I am a Dr. of Human Rights Law qualified at the University of Cape Town. I work in Gender Intentionality and Transformation in Public Health and Policy Making.
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Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
Loudest fans in Africa, NO DEBATE! From the first whistle to the last tackle — you DID NOT STOP! 🇿🇼🎉
This is what home advantage sounds like! We heard you! We felt you!
ONE OF THE BEST FANS IN THE WORLD! 🫶🏽🏟️
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
Why is South Africa’s scientific research output so much higher than Zimbabwe’s? Beyond university funding, a massive structural barrier is pushing local researchers away: Zimbabwe’s prohibitive regulatory fees for ethical clearance. Imagine you’re a Zimbabwean doing your PhD at an international university (e.g., in SA, UK, or US). You want to return home to conduct health research in your own community. Before asking a single survey question, the system hits you with massive paywalls. Because your PhD degree is from a foreign university, you trigger dual-layer regulatory fees:
$500 USD to the Research Council of Zimbabwe (RCZ Foreign Permit)
$200 USD to @MedicalZimbabwe (normal PhD Review)
1% of your total budget as a statutory levy
While local university students get local currency rates and fee relief, Zimbabwean scholars abroad must pay hard USD. A simple $15,000 PhD grant gets slapped with over $850 USD in state fees before you buy a single pencil or hire transport.
Now look at South Africa’s model:
SA uses a decentralised HREC system (run by local universities like Wits, UCT, Stellenbosch).
Enrolled students pay $0.
External researchers pay a flat admin fee (~$160–$450).
The result? Zimbabwean PhD candidates studying abroad are actively priced out of doing fieldwork in their home country. Instead of generating local data to inform Zimbabwean health policies, students shift their field sites to South Africa, where ethical approval is cheaper and faster. If Zimbabwe wants to boost its scientific output, reforming these regulatory fees for returning scholars is essential.
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
People being allowed to APPLY for asylum is not the same thing as being GRANTED asylum.
An asylum seeker still has to satisfy the requirements under the Refugees Act. There is a legal process for determining whether their claim meets the threshold for refugee status.
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
🔸Good day @nickmangwana,
When we say this Govt is anti-poor, this is exactly what we mean. If this was a functional country, this lady would be in decent retirement, enjoying a decent pension or have access to a social grant.
However, because public money is looted and spent on Gucci shoes, private jets and Rolls Royces, she’s on the street vending in order to try and make an honest living.
Daily, we see money spent on luxury cars and big cash donations to buy off the support of the rich and influential yet there is no money for the poor, vulnerable and aged.
Your declaration of war on the poor is disgusting and tells us everything we need to know about how selfish, insensitive and cold-hearted you political elites are. It’s a mess.
Stop attacking the poor.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
Violence against women & girls is a persistent & pervasive global scourge.
Ending this crisis is essential for sustainable development & human rights.
Let’s invest in women’s organizations delivering proven, locally led solutions & build a world of safety & dignity for everyone.
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
📢 DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Applications for the 8th Intergenerational Retreat of the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) are still open!
An opportunity for young African women leaders to connect across generations, share knowledge and benefit from mentorship.
📍 Libreville, Gabon
📅 New deadline: 9 September 2026
🔗 Apply here: awlnafrica.net/apply
#AWLN #IGR8 #AWLNIGR2026 #WomenLead
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
Ladies!! There is an ongoing Joint National Inquiry into the reporting, victim support, investigation, prosecution, sentencing and rehabilitation of GBVF cases in South Africa.
If you have experiences, evidence or information relevant to these issues, please make a submission!
Fanon clocked this, he said the liberation ‘heroes’ would betray the people becoz for them, wars of independence were never really about the people, but a way to replace the colonisers &enjoy being the bourgeoisie. I get why Fadzie says we need new leaders-they aren’t saving us
Not to defend Zanupf,
But If I remember correctly,
86 workers died during the construction of the Kariba dam,
In what was said to have been a preventable disaster.
Being 72 Black workers,
14 White,
"Black laborers were assigned the most hazardous manual tasks,
Safety protocols, protective equipment, and healthcare access were heavily prioritized for European staff compared to local African workers." (Source:Google)
Same oppressive system,
Just now led by Black oppressors.
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
One of the major lessons here has been how even the highly educated elite is using Arday's "downfall" as a Trojan horse. They are laundering their anti-Black prejudice under the guise of academic integrity.
The usual suspects leading this charge are using Arday as a battering ram against diversity initiatives. They have deliberately tied the legitimacy of all Black academia to one man's success, creating a dynamic where his isolated failings are now used as a systemic indictment of an entire community.
