Southern Africa: Condolence Message On the Passing On of Journalist Lucy Yasini

A longstanding member of MISA Zimbabwe, Yasini was also a leader in her own right and once served as a member of the organisation’s Harare Advocacy Committee in defence of media freedom and citizens’ right to access information.

The passing of senior journalist Lucy Yasini will undoubtedly create a void in the number of female journalists who report from the ‘frontlines’ in the otherwise male-dominated Zimbabwean media landscape.

Yasini was always in the thick of things, toe-to-toe with her male…