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The newsprint shortages have also forced the group to scale down its operations resulting in other newspapers within the stable to print fewer pages.

Other newspapers within the stable include The Herald, The Chronicle, The Sunday Mail, The Sunday News and Kwayedza.

Suppliers of newsprint said that they were operating under harsh conditions due to the shortage of raw material, fuel and the erratic electricity supplies.

A tonne of newsprint at one of the country’s leading newsprint manufacturers, the Mutare Board and Paper Mills (MBPM) is settled in coupons amounting to 740 litres.

The rise in the cost of newsprint has affected the cover prices of most newspapers in the country, thereby negatively affecting newspaper sales that are influenced by the daily Z$500 000 limit.

Rashweat Mukundu
Programme Specialist: Media Freedom Monitoring
MISA Regional Secretariat
21 Johann Albrecht Street
Private Bag 13386
Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: + 264 61 232 975
Fax:+264 61 248016
Mobile: 00 264 813 675 362
E mail rashweat@misa.org, misaalerts@gmail.com

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