Another newspaper hits Zimbabwe’s streets
1 April 2011
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Harare(ZimEye)One of Zimbabwe’s much awaited daily newspaper which was licensed last year has hit the streets with a demo paper being distributed for free around the capital on Thursday.
The paper, The daily Mail which will be a daily paper as the name suggests is at a cost of US$1 on the streets a price most of the papers are selling their newspapers.

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A reader peruses The Mail paper for the first time

Though today’s version was supposed to be a free one, the vendors ended up selling at the designated price due to the demand of the paper by readers. Insiders from the stable said the paper which also have a weekend edition was scheduled to hit the streets permanently sometime in
April.
“It is not yet confirmed but we are being told that the paper would be out by the end of this April as they are still sorting out some logistical issues,” said the source. Efforts to get a comment from the paper’s editor Barnabas Tondhlana were fruitless as there was poor mobile phone connectivity between ZimEye and him.
Zimbabwe bowed to the pressure to license some more media players from some civic organisations and the international community after the banning of the Daily News by the then Information Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo in 2003 which has also resurfaced after being re-licensed by the inclusive government.
However concerns over the freeing of the airwaves remains as no radio or television players have been granted licenses since then. The state controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) continues to operate in a partisan way outside the simple principles of public broadcasting that is, propping up politically motivated violence, whipping up emotions of hate and name calling in most of its programs and other anti-Zanu (PF) voices have been virtually suppressed.
The coming of The Mail means Zimbabwe will now have five daily newspapers namely The Herald, The Chronicle, The Daily News, Newsday and The Mail but they might come up to six if the Boka owned The Nation which was also given a license was to open operations. (ZimEye, Zimbabwe)

5 Replies to “Another newspaper hits Zimbabwe’s streets”

  1. The Mail can carve a niche for itself by focusing on crisis reporting. This cuts across all desks and what more, it is developmental

  2. The Mail can carve a niche for itself by focusing on crisis reporting. This cuts across all desks and what more, it is developmental

  3. yes its a welcome to diversified opinions and views but the fact remains that there will be too much politics in the paper just for profit reasons.And pliz the publishers dont divide people along publishing houses just be fair when covering news.

  4. They shall be their brothers speakers. Those that sought to bind others with the chain shall themselves be cast in dungeons. Those that sought to silence and deny the freedoms of others shall have the same done to them.

  5. With all this happening I feel freedom is coming soon. Mugabe has a chance to choose between being the architect of that freedom, or on the other hand, being its arch-enemy

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