He was aged 74.
The celebrated scribe famous for exposing the Willowgate vehicle scandal involving ministers and top government officials, passed on in Harare after a long illness.
Nyarota, the founding editor of Daily News, had taken to publishing, having authored a book titled ‘The Honourable Minister’, which is an anatomy of endemic corruption in the country. He also wrote other books, Against the Grain and The Graceless Fall of Mugabe.
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