About Zimpapers
ZNewspapers (1980) Ltd is the oldest newspaper publisher and commercial printing company in Zimbabwe. It is also the largest publisher of newspapers in the country, having been in the industry since 1891.
Zimpapers publishes 13 newspaper titles and also runs a Broadcasting Division as well as a television network ( ZTN).
The company is the proprietor of Zimbabwe’s leading daily newspapers, The Herald, The Chronicle and H-Metro.
It owns two Sunday newspapers, The Sunday Mail and The Sunday News, the largest provincial newspaper in Zimbabwe, The Manica Post, a weekly, that anchors the Mutare unit.
In recent decades; Zimpapers launched two newspapers in the country’s two main indigenous languages, Shona and Ndebele. Kwayedza, the Shona weekly is published in Harare while Umthunywa, the Ndebele weekly paper is published in Bulawayo. Business Weekly is also under the Zimpapers stable. Pikirayi Deketeke is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Zimpapers. He was appointed as CEO in June 2015, and 12 months into the post, turned the company from a loss-making to a profit-making entity.
He has been with the Zimpapers group since 1987 when he joined The Sunday Mail as a junior reporter. He rose through the ranks to become Editor of The Herald in March 2001 to 2008. In 2009 he was appointed Group Editor in Chief until 2011.
Between 2011 and 2014 Mr Deketeke served as the group’s Chief Operating Officer.
In 2012 Zimpapers launched the country’s first commercial radio station, Star FM. Zimpapers added to its broadcasting portfolio with the launch of Diamond radio station in Mutare
FM in 2016 and Capitalk in 2017.
FM
Nyaminyami is also part of the stable. It brought together
FM the finest presenters and disc jockeys to start up and develop a fast-growing and multi-faceted radio brand. Further expansion into broadcasting resulted in the introduction of the Zimpapers Television Network in 2022.
The 1927 launch incidentally makes it one of the oldest listings on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.