Last year, ZGC chairperson Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe said the Gender Commission Act gives the commission a mandate to investigate and make legally binding recommendations to fight the practices.

“It has been observed that rape, abuse of underage girls, and the marriage of the young women, has intensified and this problem is spreading across the country,” ZGC commissioner Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe said at the event.

A myriad of youths in this part of the country have found themselves in South Africa, thanks to the illegal entry points that take them across the crocodile-infested Limpopo River through the risky national parks in Mozambique and South Africa.

A myriad of youths in this part of the country have found themselves in South Africa, thanks to the illegal entry points that take them across the crocodile-infested Limpopo River through the risky national parks in Mozambique and South Africa.

It is against this background that the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) with support from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has been catering for  the humanitarian needs of 3 000 people with food and health interventions over the past four months.