Zimbabwe mourns the death of veteran journalist Geoffrey Nyarota

Zimbabwe is mourning veteran journalist and human rights activist, Geoffrey Nyarota, who died on Saturday of colon cancer.

The 74-year-old was best known for exposing government corruption and launching what became the country’s most popular and critical independent newspaper.

Nyarota had trained as a teacher, one of the few jobs open to educated Blacks during white minority rule in what was then known as Rhodesia, before branching…