{"id":2925,"date":"2019-07-30T11:28:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T11:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracamacheltrust.org\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2019-07-30T11:28:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T11:28:20","slug":"celebrating-our-women-in-media-network-memberssuccess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/womens-economic-and-social-advancement-highlight\/celebrating-our-women-in-media-network-memberssuccess\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating our Women in Media Network Members&#8217;success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trust would like to congratulate members of our Women in Media Network &#8211; Selma\u00a0Inoc\u00eancia \u00a0and Suzgo Khunga &#8211; who have recently been appointed into new and exciting roles in their respective countries. We wish them the very best in their endeavors!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selma Inoc\u00eancia &#8211; Chief Operations Officer, Center for Democracy and Development (Mozambique)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2929\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2929\" class=\"lazyload  wp-image-2929\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27251%27%20height%3D%27378%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20251%20378%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27251%27%20height%3D%27378%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Selma-400x603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"378\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Selma Inoc\u00eancia &#8211; WiMN, Mozambique<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Selma Inoc\u00eancia is our WiMN newest member who joined the network in 2017. Still mentoring girls through a platform that develops transformational female leaders with Girl Move Academy and heading a Youth and Leadership organisation in Mozambique while freelancing as a correspondent for Deutsche Welle, <strong>Selma has just been appointed to manage the Electoral Program, as Chief of Operations Officer in Center for Democracy and Development in Mozambique<\/strong> to deliver 3,000 national observers in preparation for the Mozambique general elections. In 2017 Selma received the Gra\u00e7a Machel Trust\u2019s Founders\u2019 Award in recognition for promoting the values, principles and spirit of the Founder of the Trust and the network.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Selma has been working in the media space for over 10 years as television news anchor, journalist and editor. In 2014, she joined IREX Mozambique working as a Media Specialist with USAID Mozambique Media Strengthening Program to train university students to improve the sustainability and efficiency of Mozambican media through professional training, business management, journalism education, community radio and advocacy. Prior to joining IREX, Selma worked as Director of Journalism at Grupo Record\u2019s TV Miramar. From 2008, she worked as a news presenter and host of economic programs. Between 2008 and 2013, she produced and lead debates, produced reports, made interviews and conducted live broadcasts. Selma won two CNN African Awards CNN (2011 and 2013).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suzgo Khunga &#8211;\u00a0Public Relations Officer at the Malawi Parliament<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2926\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2926\" class=\"lazyload  wp-image-2926\" src=\"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-400x600.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27211%27%20height%3D%27317%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20211%20317%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27211%27%20height%3D%27317%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-500x750.jpg 500w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-700x1050.jpg 700w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Suzgo-Khunga-scaled.jpg 1707w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Suzgo Khunga- WiMN, Malawi<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suzgo Khunga is our WiMN member who joined the network in 2016. After 17 years working in mainstream journalism with two major media houses in Malawi, she has recently been appointed as the<strong> Public Relations Officer at the Malawi Parliament<\/strong>. She will be taking the <em>Parliament to the People<\/em>. Suzgo also wears a different heart as an advisor for Duku Voices, an initiative that is documenting stories of Malawian women who are leading and building the nation while also working with and training young women on digital story-telling\u00a0 and how to use modern methods to tell stories in their communities. Congratulations to you Suzgo!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Women in Media Network (WIMN) is the Trust most recent network comprising of 38 highly experienced journalists from 15 countries across Africa. A key focus of the network is to challenge the current perceptions and mindsets about Africa\u2019s women and children and how they are portrayed in the media. We believe that through balanced storytelling we will be able to shape a new reality \u2013 one that reflects more nuanced stories, told in the way that women want and deserve their stories to be told.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/women-in-media-network\/\">\u00a0Read more on our Women In Media Network here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trust would like to congratulate members of our Women  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_rtcl_gb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens-economic-and-social-advancement-highlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}