The Herald traces to 27 June 1891, when William Fairbridge launched the Mashonaland Herald and Zambesian Times for South Africa's Argus group as a hand-written weekly produced on a cyclostyle duplicator. It became a daily the following year and was known as The Rhodesia Herald through the colonial period. Its publisher, founded on 8 March 1927 as the Rhodesian Printing and Publishing Company, was renamed Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited at independence and trades as Zimpapers. The company is state-controlled through the Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust, which holds 51 percent, though it remains a listed public company. From newspapers alone it has expanded into commercial printing, radio and television. Hatred Zenenga edits The Herald, and print circulation is around 60,000. This domain is the group's shared platform rather than a single title's site, carrying The Herald alongside the Chronicle, Sunday Mail, Sunday News, Manica Post, H-Metro, B-Metro and the Shona and Ndebele papers Kwayedza and uMthunywa, with links out to ZTN television and Zimpapers Radio. Today, Zimpapers is mainly focused on the presidency and government ministries, Treasury and monetary policy, mining and agriculture, national commemorations, courts and police, and domestic football, from their base in Harare, Zimbabwe. One interesting fact: it began as a hand-copied news sheet in a mining camp and is now, 135 years on, the flagship of a nine-masthead state media group.