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Lived experience, told in the first person.
POST-ME: Grow, Baby, Grow
Growth is not comfortable. It requires you to continue to press forward and fight through doubt and fear. It's the tension you experience that facilitates growth. Muscles grow when they are forced to withstand a weight they have not been conditioned to bear. That weight causes the muscle to tear, but it builds back stronger. It may have been caught off-guard, but the tear will
Smiling Through Pain: Marvelous Fungurani’s Journey with Fibroids
Many women have uterine fibroids at some point during their lifetime. But you may not know you have them because they often do not present symptoms. Some women, though, have had to deal with more severe symptoms just like Marvelous Fungurani, who has lived with such symptoms for some years now.
Catching Up With Princess Siziba
A couple of years ago we interviewed an author, speaker and entrepreneur named Princess Siziba who had overcome many challenges as a teen mom and was determined to be successful. Well, since then, Princess has made in greater strides and now owns a publishing company. We decided to reach out to her and find out all about her new venture!
Forgiving The Father Who Violated Me
My name Zizo Izabelo zam Apleni, which means “These are my shares”, given to me by my maternal grandmother. My mum had me when she was in university, but my father denied the pregnancy, and so I became my maternal grandparents’ child. It is a very loving family: secure, warm and loving. At Christmas, everyone gathers at home for a big celebration where we share our dreams and a
My Divorce Birthed my Business
My name is Rumbidzai Patience Magaya, a mother of three turning 35 years [old] in November. I went through divorce early 2019, and I was a housewife then. When I was married, I discovered that my ex-husband was living a double life. When I say double life, I mean he had secretly married another lady without my knowledge. Some relatives knew about it, but I was in darkness.
TBT: Gems from Lucky’s Story – Embrace the New You After Loss
As you probably know by now, grief is our topic for the month of October. We recognize that grieving involves more than the loss of life, it can be the loss of anything significant to us. October also happens to be breast cancer month and I want to take us back to a story we published last October on a woman named Lucky Ndanu. She was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was i
TBT: Gems from Princess' Story - Shadows are Temporary
We did a story a few years ago on a woman named Princess Noma Siziba who had authored her first book Why l Never Gave Up, which detailed her struggles as a teen mom and how she overcame numerous obstacles. Princess has made even greater leaps and bounds in recent years (we’ll cover that in an upcoming story) but today, I'd like us to look back on some of the highlights we glean
Fighting for Justice: A Family at Odds
My parents would host parties at home in a bid to entertain guests and their workmates. I was only 11, and on this particular day, a close friend to my father decided it was too late to go back home after the party, so he was accommodated for the evening. Little did we know he had a plan that would change everyone’s life.
TBT: Gems from Christine's Story - No, You do Not Have a Bad Omen
Two years ago, I met a woman in Nairobi, Kenya named Christine Khatima. I had interviewed her a few months prior for a story for TWSC and meeting her in person was an honour. She is hands down one of the strongest women I have met and she doesn't look like any of the trauma she has been through.
Style Cabin Zimbabwe Founder Shares Her Story of Trauma, Tenacity and Triumph
Life has a way of taking away from us; but it has the capacity to give, particularly if we stay true to our dreams and aspire for the best. Sharon James, now the managing director and founder of Style Cabin Zimbabwe, a home decor and furniture company that specializes in exclusive lounge suites, modern sleigh beds, headboards, arm chairs and more, was not born with a silver spo
TBT: Gems From Sharon's Story - Rising from Desolation
Three years ago, we published a story about a woman who climbed to Mt. Everest's Base Camp just one year after surviving life-threatening surgery to remove multiple fibroids.
Determined: Dr. Chipo Mutambo Nyathi Shares How Education Liberated and Empowered Her
My name is Chipo Mutambo Nyathi. I am a projects director at Gezubuso Projects in South Africa and completed my PhD at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in public health and completed it earlier this year. But looking back at my life, college and high school was a struggle for my mom because I went to a school which was way beyond her means.