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Woman returns to Wales hospital where career started for 80th birthday: ‘I was the first black nurse to come here from Rhodesia’
A woman celebrated her 80th birthday by revisiting the hospital where she began her nursing career nearly 60 years ago. Agnes Musikavanhu, one of the first overseas nurses to help address staffing shortages in Swansea Bay in 1967, left Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) alone at 22 to train at Morriston Hospital. Returning decades later, she found…
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How Praise Matemavi endured teenage pregnancy, 2 divorces to become Zimbabwe’s 1st female transplant surgeon
As early as age 4, Praise Matemavi had aspirations of being a medical practitioner. At the...
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The Bible, tradition draw swords against Zimbabwean women who prefer having two husbands
Polyandry is an individual choice, but, those who express that choice live in chains of fear,...
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South Africans Stand in Solidarity with Fellow Africans To Protest #XenophobicSA
On Thursday, both South Africans and immigrants marched together in anti-xenophobic protests...
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South Africa Sends Army To Stamp Out Violence, Africa Reacts to #XenophobicSA
With seven people being killed by South Africans in a rash of xenophobic violence in recent weeks, on Tuesday, the government sent the army to a number of hostels (pictured) in order to deter further violence,...
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Mugabe Threatens To Boycott EU Summit
The European Union (EU)-Africa Summit set for April 2-3 in Brussels has refused to issue Mugabe’s wife Grace a visa to attend. Mugabe and his wife Grace have already been affected by travel bans,...
