Clayton Moyo

I am a Radio Producer for the United Nations, stationed in Juba, serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.

My Recent Work

Articles

Explore a featured selection of my writing work.
United Nations Peacekeeping •

Stability spurs agricultural boom along Central Equatoria’s main supply corridor

UNMISS' Radio Miraya went live from Aru Junction with stories of how traders and farmers are benefiting from relative stability and peace with the support of peacekeepers from Nepal.

Photo: Clayton Moyo/UNMISS.




Abawu Lorna operates a modest stall at one of the bustling markets in Aru Junction, a lively town in Central Equatoria.As the breadwinner, she is taking care of her family, including her unemployed husband, and the cost of sending her five children to school.

Media and Information Literacy for Zimbabwe – Interlink Academy for International Dialog and Journalism

The project aims to empower the people in Bulawayo and Matabeleland North and South with essential media literacy skills. The project includes an in-depth training of multipliers which will become our future community leaders and teachers, as well as establish local media literacy hubs.

Our sources of information have become diverse. News, facts, speculations, opinions and lies are part of our media diet. How can we make sense of the information that we consume?
The Mail & Guardian •

Government threatens Zimbabwean journalists over ‘Gold Mafia’ story

As Al Jazeera’s “Gold Mafia” expose continued to unearth the shocking corrupt dealings of associates of Zimbabwean ruling politicians, there was an expectation of a response from government officials.

A response has indeed come. A top official, Deputy Chief Secretary in Presidential Communications (long title for presidential spokesperson) George Charamba, is threatening journalists with imprisonment.

Some of the top journalists in the country have already expressed concern over this. Editor o
The Mail & Guardian •

Zimbabwean youths drink and smoke themselves to oblivion

“Ah, we won’t be having this crew in the next five years. They are drinking and smoking themselves to oblivion,” says one of the patriarchs as we slaughter a neighbour’s beast in my village in southwestern Zimbabwe over the weekend.

He says so as he points at one of the young lads who has taken a break to gulp down a mouthful from a small bottle of what has become a popular alcoholic beverage across rural and high-density suburbs in Zimbabwe’s urban centres.

The alcoholic volume of the beverag
Canon Collins Trust •

On Queer Precarity and Liveable Spaces — Canon Collins Trust

This prize winning essay first appeared in the Mail and Guardian’s Thought Leader blog. See it here.

They placed his bloodied shoes at the gate of his home. They had left his stabbed and mutilated body in a sewerage manhole. This of Sphamandla Khoza is one of the latest in a chain of murders of gays, lesbians and transgender people in South Africa. It is so commonplace that one reads it like the many violent crimes that happen here. The banality of violence against queer bodies masks the gravit

Produced Radio Interviews

These are interviews that I produced, and they were presented by my on-air colleagues, Irene Lasu, Sebit William and Magdolin Joseph Kwajok.

Social Media

I find social media quite intriguing because of the immediate responses from users - from insightful feedback to downright dismissive - I mean really crude stuff. Here is a sample of social media work that I have done lately. 

"We South Sudanese are definitely beautiful, beautiful skin, nice smile," says the confident Miss Junubia Runner Up, Yar...

Posted by Radio Miraya on Wednesday, November 1, 2023