Welcome all to Wezhira!
Wezhira, as people from Masvingo province are popurlarly known in Zimbabwe, is the name for the community radio, lauched in 2006 and registered as a trust in 2007.
Masvingo province has seven administrative districts with a population of more than 1,7 million people. Three quarters of the population lives in the rural areas and need a reliable source of information. The other quarter that lives in the urban centres also need to be informed about events that take place in the province and beyond.
That is why Wezhira Community Radio was formed. Its main objective is to give an altrernative voice to the people in the province who rely on newspapers which are not easily accessible to the people and whose escalating costs have become prohibitive.
Wezhira, as people from Masvingo province are popurlarly known in Zimbabwe, is the name for the community radio, lauched in 2006 and registered as a trust in 2007.
Masvingo province has seven administrative districts with a population of more than 1,7 million people. Three quarters of the population lives in the rural areas and need a reliable source of information. The other quarter that lives in the urban centres also need to be informed about events that take place in the province and beyond.
That is why Wezhira Community Radio was formed. Its main objective is to give an altrernative voice to the people in the province who rely on newspapers which are not easily accessible to the people and whose escalating costs have become prohibitive.
