Paul Nyathi|Government will soon revive the Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust that is mandated to oversee operations of State owned media companies.

This was said by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Mr Nick Mangwana when he appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Information, Media and Broadcasting Services on Wednesday.

The Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust was established by government in 1981 to oversee the operations of news organisations owned by the State.

The last board of the ZMMT which was chaired by Harare lawyer Honour Mkushi was dissolved in December 2000.

The trust had responsibility over the Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) group, Kingstons, Zimbabwe Information Services, and the national news agency, Ziana.

The decision to disband the Trust was taken after Mkushi discussed the dissolution with the then Minister of state for information and publicity, Prof Jonathan Moyo.