Set Up In 2005 By Wilf Mbanga, The Zimbabwean Newspaper, Announces Closure

Set Up In 2005 By Wilf Mbanga, The Zimbabwean Newspaper, Announces Closure

A newspaper that gave Zimbabweans an alternative to the state-controlled press during the darkest days of President Robert Mugabe’s clampdown on the free press has announced its closure. Next week’s copy of The Zimbabwean will be its last, the paper announced on its front page Wednesday. Set up in 2005 by Wilf Mbanga, the newspaper offered a different – and very critical – view of Mugabe’s government to that given by the state-controlled Herald and…

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