Use of Mesoprostol for illegal abortions in Zimbabwe
“Zimbabwean Junior doctors are on strike due to low pay. I know for a fact that some of them are conducting illegal abortions using a drug ( not sure what it is but it is used to for ulcers) for about 50 000 to 60000 or even more. [...]

South Africa is Africa ’s richest country, with state-of-the-art infrastructure and impressive economic growth that have made it a regional marvel and favourite investment and leisure destination for the world’s rich and famous. Tawanda Kanhema was recently in South Africa and observed how high levels of poverty, socioeconomic imbalances and violent crime continue to pose threats to the country’s economic development and relatively young democracy, where more than 20 million people live below the poverty datum line.

‘Tis Better to be that which we destroy…”

Lessons from Saddam’s Execution
By Tawanda Kanhema
“TIS BETTER to be that which we destroy, than by destruction to dwell in doubtful joy,” Nothing can be more apt in describing the situation simmering in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad following the rushed hanging of Saddam Hussein last week, than this observation [...]

Shantytown blitz splits Zim
Published in The Southern Times, 2 June 2005From Tawanda Kanhema in Harare
Its midday in Harare, and while bulldozers roll over shacks and slums in Mbare, one of the city’s oldest suburbs, a sea of people with wardrobes, cutlery and paraphernalia of other household effects flocks to the city’s oldest and busiest Mbare [...]