Women’s struggles in Zimbabwe. The first female fishing cooperative on Lake Kariba

12/2020
Claudia Wegener report for the German monthly paper “Graswurzel Revolution”, GWR454
“Zubo Trust was able to successfully rely on the above-mentioned means, the sensitisation of men and the creation of women’s forums to accompany social change on the ground– because, since then, it had not been common practise in remote Binga that women, or women-cooperatives hire men. Strategically, for such social change to take root and be sustainable, it also proved to be crucial that Zubo team was closely partnering with the local office of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development (MoWA), as well as involving the traditional chiefs in all local activities. Strategies, by the way, that Zubo Trust has maintained since as successful.”
Full article in German https://www.graswurzel.net/gwr/2020/11/frauenkaempfe-in-simbabwe/
in English translation https://radiocontinentaldrift.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/womens-struggles-in-zimbabwe/