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The Herald faces limited competition from within Zimbabwe, mainly from independent newspapers, such as The Independent, due to very restrictive accreditation laws. [14] [15] Many opposition media claim that the paper has evolved into an instrument of rather crude and aggressive propaganda. [16] The editorial staff are open in their partisanship ...
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 ]
By the 1990s, The Herald and The Sunday Mail consistently supported President Mugabe, though they would occasionally criticize his cabinet ministers. [8] On 14 December 2000, the board of the Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust was disbanded, allowing the Zimbabwean government to exercise a more direct role in Zimpapers operations.
When articles concerned Africans, the stories were typically negative and demeaning. [1] By the time Independence was attained in 1980, the media coverage in Zimbabwe had changed little. News coverage was still prone to a settler-bias as the most prominent Rhodesian printing and publishing executives in Rhodesia themselves were white.
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.
Six years after his Alzheimer’s diagnosis, 90-year-old Zelik Bocknek (Zel) refuses to slow down — and he believes his active lifestyle is key to keeping his symptoms at bay.
Zimbabwe is host to some of the oldest newspapers in Africa; The Herald, Zimbabwe's major newspaper, replaced the Mashonaland and Zambesian Times, which was present from the late 1890s. The Herald, once an influential paper, has seen a decline in readership from 132,000 to between 50,000 and 100,000 in recent years. [25]
A cholera outbreak started in Buhera District, Manicaland, Zimbabwe. The outbreak is thought to have started on 12 February 2023. The outbreak is thought to have started on 12 February 2023. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As of now it has a geographic coverage of 45 out of 62 districts.