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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 ...
[4] [5] The Mashonaland Herald was succeeded by The Rhodesia Herald in 1892. [4] The British South Africa Company Government Gazette was published between 1894 and 1923, initially as a supplement to The Herald. [4] In 1893, the company established The Umtali Post in Umtali (now Mutare), followed in 1894 by The Bulawayo Chronicle in Bulawayo. [4]
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]
University of Rhodesia students Parade?–2003 Contemporary affairs Monthly The Police Review (later Outpost) 1911–1970s BSAP affairs British South Africa Police: Monthly [15] [13] Prize: Contemporary affairs Radio Post: Monthly Rafters: 1941–55 Rhodesian Air Force: Monthly [12] [16] Rhodesia Calls: Tourism Rhodesia National Tourist Board ...
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]
24 June - Rhodesia beat Western Transvaal 41-9 in a Currie Cup match played at Hartsfield Rugby Ground, Bulawayo. 28 June - Three Zimbabwe African People's Union fighters kill two German missionaries.
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 ...