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

Percy Zvomuya is a writer.
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/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/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]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2238cbdc417a4830a6a352209d05db72_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)