Tapiwa Zivira is a Zimbabwean digital journalist who works for Alpha Media Holdings, the biggest independent media house in Zimbabwe. He started his career at the time when the Robert Mugabe government was at the height of cracking down on the independent press.
Tapiwa Zivira | |
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 T. Zivira | |
| Born | September 26, 1985 Rutsanana Martenity Clinic, Harare |
| Nationality | Zimbabwean |
| Occupation(s) | Digital journalist Information Officer |
In March 2007, as an intern, he wrote an account describing the death of Gift Tandare, an opposition Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai activist who was shot by police while demonstrating in the high-density suburb of Highfield, Harare.[1]
In 2009 Zivira was part of the team that produced the report If something is wrong and the documentary House of Justice on the abuse of farm workers during the land reform programme and the atrocities committed by the government of Robert Mugabe on the farm workers.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ Tapiwa Zivira (March 18, 2007), "The day Highfield was turned into a battlefield", The Standard
- ^ If something is wrong: The invisible suffering of commercial farm workers and their families due to "Land Reform", November 11, 2009, archived from the original on April 25, 2015
- ^ House of Justice, 2009, archived from the original on 2021-12-15