Tony Namate has been Zimbabwe’s most consistent political cartoonist for the past 18 years. He started as resident cartoonist at state-controlled The Herald in 1988 until he joined Zimbabwe’s first independent Daily newspaper, The Daily Gazette in 1992. He left in 1994 to become a freelancer after the demise of the paper. He did political cartoons for Horizon magazine from 1991 to 1997.
In 1996 he became cartoonist for the new weekly, Zimbabwe Independent, and was invited by founding editor Geoff Nyarota to join the new Daily News in 1998. During Zimbabwe’s most volatile political period between 2000 and 2003, the Daily News was bombed twice and then shut down twice by the government, and finally went off the streets in 2003.
Namate was given honorable mention by UN Secretary General Koffi Annan for the 2000 UN Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award.
In April 2004 Namate was invited to receive the CRN Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award in Lexington, Kentucky, during the annual convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC).
Tony Namate has been Zimbabwe’s most consistent political cartoonist for the past 18 years. He started as resident cartoonist at state-controlled The Herald in 1988 until he joined Zimbabwe’s first independent Daily newspaper, The Daily Gazette in 1992. He left in 1994 to become a freelancer after the demise of the paper. He did political cartoons for Horizon magazine from 1991 to 1997.
