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Cyril Zenda
Author
Cyril Zenda is a Zimbabwean freelance journalist and writer based in Harare.
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Story
February 21, 2020
Eswatini women challenge oppressive laws
topic:
Women’s rights
by:
Cyril Zenda
What impact has the recent landmark court ruling that ungraded married Swazi women to be equal partners in marriages had?
Story
February 10, 2020
Worry over South African women vanishing without trace
topic:
Women’s rights
by:
Cyril Zenda
South Africa is a country with a very high crime rate, and also rated as highly unsafe for women.
Story
February 03, 2020
Social media helps mend African refugees’ broken social fabric
topic:
Refugees and Asylum
by:
Cyril Zenda
According to various researches, the social media have become an indispensable source of information for today’s refugees.
Story
January 08, 2020
Tanzania bars citizens from seeking justice at the African Court
topic:
Good Governance
by:
Cyril Zenda
The Government of Tanzania in December 2019 withdrew the right of individual citizens and NGOs to directly approach the African Court on Human Rights.
Story
December 27, 2019
Latest hanging dashes hopes for end to death penalty in Botswana
topic:
Death Penalty
by:
Cyril Zenda
Botswana – one of the remaining few African countries that still carries out the death penalty – announced an execution by hanging on 2 Dec.
Story
December 19, 2019
Zimbabwe: Free sanitary wear program for rural schoolgirls
topic:
Child rights
by:
Cyril Zenda
In mid-November when Zimbabwe’s Finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, unveiled the country’s 2020 budget, he had surprises for many people.
Story
December 09, 2019
Who is behind machete killings in Zimbabwe’s goldfields?
topic:
Security
by:
Cyril Zenda
“Who will protect citizens from their ‘supposed’ protectors?”
Story
November 25, 2019
Zimbabwe elephant deaths blamed on ban in wildlife trade
topic:
Conservation
by:
Cyril Zenda
Hundreds of elephants have died during a severe drought in Zimbabwe.
Story
November 16, 2019
Hope for African women as more governments make laws to fight cyber bullying
topic:
Women’s rights
by:
Cyril Zenda
In October 2019, South Africa passed an updated version of its cyber law that include provisions that specifically criminalise non-consensual pornography.
Story
November 06, 2019
Landmines continue to kill people in Zimbabwe
topic:
Security
by:
Cyril Zenda
De-mining efforts have been slow in the past in Zimbabwe due to a lack of funds and commitment on the part of the government.
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.
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…"
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).
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.
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.
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.
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Daniel Mützel
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Daniel Mützel is a Berlin-based Journalist writing for EurActiv, VICE, Die Welt and other media.
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Gurmeet Singh is a freelance writer and editor, living and working in Berlin.
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