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Rhodesia Herald
''The Herald'' is a state-owned daily newspaper published in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. History Origins The newspaper's origins date back to the 19th century. Its forerunner was launched on 27 June 1891 by William Fairbridge 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. In October the following year it became a printed newspaper and changed its name to ''The Rhodesia Herald''. The Argus group later set up a subsidiary called the Rhodesian Printing and Publishing Company to run its newspapers in what was then Southern Rhodesia. After the white minority Rhodesian Front government unilaterally declared independence on 11 November 1965, it started censoring ''The Rhodesia Herald''. The newspaper responded by leaving blank spaces where articles had been removed, enabling readers to gauge the extent of the censorship. Post Independence I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulawayo
Bulawayo (, ; Ndebele: ''Bulawayo'') is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and the largest city in the country's Matabeleland region. The city's population is disputed; the 2022 census listed it at 665,940, while the Bulawayo City Council claimed it to be about 1.2 million. Bulawayo covers an area of about in the western part of the country, along the Matsheumhlope River. Along with the capital Harare, Bulawayo is one of two cities in Zimbabwe that is also a province. Bulawayo was founded by a group led by Gundwane Ndiweni around 1840 as the kraal of Mzilikazi, the Ndebele king and was known as Gibixhegu. His son, Lobengula, succeeded him in the 1860s, and changed the name to kobulawayo and ruled from Bulawayo until 1893, when the settlement was captured by British South Africa Company soldiers during the First Matabele War. That year, the first white settlers arrived and rebuilt the town. The town was besieged by Ndebele warriors during the Second Matabele War. Bulaway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British South Africa Company Government Gazette
The ''British South Africa Company Government Gazette'' was the government gazette of the British South Africa Company. The ''Gazette'' was published in Salisbury between 1894 and 1923. Until 30 June 1899, it was issued as a supplement to the '' Rhodesia Herald''. ''Trove'', , 20 May 2014. Publication ceased in 1923 when the British government did not renew the Company's charter, and the territories previously administered became the self-governing colony of |
Angus Shaw (writer)
Angus Shaw (born February 1949 in Salisbury, now Harare) is a Zimbabwean journalist, and novelist. Life Born in 1949, Shaw was orphaned in 1958, and sent to England for school. He joined the '' Rhodesia Herald'' in 1972. In 1975, he was conscripted into the Rhodesian Security Forces, but deserted to report on nationalist exiles in Lusaka and Dar es Salaam. He worked for the state-controlled ''Sunday Mail'' newspaper. He reported on Idi Amin's Ugandan death camps, and Somalia. In February 2005, he was jailed for reporting on Robert Mugabe during the decline of Zimbabwe. He reports for the Associated Press The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. new .... Works * * References External links"Angus Shaw", ''Zimbabwe Journalists [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Saidi
William Sylvester Saidi (8 May 1937 – 4 January 2017) was a Zimbabwean writer and journalist. Among his friends and family he was commonly known as 'Bill' Saidi. He died in Kitwe, Zambia after a long illness. Early life Saidi was born at St David's Mission in Chihota Tribal Trust Lands, south of Harare. He grew up in the township of Mbare, where he attended school, and developed a passion for jazz and journalism. He was the only son of Evelyn Chidzetse of Makawe village in Seke district, and an immigrant father Agonilepi Matola Saidi from Malawi. He married twice, and divorced twice but each marriage produced three children. Saidi was survived by his six children, and 15 grandchildren. Career He began his journalism career in 1957 when he was 20 years old when he joined the ''African Daily News''. Eventually, he practiced his journalism in the twin countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe, where he is regarded in equal esteem for his contributions. Saidi moved to Zambia when it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chipo Sabeta
Chipo Sabeta is a media personality, sports journalist and sports administrator. In 2020, she was Awarded FIFA/CIES sports management network project winner (Worldwide). She is the first Zimbabwean female journalists to be included in the FIFA Ballon d'Or voting panel since 2014. Career Chipo was born in Nyanga, Zimbabwe, but grew up in Glen Norah suburb in Harare, where she had her early education before proceeding to Nhowe Mission School in Macheke. Chipo Sabeta was of the founding journalists for Zimbabwe’s first tabloid, ''The H Metro'' in 2009, she grew up the ranks within the organisation then became Senior Sports Reporter for ZIMPAPERS which houses ''H-Metro'', '' The Herald'', ''ZTN'', ''The Chronicle'', Star FM Zimbabwe and ''Business Weekly'' from 2010 to 2019. In 2022 she was formally awarded the FIFA/CIES award which she won through Nelson Mandela University at FIFA headquarters by Arsène Wenger Arsène Charles Ernest Wenger (; born 22 October 1949) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Nyarota
Geoffrey Nyarota (born c. 1951) is a Zimbabwean journalist and human rights activist. Born in colonial Southern Rhodesia, he trained as a teacher before beginning his career with a Zimbabwean state-owned newspaper, '' The Herald''. As editor of the state-owned '' Bulawayo Chronicle'' in 1989, he helped to break the "Willowgate" scandal, which resulted in several resignations from the cabinet of President Robert Mugabe. When Nyarota was subsequently removed from his post, he spent several years teaching in exile before returning to open the independent '' Daily News''. 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 security forces. Nyarota was arrested six times and reportedly was the target of a government assassination plot. After being forced from the paper by new management in December 2002, Nyarota left Zimbabwe. In exile in the United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davison Maruziva
Davison Maruziva is a Zimbabwean journalist and editor. Along with Geoffrey Nyarota, he broke the 1989 "Willowgate" scandal that resulted in the resignation of five government ministers, but was forced from his job with the state-owned '' Bulawayo Chronicle'' as a result. He later was an editor at Nyarota's '' Daily News'', but resigned after Nyarota was forced out in December 2002. He then became an editor at the ''Independent Standard'', and attracted international attention for his 2008 arrest for publishing an editorial by an opposition leader. Background Maruziva has a degree in journalism from a British university. "Willowgate" scandal In 1989, he worked at the state-owned '' Bulawayo Chronicle'' under Geoffrey Nyarota. The paper built a reputation for aggressive investigations into corruption at all levels of government, and Nyarota became "something of a hero". In the "Willowgate" investigation, Maruziva and Nyarota reported that ministers and officials from the gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Independent (Zimbabwe)
''Zimbabwe Independent'' is a private weekly newspaper published from Harare, Zimbabwe, by Alpha Media Holdings. The company also publishes '' The Standard'' and ''NewsDay''. See also * The Standard * NewsDay ''Newsday'' is an American daily newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. The slogan of the newspaper is "Newsday, Your Eye on LI", and fo ... References External links * Mass media in Zimbabwe Newspapers published in Zimbabwe Mass media in Harare {{Zimbabwe-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movement For Democratic Change – Tsvangirai
The Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T) is a centre-left political party and was the main opposition party in the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe ahead of the 2018 elections. After the split of the original Movement for Democratic Change in 2005, the MDC–T remained the major opposition faction, while a smaller faction, the Movement for Democratic Change – Ncube, or MDC–N, was led by Welshman Ncube. History Foundation The Movement for Democratic Change was founded in 1999 as an opposition party to the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party led by President Robert Mugabe. The MDC was formed from members of the broad coalition of civic society groups and individuals that campaigned for a "No" vote in the 2000 constitutional referendum, in particular the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. The party split following the 2005 Senate election, with the main faction headed by the founder leader Morgan Tsvangirai and the ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