They are trying to gatekeep their racial-elite spaces by using the weapon that has worked for their ancestors before them.
How many White academics have done worse? How many have been used to indict the entire White academic community and question their place in universities? They are treated as just "a few bad apples".
They have, including all other privileges, the right to fail as individuals and individuals alone.
By all means investigate Arday, but when you start masking your racial resentment behind a sudden devotion to academic standards, that is just modern segregation acting exactly as it is intended.
The extraordinary case of Professor Jason Arday
As high-profile Cambridge professor Jason Arday resigns after a string of allegations about plagiarism, @kirancmoodley explores what this complex story really reveals about academia.
Read our latest newsletter:
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Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
This compendium presents my analysis and recommendations on the concept of reproductive genocide, a subtext of “medicide” as a public health crisis.
Medicide, defined as the deliberate and systematic targeting of hospitals, medical workers and patients — and reproductive harm, violence, genocide, understood as the policies, practices and conditions that destroy the reproductive health and life-giving capacities of communities subjected to military violence and occupation.
My last act of radical love in action as the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health. I hope this report meets the moment and brings us closer to justice and liberation for all oppressed people in the world. ❤️
ohchr.org/en/documents/tools…
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
Sudan war: Inside the world’s worst humanitarian and protection crisis for women and girls
"Widespread killings, mass displacement, and systematic sexual violence have left more than 17 million women and girls in need of humanitarian assistance. Blockades and ongoing insecurity have worsened already dire conditions for women and girls, who need food, safe shelter and healthcare and an end to the violence"
unwomen.org/en/articles/in-f…
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
Cricket fans!
If you’re looking for a place to stay in Victoria falls Zimbabwe for next years World Cup, don’t look further than Victoria Falls River Lodge. No joke, this is not a paid advertisement, I’m here now and it’s just incredible!
Thank me later 👊
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
Surviving childbirth shouldn't depend on where you live, what you earn, or whether a clinic has supplies. Maternal deaths are largely preventable. Investing in maternal health saves lives.
@EU_Partnerships
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#MaternalHealth #HealthForAll
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
Some girls don't cross borders for opportunity. They are taken across them to undergo FGM where the law can't protect them. Harm doesn't stop at national boundaries. Neither should our efforts to end it.
esaro.unfpa.org/en/news/fami…
#EndFGM #ForEveryGirl
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
As Zimbabwe awaits the next step in the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3) process following its passage through Parliament, the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) reiterates its call for a national referendum on these proposed constitutional changes.
In our Statement of Inputs to Parliament, we maintained that the Bill fundamentally alters the 2013 Constitution, including provisions that extend the tenure of current office holders. Given the far-reaching nature of these amendments, we believe they require the direct consent of the people through a national referendum, rather than parliamentary approval by institutions and individuals that stand to benefit from the proposed changes.
The 2013 Constitution is a people's covenant. Any fundamental changes to its architecture should be determined by the people themselves.
"Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the poor and needy." - Proverbs 31:9
#ConversationsOfHope
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
If #CAB3 is really so popular as you say it is…
WHY ARE YOU SCARED OF A REFERENDUM?
Let the People have a say!
#NoToCAB3 #OneManOneVote
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
🔸Lol. Where did you get that from? Hakuna mutemo wakadaro. In any event, kuroorana is not a customary marriage. It is an unregistered customary law union.
Lots of misconceptions exist, unfortunately, which is why I advocate for it to be taught in school. If a person can memorize the anatomy of a locust, they can grasp the basic legal principles pertaining to marriage. But tikazvitaura munoti maparts ehwiza anotidzidzisa kuvaka ndege so there’s not much we can do.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
💌"When I travel across my constituency, I do not hear people asking for the Constitutional Amendment. I do not hear unemployed youth demanding CAB3. I do not hear mothers asking for CAB3. I do not hear farmers, pensioners, workers, teachers, or vendors demanding CAB3.
What I hear are cries for jobs, calls for affordable education, pleas for food on the table, demands for reliable transport, decent accommodation, and functional hospitals.
Thank you, Hon. @KarenyiKore, for speaking from the hearts of Zimbabweans. #NoTo2030 #RejectCAB3
Dr. Pretty Mubaiwa retweeted
I would like Cabinet, Parliament and council to sit with this photograph for an afternoon.
In fact, every high school teacher, whatever the subject, should ask students to write an essay on what they see here. The answers would probably take us closer to the solution to Zimbabwe’s problems than most policy papers.
Every boardroom should spend time with it too. For good measure, the Zimra board should take it on a weekend retreat and ask its economists to calculate how much OK has paid in taxes over the past decade.
Then they should look again at the pavement outside.
I am keeping this photograph for my book.
