Zimpapers

Zimpapers publishes over a dozen Newspapers and Magazines, including the two leading Daily newspapers in Zimbabwe, The Herald in Harare and The Chronicle in Bulawayo. Other publications include Zimbabwe's leading tabloid, H-Metro https://www.hmetro.co.zw/, the Manicaland regional newspaper, The Manica Post, two Sunday supplements, The Sunday Mail and The Sunday News, and two newspapers in Zimbabwe's main indigenous languages, the Shona-language Kwayedza and the Ndebele-language uMthunywa. In addition to its newspapers, Zimpapers also publishes two magazines, Bridal Magazine, which focuses on Weddings, and Zimtravel, which covers tourism. The Southern Times, a regional newspaper in Southern Africa, is published as a joint venture between Zimpapers and New Era Newspapers of Namibia. Zimpapers is headquartered at Herald House in Harare and maintains offices in Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, and Gweru, with bureaux located across Zimbabwe. Zimpapers publications are printed in Harare and Bulawayo. == History ==

Origins and Rhodesia years, 1891–1980 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. Argus gave up a majority of shares, but still held a controlling shareholding. The trust continued buying smaller amounts of shares and eventually acquired a 51-percent majority shareholding in 1986. told a meeting of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, "We created the MMT so that the media would be in neutral hands and not business tycoons or the government—that would quash the free voice of journalists. After the Zimbabwean government opened the radio and television markets to private actors, Zimpapers applied for one of the first commercial radio licenses. The decision to dissolve the board occurred after a reported meeting between its chairman, Honour Mkushi, and information minister Jonathan Moyo. President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a six-member board, with Mkushi as chair, with effect from 10 February 2020. == Publications ==

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In 2011, Zimpapers expanded its portfolio beyond newspaper publications with the launch of the Harare-based Star FM, Zimbabwe's first commercial radio station. == See also ==