About Zimpapers

ZIMBABWE Newspapers (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.

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 Sunday News, the largest provincial newspaper in Zimbabwe, The Manica Post, a weekly, that anchors the Mutare unit and Business Weekly, a niche market publication targeting the business community.

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. Pikirayi Deketeke is the current group chief executive officer (CEO) 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. He rose through the ranks to become Editor of The Herald in March 2001 and in 2009 he was appointed group editor in chief until 2011.

Between 2011 and 2014 Deketeke served as the group’s chief operating officer (COO).

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.

It brought together 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.

For more than 80 years, readers, have had the opportunity to buy and trade in the shares of “their newspaper”, – which has seen hundreds of smaller investors joining the big institutional investors in taking a stake in the equity.