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The Herald has seen a decline in readership from 132,000 to between 50,000 and 100,000 in recent years. [1] The influential Daily News , which regularly published criticism of the government, was shut down in 2002, however its director Wilf Mbanga started The Zimbabwean soon after to continue challenging the Mugabe regime. [ 1 ]
The newspaper's origins date back to the 19th century. Its forerunner was launched on 27 June 1891 by William Fairbridge [1] for the Argus group of South Africa. Named the Mashonaland Herald and Zambesian Times, it was a weekly, hand-written news sheet produced using the cyclostyle duplicating process.
Zimpapers traces its origins to 1891, when William Fairbridge, the Rhodesia representative of South Africa's Argus Printing and Publishing Company, established the Mashonaland Herald and Zambesian Times in Salisbury (now Harare). [4] [5] The Mashonaland Herald was succeeded by The Rhodesia Herald in 1892. [4] The British South Africa Company ...
Paris gets a taste of Zimbabwe art – The Herald : 7 June 2011; Gallery takes art to the people – The Herald : 5 June 2011; Five Zim artists take Paris by storm – The Zimbabwean : 26 May 2011; Visual artists exhibit in Paris – Newsday : 24 May 2011; First Floor Gallery making crucial steps – The Herald : 3 April 2011
"When he walked the streets of Harare, Africans would almost queue up to grasp his hand and wish him well." [291] "If you were to go to Harare [in 2007] and ask ordinary black Zimbabweans who they would rather have as their leader—Smith or Mugabe—the answer would be almost unanimous", Boynton asserted; "And it would not be Mugabe." [301]
The Daily News is a Zimbabwean independent newspaper published in Harare. It was founded in 1999 by Geoffrey Nyarota, a former editor of the Bulawayo Chronicle. Bearing the motto "Telling it like it is", the Daily News swiftly became Zimbabwe's most popular newspaper. However, the paper also suffered two bombings, allegedly by Zimbabwean ...
The state-controlled newspaper The Herald reported on Robert Mugabe's support for Operation Murambastvina, and on his view that the economy was beginning to receive serious and significant investments from the Far East: [citation needed] We should not look back, for, looking back, means back to our political enemies and detractors.
Harare railway station, in Zimbabwe's capital city. Harare was called Salisbury until 1982. Place names in Zimbabwe, including the name of the country itself, have been altered at various points in history. The name Zimbabwe was officially adopted concurrently with Britain's grant of independence in April 1980.