The Times of Zambia is a state-owned English-language daily broadsheet newspaper published in Zambia and headquartered in Ndola, wholly owned by the Government of the Republic of Zambia. Its predecessor, the Copperbelt Times, was established in Northern Rhodesia in the early 1930s and later renamed the Northern News, a twice-weekly newspaper that became a daily from 1953. Under the ownership of Lonrho, controlled by businessman Tiny Rowland, the paper was renamed the Times of Zambia on July 1, 1965, with journalist Richard Hall appointed as editor. The Kaunda administration intervened to appoint its own editor-in-chief in 1972, and Zambia’s ruling United National Independence Party (UNIP) took the paper over outright in 1975. Following the return of multiparty democracy, a court transferred ownership to the Zambian government. The paper also publishes the Sunday Times of Zambia and falls within the supervisory portfolio of the Ministry of Information and Media alongside the Zambia Daily Mail.