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Telling the other story – MEDIA CENTRE

Month: August 2021

Citizen Files Community Focus

Time bomb as villagers are exposed to unhygienic conditions

A health time bomb is looming following a discharge of water pollutants at a water point in Buhera. This is a potential health risk as villagers are washing their clothes and later discarding the water at the same point they…

Analysis Community Focus

Abuse of Covid-19 funds

The month of August 2021 saw the Auditor General’s latest special audit report on the financial management and utilization of public resources in combating the Covid-19 exposing gross embezzlement of funds. This proves to be a step backwards in the…

Citizen Files Community Focus Local Government News

Action starts showing up after media exposition

Following an exposition by our citizen reporter, Emmanuel Manyati in Mutoko who is constantly doing stories on the destruction of roads and other infrastructure related to the extraction of the black granite stone in the area, works towards refurbishments has…

Citizen Files Community Focus Opinion & Analysis

Wanton dumping of diapers in residential areas must be curbed

The dire absence of consistent and systematic refuse collection has led to the accumulation of diapers in urban suburbs of Zimbabwe. It is now a common feature that urbanities now dump used diapers in open spaces posing a serious health…

Citizen Files News Social Welfare

War Veterans Demand Improved Welfare

War Veterans Pressure Group PRESS STATEMENT 30/08/2021 We are here to clarify events that unfolded last week which resulted in the arresting and detention of 9 Gallant sons and daughters of the liberation struggle and to clear the perception that…

Citizen Files News

Parents, Teachers Welcome Reopening Of Schools

Most parents interviewed on 26 August 2021 in and around Mukore area give thumbs up to the re-opening of schools. However, they bemoan that the government did not give them enough time to prepare for the resumption of class room …

Citizen Files Community Focus

Media Centre Trained Journalist Defending Communities

Emmanuel Manyati, a capacitated citizen journalist from Mutoko is utilizing skills imparted to him through our project to advocate for the ban of granite trucks that are destroying roads and bridges that link marginalized people of Mutoko to the Nyadire…

Citizen Files Community Focus

BRIDGE On A Mission To Eradicate Gbv And Teenage Pregnances

BRIDGE IS A COMMUNITY BASED ORG ON A MISSION TO ERADICATE GBV AND TEENAGE PREGNANCES IN WARD 28, BUHERA SOUTH. After seeing an upsurge in gender based violence and teenage pregnancies, we decided to take it upon ourselves as responsible…

Blogs Citizen Files Community Focus

Granite Trucks Destroying Mutoko Bridges And Roads

Major roads linking Mutoko North Constituency and Nyamapanda highway are in real sorry and degraded state due to heavy trucks carrying the black granite stone from various extraction sites in the resource rich district of Mutoko. Many small bridges have…