Cautious optimism as Newsday hits the streets of Zimbabwe

"It is difficult to describe in words. I was so emotional. I love my country and was convinced that Zimbabwe needed a daily that is professional and ethical, that would help with nation building and national healing. We've been a sick society."

Those are the emotions of Trevor Ncube, who this past week launched NewsDay, an independent daily that will offer Zimbabweans news and analysis free of propaganda for the first time in seven years. Zimbabweans have been force fed a daily stable of government disinformation courtesy of Mugabe's Zimbabwe Newspapers but that changed when the recently formed Zimbabwe Media Commission granted four new licenses to independent papers in a breakthrough for media freedom in the country. The owner of M&G Media, which publishes Mail & Guardian, Ncube owns two other Zimbabwean papers (The Standard and The Zimbabwe Independent) alongside the newly launched NewsDay.

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