by Faith Mangwanya | Jan 17, 2022 | Entertainment, Family, Love & Sex, Thoughts & Reflections
I never thought I would be one of those women who feel a sting each time they heard someone had tied the knot. Yet here I am today. My social media feeds are scrawling with friends, relatives, enemies, even people I don’t know tying the knot. It seems that...
by Faith Mangwanya | Oct 19, 2021 | Development, Empowerment, Thoughts & Reflections
A few months ago, I wanted to buy a new laptop. I had saved up for months and had a healthy budget for a high-end, high spec’d laptop. I had saved 80% of the money needed to buy the laptop; when I came across a deal to buy an expensive laptop at a fraction of the...
by Faith Mangwanya | Aug 24, 2021 | Development, Education, Empowerment
I once had a friend, we shall name her Nomsa. We were discussing some of the challenges we were facing in the job market and how to overcome them. For Nomsa, it seemed like a while ago when she had to decide to choose which university she would attend. Nomsa was...
by Faith Mangwanya | Aug 4, 2021 | Current Affairs, Empowerment
I grew up in a cosmopolitan suburb in the southern parts of Johannesburg. In the early 2000s, the community was an eclectic mix of white Afrikaners, a few Indians who owned the local grocer, blacks and coloureds who had worked their way out of the townships, and a...
by Faith Mangwanya | May 5, 2021 | Thoughts & Reflections
2020 was a hard year in Zimbabwe. When the first lockdown hit, the economy was already worn for wear and many people felt their livelihoods being clinched by the austere measures in the country and the rising difficulty in earning a decent livelihood. Covid-19 caught...