A NEW online television station, ZeemTV, is offering a range of thought-provoking stories from around Zimbabwe while amplifying citizens’ voices.
JONATHAN MBIRIYAMVEKA
The channel, formed by a consortium of civil society organisations, will air content on Twitter, Facebook, Tik Tok, YouTube as well as on its website.
According to producers, ZeemTV will feature exclusive visual content that tells the story of the lived realities of Zimbabweans from across all social, political and economic sectors.
“Zeem TV is a great source of soft and hard edutainment stories on citizens’ constitutionally guaranteed rights and aims to ensure access to reliable, relevant, accurate, widespread and consistent information as a necessary catalyst to increase citizen demand for implementation of the constitution,” said Blessing Vava, who is also Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition head.
“So far, ZeemTV has five key programmes; We The People, which focuses on discussing the relevant provisions of the constitution of the day, Around Zeem; which seeks to tell the story of Zimbabweans from across the country.
“Powder Room is a discussion point on issues affecting women on a daily basis, and African Yut, a programme that amplifies the voices of young people making a difference in their communities, while highlighting issues around their participation in civil, political and economic process,” he said.
Vava said the station celebrates the country’s diversity and its quest for oneness as enshrined in the founding values of our Constitution.
Zeem TV also has a weekly news analysis programme that looks at excusive headlines.
Asked what differentiates Zeem TV from other mainstream television stations like ZBCTV, Vava said they were bringing diversity.
“To date, Zeem TV, which has been running its programmes prior to the launch, has successfully aired special programmes, one focusing on the role of the unnamed women heroes who participated in the liberation struggle.
“The other on the paradoxical life of the Kanyemba people who have to risk their lives while trying to cross the Zambezi River in order to get treatment in Zambia.
“Zeem TV has also run a special programme documenting the story of the Domboshawa Hills,” he said.
