Broadcasting career For many years, Moyo was one of very few women broadcasters, black or white, in colonial Zimbabwe. In 1968, she was the first woman to read the news on the
Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation (RBC) African Service. On 4 October 1982, Moyo was appointed to spearhead the establishment of
ZBC's Radio 4 dedicated to education and rural development. In more than 50 years in radio, she is credited with pioneering participatory techniques of broadcasting and development through women's programmes such as RHC. She studied radio production at Radio Netherlands Training Center, and in the late 1980s produced the radio drama
Changes, scripted by
Ama Ata Aidoo, came third in a competition organised by the
Union of Radio and Television Organizations in Africa (URTNA), she recognised the power of radio as a means of communication and imparting knowledge among rural communities in Africa and especially for the women, who are often the ones running the farms and working in the rural area when men migrate to cities to find paid jobs. "I realized that [radio] was a powerful tool of communication. As a teacher, I was imparting knowledge to about forty to four hundred people in the class but with radio I could teach the whole country."
Work and achievements Moyo has been instrumental in the formation of the Federation of African Media Women, beginning with a consultative meeting of media women in
Lusaka,
Zambia, in 1977, with participants from, among other countries,
Kenya,
Tanzania,
Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe Media women launched their own national federation (FAMWZ), when in 1985, they went to the International Women's Conference in
Nairobi, Kenya, with a draft of their own constitution at hand. Moyo says since then, FAMWZ's focus has been the development of media women and other women in the urban and rural areas of the country. The increased local and regional activities and networking among African media women led to
FAMW-SADC being formed in 1992. This relationship between women across the urban-rural divides developed into an early participatory radio in Africa on an unprecedented scale. It is thanks to the leadership of Moyo, and her persistence and that of her colleagues at ZBC Radio 4, carried further by FAMWZ members through outreach training, as much as the eagerness of the rural women groups themselves, that radio listening clubs could be established all over the country. Support from
UNESCO and the
Friedrich Ebert Foundation helped to run and maintain the project, which had the backing of the Ministries of Information, Post and Telecommunications, and Community- and Cooperative Development and Women's Affairs. A 2009 report by the
Open Society Initiative,
Public Broadcasting in Africa, makes mention of the project under the leadership of FAMWZ as Radio Zimbabwe's best known broadcasting initiative: "The project created radio listening clubs involving rural women who would gather to listen to programs by and about themselves. It was hoped that opinion leaders would emerge from the radio listening clubs who would then relay this development information to others." After leaving the
Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, Moyo worked in support of DTR projects across the Southern African region, such as in South Africa's
Kwa-Zulu Natal,
Mozambique,
Malawi,
Namibia and
Angola. ==Personal life==