Masvingo, Zimbabwe
$300 - $400 / Day
I am a multi-media investigative journalist and fact checker with more than ten years’ experience. I write for the biggest privately-owned daily paper, The Newsday, and its sister weekly, The Standard, as well as The Washington Post. Before joining the Newsday and The Standard, I have been a news editor for the Masvingo Mirror, the counttry’s biggest privately-owned weekly newspaper for the Zimbabwean southern region. I have also corresponded for a privately owned Sub-Saharan radio station, Radio Voice of the People (VOP). As someone working for the private media in Zimbabwe, I have been harassed by both state security agents and ruling ZANU PF party members and officials over my critical reporting. I am the current winner of the UNICEF Zimbabwe Child journalist of the year award (Oct 2019) as well winner of the Haller Prize for Development Journalism award in sub-Saharan Africa (2016). In 2015, I also won the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association’s (ZimRights) Best Human Rights Defender Journalist of the Year award. I have been a fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford (Oct 2017-March 2018) and I hold a Msc in Media and Society Studies from the Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. I hold memberships in the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ), Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and the Voluntary Media Council in Zimbabwe (VMCZ). I am also a member of the Digital Communication Network in Africa
Produced for Humanitarian Information and Facilitation Center (HIFC)
This was an investigative story on how minerals in Zimbabwe did not benefit the fiscus or the ordinary people as the diamonds were mined secretly under the guise of 'prospecting' for two years. A Chinese company, accused of abusing workers, looted the diamonds even though it was not granted a mining licence.
This is a story about how the construction of what will become Zimbabwe's largest water body, Tokwe Mukosi dam, affected 18 000 villagers in the dam flood basin. After flooding hit the area, the villagers were evacuated and put into Chingwizi, a transit camp which was overcrowded and the villagers lacked tents, food and social amenities.
Produced for HIVOS
This a story on how access to energy has transformed the lives of 3 000 villagers in a remote rural area in Zimbabwe's Mutare city. The villagers are earning a living from projects which were necessitated by the availability of hydro power from a perennially flowing river in their backyard.
This is a story about how the El-Nino induced drought in southern parts of Zimbabwe has left communal farmers with no harvest and make them food insecure households.
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