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Zimbabwe’s government undertook a survey in 2023 to ascertain how many children were living on the streets of the country’s second biggest city, Bulawayo. The most recent numbers were from a similar 2015 survey, the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Welfare told reporters – and, in the intervening eight…

Rocky Leanders, then 15, was beaten with wooden paddle by Smyth at camp where boys were made to swim naked

Justin Welby resigned as archbishop of Canterbury following a damning report about a prolific child abuser in the Church of England. The report into decades of abuse of more than 100 boys perpetrated by the barrister John Smyth QC in the UK, South Africa and Zimbabwe detailed the Church of…

Edith Nyachuru described her brother Guide, who was 16, as a ‘lovely boy’ who was a good swimmer.

In Zimbabwe’s Shona language, mental illness is known as chirwere chepfungwa or kupenga. Before British colonial settlers arrived in 1890, traditional healers (n’anga) played an important role in helping people to manage their mental as well as their physical health.

The United States foreign food aid program can be a big help when extreme weather fueled by climate change hammers communities

Smyth enjoyed ‘opulent lifestyle’ in Cape Town after he was barred from Zimbabwe, where he abused boys at summer camps

An elephant stood on its hind legs to reach over the heads of tourists and rip a branch from a tree overhead in Zimbabwe.

Vast human-made Lake Kariba is at near-record low, causing daily power cuts and devastating two African economies

Makomborero Haruzivishe was nearly killed before he fled his home country two years ago, and is now studying law and politics in Kent.

The left-armer made the last of his 24 Test appearances three years ago.