About Zimpapers

ZIMBABWE Newspapers (1980) Ltd is the oldest newspaper publisher and commercial printer in Zimbabwe, having been in the industry since 1891. It publishes more than 10 newspaper titles and runs a broadcasting division.

The company owns Zimbabwe’s leading daily newspapers, The Herald, The Chronicle and H-Metro. It owns two Sunday newspapers The Sunday Mail and The Sunday News and economic as well as financial and economic e-paper Business Weekly.

It publishes the largest provincial newspaper in Zimbabwe, The Manica Post in Mutare.

Zimpapers launched two newspapers published in the country’s two main indigenous languages, Shona and Ndebele. Kwayedza, the Shona weekly is published in Harare while Umthunywa, the Ndebele weekly is published in Bulawayo.

In 2012 Zimpapers, launched the country’s first commercial radio station, Star FM. Zimpapers added to its broadcasting portfolio with the launch of Diamond FM radio station in Mutare in 2016, Capitalk in Harare and Nyami Nyami FM in Kariba.

Further expansion into broadcasting resulted in the introduction of the Zimpapers Television Network.

The group has responded to emerging digital technologies and migration by creating innovative digital products that have increased its audience reach and enhanced the visibility of advertorial content.

Besides being the biggest newspaper publisher in the country, Zimpapers 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 gained its Independence.

The 1927 launch incidentally makes it one of the oldest listings on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.

Zimpapers has newspaper offices in Harare, Bulawayo and Mutare and commercial printing works in Harare and Bulawayo. Gweru hosts a newspaper bureau and a commercial office, while journalists are stationed in bureaus across the country.

The group also has a strong presence on digital publishing platforms.