Sunday 25 July 2021 - 5:20am
eNCA s Zimbabwean correspondent Pindai Dube reports. Courtesy of #DStv403
HARARE - The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists is deeply worried by the number of media practitioners who are dying from COVID-19.
At least six have succumbed to the virus since the beginning of this year.
The union wants authorities and media houses to make sure reporters are safe while doing their jobs.
The latest journalists to succumb to COVID-19, include state broadcaster ZBC journalist Tawanda Gudhlanga, and former Voice of America journalist Sandra Nyaira.
Zimbabwe Union of Journalists president Michael Chideme said, our encouragement is to the authorities that, let s stop press conferences lets stop physical contacts with journalists, lets do virtual meetings so that we don t compromise our pressmen everybody needs the journalists to tell their story, you can t tell the story when journalists are dead
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World Press Freedom Day celebrations held in Chinhoyi.
Deputy minister of information media and broadcasting services
Kindness Paradza called on the media to be organized and fight for their
rights the way they been agitating for other professions like doctors,
nurses and teachers among others.
He called on media players to be coordinated for the Fourth Estate to
remain noble.
orders from President Emmerson Mnangagwa) was to help on media
freedom in the country and it includes journalist’s welfare. I was told to
work hard with the minister so that the media concerns are taken care of.
I will have meetings with media houses over issues to do with poor