Danmore Chuma

Formal education, which has a colonial face, and misconstrued as civilisation, is increasingly becoming more autocratic and directive, failing to meet the daily needs of the majority of the people with no respect for the learner. 

We are seriously disturbed by a tragedy that left 5 prisoners dead and 30 others seriously injured after trigger happy prison officials opened fire at the defenseless captives for merely demanding food, barely three weeks after the abduction of a human rights defender.

‘I am gay and I am catholic and I can not say it out because of fear of victimization. I realized that I was gay when I was 16. I was born like this and I know many of my friends who are gay.

The persecution and discrimination of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) persons has become a common feature in Zimbabwe and Africa in general. Zimbabwe is one of the 38 countries in the Africa that prohibit same-sex marriage.