While commorating World Environment Day on June 5, let's us remember the millions of people who do not have access to safe drinking water. Let us remember those girls and boys not attend ding classes because they busy looking for water. Yes we can change the course of events.
Southern Africa Wash Media Network (SawamNet) regrets the jailing of one of it's members, Jeffrey Moyo, a Zimbabwean Journalist freelancing for NYT. Government of Zimbabwe alleges that Moyo crookedly obtained two IDs for the NYT reporters, an allegation denied by his lawyers.
Once upon a time, being South African saved me from the inside of an Egyptian prison. Now, in the rest of Africa, my nationality evokes fear and contempt rather than respect and admiration. https://t.co/voeZhFYA1G
"In Newsroom wash stories are used as fillers. I think we are not doing any justice to the sector [in terms of wash reporting]"-Kenneth Dlamini, Swazi @SwaziObserver