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Trevor Ncube

Alpha Media Holdings (AMH)
Chairman
Zimbabwe
Websitehttps://theindependent.co.zw/2015/10/19/alpha-media-holdings/
Trevor Ncube is chairman of Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) based in Zimbabwe, a company he co-founded 22 years ago. AMH owns four newspaper titles in Zimbabwe: NewsDay (national daily), Southern Eye (regional daily), The Zimbabwe Independent (business weekly) and The Standard (Sunday). For 15 years, from 2002 to 2017, Ncube was controlling shareholder, chief executive and executive deputy chairman of the Mail & Guardian Media Group (South Africa), publishers of the Mail & Guardian, a leading weekly. M&G Media also owned Mail & Guardian Africa, which was headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Ncube was awarded a Print Media S.A. Fellowship in 2006. He was awarded the International Publishers Association Freedom Prize Award in 2007, and also won the German Africa Award in 2008. In 2010 Ncube was bestowed the Nation Media Group (Kenya) Life Achievement Award for his work in media on the continent. In 2012 he was awarded the German Peace Dove Award. NewAfrican Magazine named Ncube among the 100 most influential people in Africa in 2012 and 2013. In February 2013 he was named as one of the most influential business people in Zimbabwe since 1980. In 2015 Credit Suisse named Ncube among Africa’s 50 influential people on the continent.