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In October the following year it became a printed newspaper and changed its name to The Rhodesia Herald. [2] The Argus group later set up a subsidiary called the Rhodesian Printing and Publishing Company [3] to run its newspapers in what was then Southern Rhodesia. The front page of the Rhodesia Herald ' s 12 November 1965 edition. Note the ...
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 ]
Although the Mashonaland Herald was inevitably of variable quality, its success demonstrated the demand for a Rhodesian newspaper. Fairbridge re-launched the Mashonaland Herald as the Rhodesia Herald in 1892. This was a printed newspaper, and he followed this by founding the Bulawayo Chronicle in 1894. [7]
The official name of the country, according to the constitution adopted concurrently with the UDI in November 1965, was Rhodesia. This was not the case under British law, however, which considered the territory's legal name to be Southern Rhodesia, the name given to the country in 1898 during the British South Africa Company's administration of the Rhodesias, and retained by the self-governing ...
Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited, operating as Zimpapers, is a state-controlled Zimbabwean mass media company. [1] Originally a newspaper Publishing company, in the 2010s it expanded its operations to include commercial printing, radio and television.
Wilson at different times edited the magazine NADA, the Sunday Mail [15] and The New Rhodesia (which he also founded). [16] [17] He was the author of several pamphlets and in addition to writing articles for various publications including the Rhodesia Herald, he was a correspondent for The Manchester Guardian. [18] [19] [20] [21]
Rhodesia Television (RTV) was a live-broadcast, television station operating in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as a private company. It was established on the 14th of November, 1960, first in Salisbury (now Harare ), with transmissions in Bulawayo beginning seven months later.
Smith announced his policies to the nation through full-page advertisements in the newspapers: "No forced integration. No lowering of standards. No abdication of responsible government. No repeal of the Land Apportionment Act. No appeasement to suit the Afro-Asian bloc." [108] "An honest Rhodesian," a 1964 political poster declared—"Trust Mr ...