About

The Daily News, Zimbabwe’s last independent daily newspaper, is still fighting for its life in the courts and on the Internet. The paper, founded in 1999, had been the most popular paper in Zimbabwe with a pass-around readership of about 800,000.

But its outspoken criticism of President Robert Mugabe brought the paper a boatload of trouble. The Daily News had its printing presses bombed, and a number of its execs, editors and reporters were detained by the government.

Mugabe passed the restrictive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) in 2002, requiring all media outlets to register with the government.

The Daily News refused — choosing instead to fight the law’s constitutionality — and was closed down by order of the Supreme Court. The government confiscated 127 computers from the paper’s headquarters in the capital city of Harare.

This website was created by The Daily News’ former employees, friends and well wishers to continue to fight for media plurality in Zimbabwe. Still “Telling it like it is”