“It has been a long held ambition to venture into print publishing. This couldn’t come early enough,” said New Zimbabwe.com editor, Mduduzi Mathuthu, also a director of New Zimbabwe Media, alongside Jeff Madzingo, currently the boss of Destiny Financial Serivices Limited.

New Zimbabwe.com went online in June 2003, and was the first commercial Zimbabwean news Web site. With an average 500,000 hits per day, the Web site has grown to command the biggest market share after toppling the state-run Herald newspaper in late 2005, according to the Web traffic site, Alexa.com. New Zimbabwe will be published and distributed across the United Kingdom. Mathuthu said there were no immediate plans to publish the paper in Zimbabwe, although limited copies would be made available to subscribers. Publishing in Zimbabwe, he said, was not commercially viable under the current economic climate. The first edition of the paper will be rolled out on Thursday, July 7. The paper will be mainly free, although it could be sold in some areas, Mathuthu said. New Zimbabwe.com will continue publishing as usual, with separate content from the paper which will have a separate editorial team and editor, the company stated. http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/newzim.16460.html; May 23, 2007