Clayton Moyo

I am a Radio Producer for the United Nations, stationed in Juba, serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. I hold a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. My thesis focuses on the intersection of national identities and sexualities in mainstream and digital discourses. I am also a Canon Collins alumni, so this house is all about social justice!

My Recent Work

Articles

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Featured Articles

Explore a featured selection of my writing work below.
UN Audiovisual Library •

SOUTH SUDAN / UNMISS RADIO MIRAYA

As a senior correspondent for United Nations-operated Radio Miraya for two decades, Gabriel Shadar, has seen it all. He has steadfastly reported important news and information to communities across South Sudan on diverse topics, ranging from the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2006 to the historic achievement of independence in 2011 and collapse into crisis just two years later.
SOUNDBITE (English) Radio Miraya Senior Correspondent, Gabriel Shadar:
“We were here reporting day and night, not sl...
UNMISS •

Children take over Radio Miraya to champion safe water and child rights | United Nations Peace Operations

CENTRAL EQUATORIA - "I visited a school where more than 1,000 children shared a single water source. They were fighting to drink and because it wasn’t sanitary, some of the children fell sick, leading them to miss lessons for days."Richard Robert is not describing a distant humanitarian crisis. He is recounting what he has seen in his own country. He is UNICEF’s Young Reporter, an advocate for children’s rights in South Sudan.Sitting across from him in Radio Miraya's studio are the day's hosts,...
UNMISS •

Radio Miraya brings women’s voices to the forefront in Yambio | United Nations Peace Operations

WESTERN EQUATORIA – “When women hold power, they provide essential perspectives that advance social justice, education, healthcare, and economic development.”Ann Tuna Richard is one of few women to hold that power in Western Equatoria. As the Speaker of the State’s legislative assembly, her success inspires others to try and secure influential roles in the executive branch of government. However, there are many hurdles to overcome in reaching such political heights.“Women are peacemakers when th...

Op-Ed: Tackling disinformation is an urgent task for Zim media – CITEZW

By Clayton MoyoThe power to self-publish by technology users has inevitably changed the communications landscape in a disruptive way. Those whose trade is to produce and distribute information are still trying to establish order in an environment of unrelenting chaos, or so it seems.What emerges as quite a threatening challenge of our times is disinformation and predictably, misinformation – a lesser threat.
Misinformation has always been a part of human interaction and dispelling it each time i...
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 gruesome murder 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 m...
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.
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
UN Audiovisual Library •

SOUTH SUDAN / UNMISS RADIO MIRAYA

As a senior correspondent for United Nations-operated Radio Miraya for two decades, Gabriel Shadar, has seen it all. He has steadfastly reported important news and information to communities across South Sudan on diverse topics, ranging from the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2006 to the historic achievement of independence in 2011 and collapse into crisis just two years later.
SOUNDBITE (English) Radio Miraya Senior Correspondent, Gabriel Shadar:
“We were here reporting day and night, not sl...
UNMISS •

Children take over Radio Miraya to champion safe water and child rights | United Nations Peace Operations

CENTRAL EQUATORIA - "I visited a school where more than 1,000 children shared a single water source. They were fighting to drink and because it wasn’t sanitary, some of the children fell sick, leading them to miss lessons for days."Richard Robert is not describing a distant humanitarian crisis. He is recounting what he has seen in his own country. He is UNICEF’s Young Reporter, an advocate for children’s rights in South Sudan.Sitting across from him in Radio Miraya's studio are the day's hosts,...
UNMISS •

Radio Miraya brings women’s voices to the forefront in Yambio | United Nations Peace Operations

WESTERN EQUATORIA – “When women hold power, they provide essential perspectives that advance social justice, education, healthcare, and economic development.”Ann Tuna Richard is one of few women to hold that power in Western Equatoria. As the Speaker of the State’s legislative assembly, her success inspires others to try and secure influential roles in the executive branch of government. However, there are many hurdles to overcome in reaching such political heights.“Women are peacemakers when th...

Op-Ed: Tackling disinformation is an urgent task for Zim media – CITEZW

By Clayton MoyoThe power to self-publish by technology users has inevitably changed the communications landscape in a disruptive way. Those whose trade is to produce and distribute information are still trying to establish order in an environment of unrelenting chaos, or so it seems.What emerges as quite a threatening challenge of our times is disinformation and predictably, misinformation – a lesser threat.
Misinformation has always been a part of human interaction and dispelling it each time i...
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 gruesome murder 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 m...

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