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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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Rhodesia, known initially as Zambesia, [1] ... The Rhodesia Herald. The BSAC officially adopted the name "Rhodesia" in May ...
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]
27 June – First edition of the Mashonaland Herald, later the Rhodesia Herald and later still the Zimbabwe Herald [1] 18 September – Leander Starr Jameson becomes the first Administrator of Mashonaland; 22 December – The British South Africa Company holds its first annual meeting in London.
Argus spun its Southern Rhodesia newspapers into the Rhodesian Printing and Publishing Company and went public on 8 March 1927, making Zimpapers one of the oldest listings on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. The company was renamed upon Rhodesia's independence as Zimbabwe in 1980, and the Zimbabwean government acquired majority ownership in the ...
Most of the first settlers instead called their new home Rhodesia, after Rhodes; this was common enough usage by 1891 to be used by journalists. [1] In 1892, the Rhodesia Chronicle and Rhodesia Herald newspapers were first published, respectively at Tuli and Salisbury. The company officially applied the name Rhodesia in 1895. [2] "
The Rhodesia Herald ' s defence reporter, Chris Reynolds, described the Battalion's performance in the Battle of "Hill 31" as "spectacular". [4] Many individual RLI soldiers won official recognition for their combat actions between 1972 and 1977, with 14 gaining operational commendations and 10 winning the Bronze Cross of Rhodesia. [5]