
For every 20,000 of its citizens Zimbabwe has only three doctors. And all doctors are currently are on strike, the sixth time this year alone.
xenophobia southafrica
Story
October 11, 2019
South Africa’s xenophobia problems result of leadership failure
topic:Xenophobia
by:Cyril Zenda
“We’re dealing with a volatile toxic mix of violence embedded in South African society…"
Zimbabwe lobola
Story
September 12, 2019
The case of the Zimbabwean lawyer who wants lobola (bride price) culture banned
topic:Women’s rights
by:Cyril Zenda
A Zimbabwean lawyer and women rights activist, Dr Priccilar Vengesai, has started a campaign to bring an end to the payment of lobola (bride price).
slavery
Story
September 02, 2019
Slavery on Zimbabwe’s “liberated” farms
topic:Slavery
by:Cyril Zenda
Zimbabwe’s former president, Robert Mugabe is being dragged before the courts by his former farm manager for making him work for no pay.
prison zimbabwe
Story
August 12, 2019
Zimbabwe’s prisoners bear full brunt of economic meltdown
topic:Economic Inclusion
by:Cyril Zenda
“I don’t remember when I last ate meat.” Those words are not said by a vegetarian, but by an inmate serving a lengthy prison sentence in Zimbabwe.
cattle
Story
July 17, 2019
Is southern Africa being punished for success of its wildlife conservation efforts?
topic:Conservation
by:Cyril Zenda
Jaison Chauke, a 66-year old villager in the Chilonga area of Zimbabwe’s south-eastern district of Chiredzi is an angry man. At least, once a month.
Zimbabwe HIV
Story
July 01, 2019
Zimbabwe moves to decriminalise HIV transmission
topic:Health and Sanitation
by:Cyril Zenda
“When this legislation came into effect, the thinking was that we need to control the spread of HIV by criminalising those who transmit it..."
africa violence
Story
June 12, 2019
Violence continues to make Africa unsafe for its citizens
topic:Political violence
by:Cyril Zenda
“The level of violence in Zimbabwe around election time is just too much and nothing that those of us who have seen our colleagues brutalised can stand."
africa torture
Story
June 03, 2019
The last African states evading convention against torture
topic:Rule of Law
by:Cyril Zenda
Among torture survivors are Robert Mugabe and his successor Mnangagwa, the leaders that appear fully convinced that torture is an effective tool.
zimbabwe aid
Story
May 20, 2019
Politicisation, theft of Cyclone Idai aid worsen survivors’ anguish in Zimbabwe
topic:Natural disaster
by:Cyril Zenda
Weeks after the calamity of Cyclone Idai, nothing had changed for the villagers around the Nyahode River in Zimbabwe.
HIV africa
Story
April 29, 2019
Born HIV positive, condemned for life
topic:Health and Sanitation
by:Cyril Zenda
A young man could not achieve his dreams because of one condition that he had never seen as a hurdle in his life… his HIV positive status.
zimbabwe women
Story
March 04, 2019
Why Abuse remains a fact of life for Zimbabwe women
topic:Women’s rights
by:Cyril Zenda
With the new leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa, promising a “new Zimbabwe”, women had every reason to rejoice as they thought their problems were over, but...
HIV africa
Story
February 13, 2019
African governments still consider mandatory testing tool to fight HIV/Aids
topic:Health and Sanitation
by:Cyril Zenda
After years of progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS, signs of new infections in sub-Saharan indicate a renewed increase.
africa women
Story
January 09, 2019
Cutting the chains of broken dreams in Zimbabwe
topic:Good Governance
by:Cyril Zenda
How a missing birth certificate threatened to change the life of Mercy Dodo.
Zimbabwe land
Story
December 17, 2018
Anguish as ethanol producer destroys livelihoods in Zimbabwe
topic:Economic Fairness
by:Cyril Zenda
The summer rains have just started in Zimbabwe. All peasant families are busy, trying to take full advantage of the early rains which may not last.
Hyppo Water Roller
Story
December 03, 2018
A Zimbabwean woman who defied the odds in the fight against sexual abuse
topic:Women’s rights
by:Cyril Zenda
Rita Marque-Mbatha from Zimbabwe, does not regret the day she started what later turned out to be a drawn-out 16-year legal battle for justice.
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