Jacob Mafuleni hopes music can help break the cycle of drugs and teen pregnancy plaguing Dzivarasekwa settlement.

Jacob Mafuleni hopes music can help break the cycle of drugs and teen pregnancy plaguing Dzivarasekwa settlement.

In 25 years, the couple-run Harare-based Weaver Press published hundreds of Zimbabwean fiction and nonfiction titles.
![A portrait of Weaver Press publishers Irene Staunton and Murray McCartney at their home in Harare, Zimbabwe [Cynthia Matonhodze/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Cynthia-R-Matonhodze_01-1703724234.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
In 1976, President Mugabe said ‘votes must go together with guns’, but it is the army that has pulled out the weapons.
![Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe President Canaan Banana attend the ceremony for the independence of Zimbabwe, 18 April 1980. [William Campbell/Sygma/ Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2238cbdc417a4830a6a352209d05db72_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)