The founding editor of the Daily News and Zimbabwe’s leading investigative journalist, Geoff Nyarota has died, multiple sources have reported.
Nyarota who lived to his legacy since the 1970s, will be remembered for warning Zimbabweans about the character of his former employee @daddyhope
Hopewell Chin’ono’s financial scams, published in the AMH newspapers in 2021; just after Chin’ono (formerly surnamed Mukusha) had misled the public by accusing an NHS expert Grace Mupfurutsa of being sent by the regime to a propaganda outfit on 18 Aug 2020. The investigation has since exposed Chin’ono’s large syndicate.
Before his death, Geoff Nyarota complained over how his own employee Chin’ono once deleted his boss’s own voice in 2009, in a way to try and usurp his credits.
Nyarota will be remembered for how he fearlessly exposed Gukurahundi killings in the early 1980s, and financial scams like the Willowgate scandal.
His tenacity in steering forward credible and fearless journalism was above par. Even when he was bullied by Chin’ono on social media, he chose to retain his dignity by staying away from the Daddy character’s rapturous accusations. As a result of his investigation on Chin’ono, more victims of the Daddy character who include Nelson Chamisa @nelsonchamisa have obtained the depth of the alleged scam.
"...Have you since investigated what £50 000 sports car Daddyhope invested in? That's a lot of cash in the UK back then for a young cameraman from Zimbabwe," Nyarota told journalists.
