Geoff Hill

The world forms its vision of South Africa through the reports of over 200 foreign correspondents working in the region. Geoff Hill asks some of them how they try to make global audiences care.

Around the world, people involved in the Zimbabwe debate talk about the WHAM factor or “What happens after Mugabe?”Can Zimbabwean media be rebuilt after Mugabe? Geoff Hill speaks to senior journalists Basildon Peta and Gerry Jackson, who were forced to flee their homeland in the face of repressive media laws.

In 1982, when Mugabe’s government bought Zimbabwe’s private newspapers with money from the Nigerian military regime, the world missed what would follow. Geoff Hill, author and foreign correspondent, sees a message for South Africa.