The coverage of crises such as the global health pandemic, COVID-19, is to a large extent guided by national interest, journalistic culture, and editorial policies of media outlets. This chapter argues that the state-controlled newspaper, The Herald , in Zimbabwe deployed constructive journalism ...
In 2004, Robson Sharuko, senior sports editor of The Herald newspaper, dubbed this game the 'battle of Zimbabwe'. The fixture usually explodes into ugly scenes of violence. Such incidents hardly evade the eyes of the mass media. However, growing scholarship on Zimbabwean football......
State-controlled newspaper The Herald, which is accompanying the team to the African showcase, said ZIFA had advised the players they were contemplating the possibility of withdrawing the team from the tournament. This followed a number of meetings between the two parties which had ended in stalem...
The Herald, 6 July 2016Zim in historic London conferenceBy Business Correspondent New Zimbabwe, 5 July 2016Chinamasa: Britain cannot wish Zimbabwe awayBy Staff Reporter Bulawayo24 News, 5 July 2016Chinamasa claims to have been detained at Heathrow Airport in LondonBy Staff Reporter Institute for Sec...
state-controlled The Herald newspaper congratulating President Robert Mugabe (Pictured) on his 87th birthday. President Mugabe has been single-handedly at the helm of Zimbabwe's political affairs since the country became independent on April 18, 1980. ...
Despite earlier declaring loudly that any talk of a successor to Mugabe was “treasonous” Khaya-Moyo changed his tune after Mugabe had resigned. He told the state-owned newspaper,The Herald, that Mugabe “had overstayed the hospitality of the people of Zimbabwe. Worse still,he surrounded himse...
gap between that claim and the reality in Zimbabwe today." In a column in the state-run Herald newspaper last month, Nathaniel Manheru -- thought to be President Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba -- said he had heard that the next US ambassador to Zimbabwe would be black. ...
But writing in the state-owned The Herald newspaper, Mr Mangwana defended the government. “Zimbabwe, like most countries in the world, is currently grappling with challenges attendant to illegal sanctions, drought and the coronavirus pandemic,” he said. He said President Mnangagwa had demonstrated...
Mthabisi Bebhe, secretary general of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, told Reuters that contrary to reports in the state-owned newspaper, the Herald, the association had not yet consulted with members following the meeting and the strike was still underway. ...
State-controlled newspapers in Zimbabwe, which refer to Mr Tsvangirai as a "house nigger", are now giving prominent coverage to his decision to pull out, although not the reasons he has given, with a two-page advert in the Herald telling him: "You lied to us." ...