News sources

Zimbabwe Situation’s primary purpose is to be a document of record for Zimbabwe. We present all the viewpoints we can gather and present them in a fast-loading, no-frills website. We provide a digest of the previous day’s headlines, giving our news sources full attribution and valuable links back to their original articles. Visit their websites, listed below, to see their articles – complete with images, audio and video – the moment they’re published.

Independent media and NGO’s

• S W Radio Africa: The Independent Voice of Zimbabwe
• NehandaRadio: Zimbabwe News and Internet Radio Station
• RadioVOP Zimbabwe: broadcasts 8.00pm-9.00pm everyday on Short Wave 9345KHz in Shona, Ndebele and English
• NewsDay Zimbabwe: AMH publication – daily. “Everyday News for Everyday People”
• Southern Eye: AMH publication – daily.  Southern “sister” publication to NewsDay
• Bulawayo24: news from Bulawayo established 2010
• The Source: Independent financial and business news providing trusted information from Zimbabwe – also of value to potential foreign investors
• Daily News:  Zimbabwe’s leading daily newspaper, a source of balanced and unbiased news on Zimbabwean issues – Telling it like it is
• New Zimbabwe: online edition of “The New Zimbabwe”, Zimbabwe’s weekly tabloid
• The Zimbabwean: edited by Wilf Mbanga, founder and first Chief Executive of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe
• The Standard: AMH publication – Zimbabwe’s Leading Sunday Newspaper
• Zimbabwe Independent : AMH publication – Zimbabwe’s leading business weekly – every Friday
• The Telescope News – Zimbabwe: an online political news website
• Zim Eye: Close range Zimbabwe news disclosed daily without restriction
• The Financial Gazette: established in 1969 and owned by Zimbabwean investors, weekly supports democratic and pluralistic politics and free market policies – every Thursday
• Media Monitoring Project (Zimbabwe)
• Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition: (CiZC) broad based civil society network of over 72 active members comprising churches, women’s groups, social movements, residents associations, labour unions, human rights lawyers, and health professionals
• Kubatana: The Kubatana Trust and The NGO Network Alliance Project – an online community for Zimbabwean activists
• Sokwanele: Campaigning non-violently for freedom and democracy in Zimbabwe
• Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU):  independent NGO run by a Management Committee comprised of experienced researchers and advocacy experts, established in 2006

Directories and archives

• Veritas: provides information on the work of the Parliament of Zimbabwe and the Laws of Zimbabwe and makes public domain information widely available.
• NewsNow: Every Source, Every Five Minutes, 24/7
• Stanford University – California: a grouping of worthwhile news sources on Zimbabwe

State media

• The Herald:  Part of ZimPapers – established 1891
• The Chronicle: Part of ZimPapers – established 1894
• The Sunday News: Part of ZimPapers – established 1930
• The Sunday Mail: Part of ZimPapers – established 1935

African media

• Mail & Guardian: largely owned by Zimbabwean publisher (AMH) and entrepreneur Trevor Ncube
• The Daily Maverick: sometimes more news than you can shake a stick at
• The Star (Johannesburg)
• SABC TV news: TV highlights from SABC – South Africa
• Times LIVE:  Latest news from South Africa, home of The Times and Sunday Times newspaper
• Sunday Independent: IOL.co.za – part of the Independent Group

Foreign media

• Voice of America – Zimbabwe: Studio 7
• BBC NEWS – Africa: latest African news from BBC News in Africa: breaking news, features, analysis and special reports plus audio and video from across the African continent.
• The Guardian – UK: Latest news and comment on Zimbabwe from guardian.co.uk
• The Telegraph – UK: all the latest and breaking Zimbabwe news from telegraph.co.uk
• SKY news: Breaking News, video, headlines, analysis and top stories from business, politics, entertainment and more in the UK and worldwide.
• Reuters News: latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in business, politics, entertainment, technology, and more in video and pictures.
• CNN – Africa: CNN brings you headlines, video and news stories from Africa

Essential blogs

• ZimbabweLand: Debating Zimbabwe’s Land Reform
• Rethinking Zimbabwe | African Arguments: a collective effort to provide timely and thoughtful analysis and debate concerning future strategies to renew Zimbabwean political culture and society.
• Cathy Buckle: Letters to friends with news from Zimbabwe
• Letter from the Diaspora: The outside looking in from Cathy Buckle’s site
• Eddie Cross: articles archived since 2001

• insiderzim.com: publication focussing on Zimbabwe. Specialises in in-depth, analytical business and political news about Zimbabwe

• MaDube’s reflections: “The possibility of reprisals is high but silence is not an option. So I shall speak.“
• Reflections Of An African Youth – Tawanda Moyo: Random Musings on Football, Politics and Life

…humour…always appreciated

• Zapiro: South Africa’s most popular and leading cartoonist – worth a bit of time when the politics get too serious