Mail and Guardian Online - Trevor Ncube

Mail and Guardian Online is the internet version of the South African print newspaper Mail and Guardian.

The online version of the paper is said to have been the first newspaper to utilize the internet in Africa back in 1994. The news website itself is owned 87.5% by a Botswana registered company Newtrust Company Botswana Limited, owned by Zimbabwean publisher and entrepreneur Trevor Ncube.

The online paper is run from the same media house as the print version in Johannesburg , South Africa. It has its own full time staff and regularly is the first with breaking news on Africa and the world in general. It would appear that most of Africa's diaspora reads daily the Mail and Guardian internet version for latest updates from Africa.

The online paper has in the last ten years played a leading role in giving highlight and constant coverage of the Zimbabwe crisis including the Zimbabwe economic and Zimbabwe currency trouble.


Trevor Ncube the owner of the Mail and Guardian Online and the Mail and Guardian Newspaper also owns two Zimbabwe's only independent newspapers The Zimbabwe Independent and The Standard.

Trevor Ncube has in the past clashed with the President of Zimbabwe in encounters largely seen as political. As of November 2009, plans are at an advanced stage to launch a new Zimbabwe daily called NewsDay that would directly compete with the state owned Zimbabwe Herald newspaper.

The Mail and Guardian can be accessed online by following this link.

In external News Archives

• Ncube to launch daily newspaper (The Zimbabwe Times - March 2009)
• NCBL acquires majority shareholding of Mail & Guardian (Bizcommunity.com - July 2002)

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