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The newspaper's origins date back to the 19th century. Its forerunner was launched on 27 June 1891 by William Fairbridge [1] 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.
Zimpapers traces its origins to 1891, when William Fairbridge, the Rhodesia representative of South Africa's Argus Printing and Publishing Company, established the Mashonaland Herald and Zambesian Times in Salisbury (now Harare). The Mashonaland Herald was succeeded by The Rhodesia Herald in 1892. The British South Africa Company Government ...
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 has seen a decline in readership from 132,000 to between 50,000 and 100,000 in recent years. [1]
Operation Murambatsvina ( Move the Rubbish ), also officially known as Operation Restore Order, was a large-scale Zimbabwean government campaign to forcibly clear slum areas across the country. The campaign started in 2005 and, according to United Nations estimates, affected at least 700,000 people directly through loss of their homes or ...
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]
Geoffrey Nyarota (born c. 1951) [1] 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 ...
The Herald (South Africa) The Herald, Harare, Zimbabwe; Daily Herald ... a predecessor newspaper to The Mercury News, San Jose, California, ...
Medium. Dialling code 242 (or 0242 from within Zimbabwe) Harare ( / həˈrɑːreɪ / hə-RAR-ay ), [ 5] is the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 982.3 km 2 (379.3 sq mi), a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 census [ 6] and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metropolitan province. [ 6]