Dec 10, 2016
Xoliswa Sithole Accepting the 2010 Peabody Award for Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children
Zimbabwe is a nation with shining, modern cities and breathtaking natural beauty, but also one with hideous poverty and squalor. Its repressive government is happy to show off the former, just not the latter. Indeed, anyone who attempts to film the decrepit shanty towns or children mining garbage dumps for re-sellable bottles or junk risks arrest and imprisonment. Producer Xoliswa Sithole and her director/cameraman, Jezza Neumann, took the risk, conning their way into Sithole’s homeland on the pretense of making a film about her childhood.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/zimbabwes-forgotten-children
