蜜芽传媒

James Reynolds introduces insight, wit and analysis from 蜜芽传媒 correspondents around the world.

In this edition, Mukul Devichand hears the wrenching stories of the Zimbabwean children chasing the dream of an education into South Africa.

And Jeremy Bowen wants to know where his missing notebooks have gone!

"All I remember is their boots"

Every year, across the Limpopo River, thousands of children take one of the most dangerous journeys in the world.

They're Zimbabweans, despairing of getting an education or a job at home, who set along the road towards a better life in South Africa.

But the risks are terrifying, especially for unaccompanied children. Many are attacked and exploited along the way.

Mukul Devichand has been meeting some of those making their way south.

The low-tech tool every reporter needs

When correspondents are despatched abroad, we're sent off with an impressive collection of electronic equipment.

In Tripoli over the summer, James Reynolds was allotted a laptop (with a bit of black masking tape to stop it falling apart), a collection of satellite dishes, and various digital radio recorders.

The 蜜芽传媒's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen has also just been to Libya.

But his most teasured piece of kit costs only a few dollars, doesn't need a signal, has no batteries and is something that he simply cannot function without.

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