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HARARE – Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has issued a strong condemnation of alleged “recruitment” tactics targeting disadvantaged students. These tactics, involving scholarships specifically offered to members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community are being denounced as “unlawful, unchristian, anti-Zimbabwean, and unAfrican.”
UNITED STATES – Only a teenager when she came to the U.S., Ruth Marimo had already survived scrapes and heartbreaks from the suicide of her mother when she was a young child to her lonely flights to the U.K. and the U.S.
Gays have threatened to publicly name and shame top Zanu PF officials and ministers who are allegedly involved in steamy affairs with their members in a move which could potentially plunge President Robert Mugabe’s relationship with his colleagues into a new low.
The recent debate on gay rights in Zimbabwe can best be likened to playing cards on the deck while the Titanic is sinking. Debate on gay rights is not new to Zimbabwe; the homophobic regime of Robert Mugabe has sought to persecute gays and lesbians, just as it has sought to suppress anyone opposed to its misrule –– the righteous men and women of God not being spared writes Grace Kwinjeh.
Jabulani Sibanda, the notorious leader of the war veterans association in Zimbabwe has called for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to be ‘stoned to death’ because he spoke out in defence of gay rights. A few weeks ago Tsvangirai said “I hope the [new] constitution will come out with freedom of sexual orientation.