Mavis Moyo

[1] She was born as Mavis Zulu on 17 July 1929[4] in Esigodini ("Essexvale"), a village in Matabeleland, 43 km south-east of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, and grew up there.

Initially, this work entailed reading inserts in Ndebele for a women's program called "radio home-craft club" (RHC).

[13] Support from UNESCO and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation helped to run and maintain the project,[14] which had the backing of the Ministries of Information, Post and Telecommunications, and Community- and Cooperative Development and Women's Affairs.

[15] A 2009 report by the Open Society Initiative, Public Broadcasting in Africa, makes mention of the project under the leadership of FAMWZ as Radio Zimbabwe's best known broadcasting initiative: "The project created radio listening clubs involving rural women who would gather to listen to programs by and about themselves.

"[16][17][18] After leaving the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, Moyo worked in support of DTR projects across the Southern African region, such as in South Africa's Kwa-Zulu Natal, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia and Angola.

[11] Throughout the 2012 interview with radio continental drift, Moyo emphasised the segregation of women coming out of a patriarchal society, their exclusion from any posts of influence, particularly from the media.