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| Private daily hits Zimbabwe newsstands |
| 2010-06-05 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] The first private daily paper to be published in Zimbabwe in seven years has hit the newsstands. Last week, four private daily newspapers were issued licenses by a media commission appointed by the government earlier this year, and the first issue of one of the dailies, NewsDay, was published on Friday, Reuters reported. NewsDay is owned by the newspaper group Alpha Media Holdings, headed by Trevor Ncube, who is also the publisher of two weeklies in Zimbabwe and the Mail and Guardian in South Africa. The last private daily newspaper published in Zimbabwe was banned by President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party in 2003. Over the past few years, Zimbabwe's only national daily paper has been the state-run The Herald. There is also a regional daily, The Chronicle, published in the city of Bulawayo. There are no private radio or television stations in Zimbabwe, and foreign media outlets are not allowed to base correspondents in the country. Ncube said in the opening statement of NewsDay that the newspaper's birth "represents the hope of a tortured nation" and would provide leadership as the country normalizes. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I doubt it will be open long enough for folks to subscribe. |
| Posted by: Spot 2010-06-05 12:19 |
| #2 And five wheelbarrows the next week |
| Posted by: Knuckles Thromonter1743 2010-06-05 12:14 |
| #1 It only costs 1 wheelbarrow full of Bob bucks for a weekly subscription. |
| Posted by: NCMike 2010-06-05 05:54 |