A magazine, Zimtravel covers tourism, and five years ago Zimbabwe Newspapers and New Era Newspapers of Namibia jointly launched a regional weekly, The Southern Times. Besides being the biggest newspaper publisher in the country, Zimbabwe Newspapers is the only publisher and printer operating as a public company, having been floated on March 8 1927 then as the Rhodesian Printing and Publishing Company Limited. It changed its name in 1980 when Zimbabwe became independent. The 1927 launch incidentally makes it one of the oldest listings still on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. For more than 80 years any reader has had the opportunity to buy and trade in the shares of “their newspaper”, and many have taken that opportunity, the company encouraging hundreds of smaller investors to join the big institutional investors in taking a stake in the equity. Only in the very worst of times has the dividend been deferred. Zimbabwe Newspapers has the newspaper offices in Harare, Bulawayo and Mutare and commercial printing works in Harare and Bulawayo. Gweru hosts a newspaper bureau and commercial office, while journalists are stationed in Chinhoyi, Masvingo, and Beitbridge.

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Zivira’s work as a student journalist reached a climax in March 2007 when he defied the existing political tension when he wrote an account describing the death of Gift Tandare, an opposition Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai activist who was shot by police while demonstrating in the high-density suburb of Highfield, Harare. On the day Tandare was shot, Morgan Tsvangirai and his top party officials were arrested and beaten up by police while they were on their way to the scheduled prayer meeting in Highfield. During the same week Zivira was savagely beaten up by police while covering a demonstration by a vocal civic organisation critical to the then, ZANU PF-appointed commission running the Zimbabwean capital of Harare, The Combined Harare Residents’ Association.

Zivira later joined The General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe as an information officer and there he continued to use his journalistic background to advocate for the rights of farm workers. Again, he was on the hot seat of the crucial information desk of an organisation that had to represent its farm worker membership as the controversial land reform programme continued to leave more farm workers displaced and in need of humanitarian assistance. As Information Officer Zivira was given the dangerous task of exposing the state-sponsored human rights abuses targeting farm workers. This did not endear him with some top officials in government. In June 2008, at the height of the bloody political violence ahead of a presidential election run-off pitting Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, Zivira had to go into hiding for more than two weeks to avoid attack by some ZANU PF youth militia who accused him of fingering them in the displacement of Zimbabwean farm workers. In December 2008, Zivira was arrested together with the leadership of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions after taking part in a demonstration against Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono’s quasi fiscal policies that saw the Zimbabwe dollar losing its value and affecting the working class’s wages.

In 2009 Zivira was part of the team that produced the report on the abuse of farm workers during the land reform programme. The report If something is wrong and the documentary House of Justice received international attention on the atrocities committed by the government of Robert Mugabe on the farm workers. Zivira and his boss Gertrude Hambira were forced to flee in February 2010 after the dreaded intelligence officials besieged GAPWUZ Harare offices. This was seen[by whom?] as an attempt to silence the exposure of allegations of human rights abuses on farm workers during the land reform programme. Zivira continues to work for GAPWUZ and writes human rights stories for The Zimbabwean newspaper.His stories continue to have an in-depth appeal to the lives of Zimbabwe’s forgotten: the farm workers.[citation needed]

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In May 2010, a government commission granted the paper the right to re-open.

In 1989, Geoffrey Nyarota helped to break the Willowgate scandal with the Bulawayo Chronicle. The investigation led to the resignation of five ministers of President Robert Mugabe’s government, but also resulted in Nyarota being removed from his post.

After some years in exile, Nyarota founded the Daily News, an independent daily newspaper, in 1999. The paper stated that it would be neither “pro-government” nor “anti-government”, but would “be a medium for vibrant discourse among the divergent political, social, religious and other groups of Zimbabwe”, as well as fight for press freedom and freedom of speech. Its first issue appeared on 21 March 1999.The newspaper’s motto was “Telling it like it is”.

Within a year, the newspaper had passed the circulation of the state-owned Herald, with a daily circulation of 105,000 copies; the Herald’s circulation was reported to have fallen by 50% during the same period.

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The Chronicle is one of the oldest newspapers in Africa. The Chronicle was founded by the Argus Company of South Africa on 12 October 1894.

The media in Rhodesia catered mostly to the white settlers needs, ignoring the news of interest to native Africans. Like most newspapers, the Chronicle covered politics, sports and current affairs, however news about the African continent was ignored. News about the Africans was seldom published, unless the new regarded crimes committed by Africans.When articles concerned Africans, the stories were typically negative and demeaning.

By the time Independence was attained in 1980, the media coverage in Zimbabwe had not changed much. News coverage was still prone to a settler-bias as the most prominent Rhodesian printing and publishing executives in Rhodesia themselves were white. The editors, as well as most of the reporting staff, were also white too.

The development of the Zimbabwe Press can be categorised into three eras. Prior to 1980, the era was considered the Colonial or Nationalist era. From 1980-1990 the media was in the Transitional Era. Media originating after 1990 is considered to be from the Post-Transitional era.During each era the political and ideological status of the country would reflect what kind of news would be published and how it would be published. The last white editor in Zimpapers was Jean Maitland Stuart.

In 1983 Tommy Sithole became the first black editor of the Chronicle.

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The newspaper is edited by Wilf Mbanga, founder and first Chief Executive of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, the publishers of The Daily News (closed down in 2003 under the terms of the Zimbabwe Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act).

Two weekly titles are published – The Zimbabwean (on Thursdays), and The Zimbabwean on Sunday.

The paper has been a constant thorn in the side of the Zimbabwean authorities, who hi-jacked and burnt one of our delivery trucks full of newspapers in 2008 following the abortive Presidential run-off poll. Following that, the Mugabe regime imposed a punitive duty as a tariff barrier in order to kill the newspaper. We survived this, although with a drastically reduced print run, and it was finally lifted in August 2009. The hard copy is still printed outside Zimbabwe and trucked in to exploit a loophole in the draconian AIPPA legislation ? which requires all local newspapers to register with the government Media and Information Commission.

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A magazine, Zimtravel covers tourism, and five years ago Zimbabwe Newspapers and New Era Newspapers of Namibia jointly launched a regional weekly, The Southern Times. Besides being the biggest newspaper publisher in the country, Zimbabwe Newspapers is the only publisher and printer operating as a public company, having been floated on March 8 1927 then as the Rhodesian Printing and Publishing Company Limited. It changed its name in 1980 when Zimbabwe became independent. The 1927 launch incidentally makes it one of the oldest listings still on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. For more than 80 years any reader has had the opportunity to buy and trade in the shares of “their newspaper”, and many have taken that opportunity, the company encouraging hundreds of smaller investors to join the big institutional investors in taking a stake in the equity. Only in the very worst of times has the dividend been deferred. Zimbabwe Newspapers has the newspaper offices in Harare, Bulawayo and Mutare and commercial printing works in Harare and Bulawayo. Gweru hosts a newspaper bureau and commercial office, while journalists are stationed in Chinhoyi, Masvingo, and Beitbridge.

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