Farai Mwakutuya is an African journalist who has worked for Uganda's

Nation Media Group Nation Media Group (abbreviated as NMG) is a Kenyan media group listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange. NMG was founded by Aga Khan IV in 1959 and is the largest private media house in East and Central Africa with offices in Kenya, Uganda, and Tan ...

and NTV. For some years he was with ZiFM Stereo in Zimbabwe. He has interviewed Dr. Lazarus Dokora who was Zimbabwe's Minister of Education, Sport and Culture, and has reported on events such as the house arrest of Robert Mugabe.

Background

Farai Mwakutuya was born in Zimbabwe.

Career

Mwakutuya began his journalistic career in Zimbabwe in 1998. In 2007 he relocated to Uganda. In Uganda, he worked for

. He also worked for

NTV Uganda NTV Uganda is a Ugandan television station under the Nation Media Group, NMG, operating in East Africa. It has been on air since 2006. It is one of the companies owned by Aga Khan IV. During the Arua elections, NTV Uganda reporter Herbert Zziwa ...

as a news anchor and presenter. He also co-hosted NTV's live business debate, East African Business Agenda which was broadcast in Uganda and Kenya simultaneously.

ZiFM

In 2011, he returned to Zimbabwe. The bid team that he was part of were able to win a licence for ZiFM Stereo. ZiFM happens to be the first privately owned radio station in the country. On Friday, May 10, 2013, he hosted a panel forum at The Broadband Forum 2013 which had the discussion broadcast on ZiFM the coming Thursday. In August 2016, he was moved from his previous roles of presenting Ask The MP and Enterprise to presenting The Platform, replacing Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa who presented the section on May 16. In October 2016, in his fourth year and still working at ZiFM, Mwakutuya was being headhunted by a television station in South Africa. Not long after that, it was reported in the November 3 issue of ''The Chronicle'' that along with hosts Kundayi Chiyanike and Candice Mwakalyelye, his position was terminated. All three were popular with the listeners and the unexpected terminations caught the audience by surprise. There were accusations that Tendai Madondo who had been promoted to regional stations managing director had something to do with it. Having returned to the station, he was hosting a Thursday night program on January 12, 2018, featuring George Charamba, the spokesman for Robert Mugabe.

Interviews

On March 4, 2014, he interviewed Meng Qiang, a Chinese teacher who had graduated from the Confucius Institute at the University of Zimbabwe. In 2017, Mwakutuya experienced a very tough interviewee in his interview with Dr. Lazarus Dokora. The interview took place during a talk show called Head-On on radio ZI-FM.''Manica Post'', Mar 10, 2017
NEWS, Dokora ‘kills’ Mwakutuya
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References

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