Mhariri Mtendaji Wa Kwanza Jamii Atembelea Gazeti la @Verdade la Maputo,Msumbiji

The truth has no price

Daraja's Simon Mkina, Managing Editor of our Kwanza Jamii local newspapers visited Mozambique recently. He was there to learn from the experiences of the @Verdade newspaper, a weekly newspaper that like Kwanza Jamii, puts the community first. Unlike Kwanza Jamii, however, @Verdade is distributed free of charge. In this post, Simon Mkina tells us what he found.

By Simon Mkina

THERE is no way, one could walk around Maputo City without seeing busy shopelas (three wheeler tuk-tuk, in Shangana vernacular) stopping by the road sides embarking or disembarking passengers.

Shopela, yellow tuk-tuk do that in all busy streets in Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique, from Monday to Thursday, but not on Fridays or Saturdays. Those two days are reserved for something else.

So what are they doing in the mornings on those two days? Simple, they are busy distributing heaps of newspapers to various areas in Maputo and in the locations.
Source: http://blog.daraja.org/