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Lloyd Coutts
Lloyd Coutts has an extensive background in journalism and media spanning 36 years. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism and Media Studies (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand and has worked as a reporter, sub-editor, news editor, assistant editor and acting editor for publications such as Business Day, The Star, Business Report and Sunday World. Lloyd also has experience in wire services, notably the German Press Agency (dpa), and radio (Network Radio News and Classic FM). He also worked in television news at eNCA.
Gukurahundi’s grim exhumation process
In January 1983, Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF quashed what it called dissidence by supporters of its political rival, the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU). In an operation known by a Shona term Gukurahundi (the spring rain that washes away the chaff), the...
Remembering Gukurahundi’s missing
In January 1983, Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF quashed what it called dissidence by supporters of its political rvial, the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU). In an operation known by a Shona term 'Gukurahundi' (the spring rain that washes away the chaff), the...
Reliving the horror of Gukurahundi
The Matabeleland Massacre has been the worst blot on an atrocious human rights record in Zimbabwe In January 1983, Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF quashed what it called dissidence by supporters of its political rival, the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU). In an...
Democratic space narrowing in Zimbabwe
Good Governance Africa Executive Director interviewed on South African satellite channel Newzroom Afrika on the situation in Zimbabwe (13 August 2020) GGA SADC Executive Director Chris Maroleng says there is no doubt that the situation in ZImbabwe has taken a terrible...
Editor’s Note: News media is a crucial but often undervalued pillar of democracy
Where an independent media thrives, democracy thrives. Once democracy has taken root a free media serves to entrench it, holding the powerful to account and protecting the rights of the defenceless. Access to a free media is literally a human right, as defined by...
Editor’s Note: Time to silence the guns, once and for all
Africa has lost much to conflict since the end of the Cold War. The result has been broken economies, the destruction of infrastructure, untold deaths and millions of displaced citizens. The social toll has included poverty and the destruction of education and health...
Editor’s Note: Africa’s complex realities
To understand the present, one needs to understand the past. Surely this aphorism is true across cultural and other divides? As this edition on African history started taking shape, the question arose: Do those of us who seek a prosperous future for the continent have...
VIDEO: GGA Executive Director on South Africa’s political transition
Good Governance Africa Executive Director Alain Tschudin discussing the transfer of power from Jacob Zuma to Cyril Ramaphosa with eNCA anchor Cathy Mohlahlana on February 15, 2018.
Lloyd Coutts
Lloyd Coutts has an extensive background in journalism and media spanning 36 years. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism and Media Studies (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand and has worked as a reporter, sub-editor, news editor, assistant editor and acting editor for publications such as Business Day, The Star, Business Report and Sunday World. Lloyd also has experience in wire services, notably the German Press Agency (dpa), and radio (Network Radio News and Classic FM). He also worked in television news at eNCA.
Africa in Fact 57: Liberation Movements
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Gukurahundi’s grim exhumation process
In January 1983, Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF quashed what it called dissidence by supporters of its political rival, the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU). In an operation known by a Shona term Gukurahundi (the spring rain that washes away the chaff), the...
Remembering Gukurahundi’s missing
In January 1983, Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF quashed what it called dissidence by supporters of its political rvial, the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU). In an operation known by a Shona term 'Gukurahundi' (the spring rain that washes away the chaff), the...
Reliving the horror of Gukurahundi
The Matabeleland Massacre has been the worst blot on an atrocious human rights record in Zimbabwe In January 1983, Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF quashed what it called dissidence by supporters of its political rival, the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU). In an...
Democratic space narrowing in Zimbabwe
Good Governance Africa Executive Director interviewed on South African satellite channel Newzroom Afrika on the situation in Zimbabwe (13 August 2020) GGA SADC Executive Director Chris Maroleng says there is no doubt that the situation in ZImbabwe has taken a terrible...
Editor’s Note: News media is a crucial but often undervalued pillar of democracy
Where an independent media thrives, democracy thrives. Once democracy has taken root a free media serves to entrench it, holding the powerful to account and protecting the rights of the defenceless. Access to a free media is literally a human right, as defined by...
Editor’s Note: Time to silence the guns, once and for all
Africa has lost much to conflict since the end of the Cold War. The result has been broken economies, the destruction of infrastructure, untold deaths and millions of displaced citizens. The social toll has included poverty and the destruction of education and health...
Editor’s Note: Africa’s complex realities
To understand the present, one needs to understand the past. Surely this aphorism is true across cultural and other divides? As this edition on African history started taking shape, the question arose: Do those of us who seek a prosperous future for the continent have...
VIDEO: GGA Executive Director on South Africa’s political transition
Good Governance Africa Executive Director Alain Tschudin discussing the transfer of power from Jacob Zuma to Cyril Ramaphosa with eNCA anchor Cathy Mohlahlana on February 15, 2018.