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by Mangudze Shammah

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African Proactive, Resilient and Independent Minds with Empowerment (AfriPRIME) in partnership with Hope for a Child in Christ (HOCIC) funded by Latter-Day Saints Charities,help in the development of Mafanisa village garden (Umguza area, ward 4) as they assist villagers set up a community garden, activities including drilling a borehole, fencing, mounting of solar panels and a tank have been completed, the garden is now ready for cultivation as beds have been prepared.
The project’s objective is to improve nutrition for village members, the youth also have a pivotal role to play as they have their own section allocated to them in the garden, youth are given entrepreneurship and financial literacy training so that income generated from the garden is managed properly and also benefiting their households.
The work is still in process as the organisations have partnered with people of the village to try and upgrade the standard of the community garden as a measure to try and rescue the community from the doldrums of economic disadvantage through fencing the garden, enabling the people of the village to partake in farming projects and as well provision of food.
AfriPRIME is conducting counselling sessions with the youth in Mafanisa and other villages in Ward 4, most youth come from disadvantaged families, child headed families or are faking care of the elderly and become breadwinners making them vulnerable as it leads to more problems like school drop outs, working in mines, early marriages and teenage pregnancies.
Support groups providing a safe space for youth to vent freely have been created, Sexual Health and Reproductive health is also a core aspect as there is a rise in teenage pregnancies in the Ward, community members are also taught on how they can help to address mental health issues amongst youth and where they can get help.

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by Mpofu Nomathemba

Kimberly Moyo (not her real name) from Zaka Jerera in Masvingo who came to Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo in 2020 barrered her soul in an interview on her transition from being a descent girl to a sugar baby on campus.
Kimberly Moyo met sugar daddies during her first year at University through her friends. She would struggle to pay for her accommodation, food and other necessities. Peer pressure is also another thing that she talked about that she wanted to be like other students on campus.
Blessers are a new trend in society especially to the youths of today. The Slay Queen culture that is a new wave that is sweeping away the youth as they try to maintain their standards.The vulnerability of our sisters should not be preyed on by older men with an unlimited desire for sex with young women, in exchange for money and related favours.

by Unfiltered Stories

The Great Zimbabwe university students are excelling in the media industry as they are working on a movie titled “Love hurts”. They started shooting the movie last year in December, but due to Covid-19 , they have not finished shooting the first season of the movie. Clemence Moses Mambodo, who is the Director says the he was motivated by his uncle who is also a director for ,” Muzita Rababa”.Moses said that he is going to try harder, by making means of shooting the first season before the end of the semester as viewers are already complaining for being left with suspense. The movie is available on Youtube https://youtu.be/Ydfi0qLFgMg . However, funding has been a challenge for the production but the school has promised that it is going to help. For now it has only provided camera equipment and the movie is being shot at the school premises.

by Trymore Tagwireyi

A storm brewing at Chasiyatende business centre in Chivi district under the jurisdiction of Chief Nemauzhe ,where more than 30 businessman who had their infrastructures were forced to sign their signatories on unveiled question are forms which automatically victimize them after signing. The business centre serves more than 45 000 people but a syndicate led by a called Sibanda erects a fence over the area for mining purposes. In an interview with Mr Mavhima a businessman who operates at the area said”we go through genuine paperworks with Mr Sibanda on the terms of resettling people to another area and he agreed ,but iam surprised now to see people who are now mining at the place and they were a syndicate of Mr Sibanda .Score of shops,grinding mills,bottle stores among other structures at the business centre are facing collapse owing to continued gold mining activities by unlicensed mining syndicate . The guys are operating as Sibanda syndicate having been digging for the ore despite them producing the necessary documents to prove the claim has been legalised and approved by the Ministry of mines. In an interview ,with Mr Sailas Chimbi an Omnibus operator at the area postulates that since the beginning of the panning activities three years ago the digging and blasting has forced four grinding mills structures to collapse due to the explosives used by the miners .Some pits and shafts were found in the middle of the shops and some local premises nearly the shopping centre sustained huge cracks especially at Mr Tagwirei homestead which is some few metres from the shops .Mr Magirazi made several attempts on calling the EMA departments and they never came .