Stephen Tsoroti is a journalist from Zimbabwe.

He worked as a journalist and contributing editor covering a number of beats that including health, environment, arts and culture, and developmental issues.

Stephen has been awarded a Friedrich Naumann Foundation Media Rural Reporting fellowship, British Council Reporting on Arts and Environment Fellowships, World Bank institute Fellowship, National Press Foundation, Journalists to Journalist Fellowship, Reuters Foundation COVID-19 Reporting HUB fellowship, and won several journalism awards in his country.

His work has been published in his home country and abroad.

Stephen Tsoroti

Basic information

Name
Stephen Tsoroti
Expertise
health, environment, arts and culture, developmental issues
Country
Zimbabwe
City
Chitungwiza
Twitter

Supported projects

Inside Zimbabwe's illicit gold-mining trade

  • Armed conflict
  • Corruption
  • Environment
  • Finance

HARARE - Gold is Zimbabwe's chief export product. However, partly because of the country's monetary policy, an estimate of 50% of artisanal and small-scale mined gold in Zimbabwe is lost to smuggling, causing bloody turf wars that have claimed hundreds of lives.

Young miner in Zimbabwe shows mercury coated gold