Zimbabwe ILO Informal Employment USAGM
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- Zimbabwe ILO Informal Employment USAGM
- May 24, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: ZIMBABWE ILO INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT (TV) HEADLINE: UN Labor Agency Starts Creating Jobs in Zimbabwe's Industrial Hub TEASER: PUBLISHED AT: 05/24/2022 at 2:10 pm BYLINE: Columbus Mavhunga CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE VIDEOGRAPHER: Blessing Chigwenhembe VIDEO EDITOR: PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: MPage, MAS VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA Original PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB _ TV _X RADIO X TRT: 2:13 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES:)) ((INTRO)) The U.N.'s International Labor Organization has started reviving abandoned buildings in Zimbabwe, a move informal traders say is helping them earn a living. Columbus Mavhunga reports from Zimbabwe's second biggest city Bulawayo, where the labor agency says southern Africa must start reviving informal trading. ((NARRATOR)) Tinago Moyo is one of the thousands of Zimbabweans the UN International Labor Organization says it is helping by setting up safe workplaces. He lost his job at a diamond company about 10 years ago. To make ends meet, he set up a workplace in the open here in Zimbabwe's industrial hub of Bulawayo, an area the labor agency has worked to revive. ((Tinago Moyo, Zimbabwe Informal Trader)) ((17 seconds)) “It’s actually better here because the place is closed. Unlike where we were before. It was an open space. We could not work when it’s raining, even the heat conditions there ...it could be difficult. But here, it’s quite comfortable.” ((NARRATOR)) The ILO says it is targeting youths and about 100 entrepreneurs working in the informal sector. ((Fortune Sithole, International Labor Organization Zimbabwe)) ((English: 18 seconds)) “What we want to do especially in the informal economy is the formalization of the informal economy. When we talk about the formalization of the informal economy, it comes with different facets. Number three is the improvement of workspaces, for example this one you have just seen here at Bulawayo SME Center where we want to address decent deficits.” ((NARRATOR)) Depending on who is speaking, unemployment figures vary from 30 percent to 95 percent. Zimbabwe authorities say the program will boost the country’s economy by bringing in more people who pay taxes. ((Dictor Khumalo - Bulawayo City Council)) ((English: 22 seconds)) “The engagement that we are doing as a city with the informal sector is for them to appreciate the need for registration so that they are counted in the GDP of the country, overall.” ((NARRATOR)) With many informal workers not paying taxes, by setting up formal structures, advocates say more people can contribute to the nation’s economy and have a safer place to work and earn a living for themselves. ((Columbus Mavhunga, for VOA News, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: ZIMBABWE ILO INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT (TV) HEADLINE: UN Labor Agency Starts Creating Jobs in Zimbabwe's Industrial Hub TEASER: PUBLISHED AT: 05/24/2022 at 2:10 pm BYLINE: Columbus Mavhunga CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE VIDEOGRAPHER: Blessing Chigwenhembe VIDEO EDITOR: PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: MPage, MAS VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA Original PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB _ TV _X RADIO X TRT: 2:13 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES:)) ((INTRO)) The U.N.'s International Labor Organization has started reviving abandoned buildings in Zimbabwe, a move informal traders say is helping them earn a living. Columbus Mavhunga reports from Zimbabwe's second biggest city Bulawayo, where the labor agency says southern Africa must start reviving informal trading. ((NARRATOR)) Tinago Moyo is one of the thousands of Zimbabweans the UN International Labor Organization says it is helping by setting up safe workplaces. He lost his job at a diamond company about 10 years ago. To make ends meet, he set up a workplace in the open here in Zimbabwe's industrial hub of Bulawayo, an area the labor agency has worked to revive. ((Tinago Moyo, Zimbabwe Informal Trader)) ((17 seconds)) “It’s actually better here because the place is closed. Unlike where we were before. It was an open space. We could not work when it’s raining, even the heat conditions there ...it could be difficult. But here, it’s quite comfortable.” ((NARRATOR)) The ILO says it is targeting youths and about 100 entrepreneurs working in the informal sector. ((Fortune Sithole, International Labor Organization Zimbabwe)) ((English: 18 seconds)) “What we want to do especially in the informal economy is the formalization of the informal economy. When we talk about the formalization of the informal economy, it comes with different facets. Number three is the improvement of workspaces, for example this one you have just seen here at Bulawayo SME Center where we want to address decent deficits.” ((NARRATOR)) Depending on who is speaking, unemployment figures vary from 30 percent to 95 percent. Zimbabwe authorities say the program will boost the country’s economy by bringing in more people who pay taxes. ((Dictor Khumalo - Bulawayo City Council)) ((English: 22 seconds)) “The engagement that we are doing as a city with the informal sector is for them to appreciate the need for registration so that they are counted in the GDP of the country, overall.” ((NARRATOR)) With many informal workers not paying taxes, by setting up formal structures, advocates say more people can contribute to the nation’s economy and have a safer place to work and earn a living for themselves. ((Columbus Mavhunga, for VOA News, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date May 24, 2022 14:10 EDT
- Byline Columbus Mavhunga
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America