Famous South African television personalities Sonia Mbele, Sello Maak Ka-Ncube, and Pearl Thusi are now in Zimbabwe at the government’s invitation as part of a PR campaign.
Journalists from a few SADC nations, including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, and Tanzania, are there along with the television stars.
The journalists are travelling as part of a government-sponsored advertising campaign called “The True Zimbabwe Tour,” which also features South African celebrities including TV personality Pearl Thusi, actress Sonia Mbele, and veteran actor Sello Maake Ka-Ncube.
Zimbabwe’s Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Publicity, Nick Mangwana, revealed that this assembly of journalists and TV personalities has been brought to the country through collaborative efforts between his ministry and the Media Company MPC.
The True Zimbabwe Tour starts in Victoria Falls, a regional tourist Mecca, and ends in the capital, Harare on 12 August – just over 10 days before the elections.
Taking to Twitter, Mangwana said the group is in Zimbabwe to experience Zimbabwean hospitality and to witness firsthand the work done by President Emmerson Mnanaggwa’s administration since winning the elections in 2018.
The group visited successful farming projects, the African Chrome Fields mining operations, the new wing of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport and others.
“A group of African Journalists and Media Personalities from the region arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday for what has been dubbed “THE TRUE ZIMBABWE TOUR”. They have been brought in by @InfoMinZW working together with the Media Company MPC. They are from Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini, Tanzania and South Africa. They are here to experience the hospitality of our people and to see for themselves the great work done by the Second Republic in the last five years.
The True Zimbabwe Tour started in Victoria Falls on August 2023 and will end in Harare on 12 August 2023 and includes visits to successful farming projects, the African Chrome Fields mining operations, the new wing of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport and others.
They are traveling with three big South African celebrities Pearl Thusi, Sonia Mbele and veteran actor Sello Maake Ka-Ncube,” Mangwana enthusiastically tweeted on Tuesday evening.
