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Geoff Nyarota was one of Zimbabwe’s most celebrated journalists until something went wrong at the newspaper that he had started- The Daily News. The newspaper lives on, having been shut down for seven years, but without him. There are 19 Wikileaks cables on him. Here they are.

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Daily News editor Geoff Nyarota and his former business partner Wilf Mbanga were arrested for allegedly flouting investment laws and exchange control regulations when they obtained the operating licence to launch the newspaper in 1998.

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Charges against the four journalists from the Daily News were changed from publishing a report that could cause fear, alarm and despondency to distribution or circulation of a subversive statement.

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Three senior editors of the Daily News, Geoff Nyarota, William Saidi and John Gambanga were arrested together with reporter Sam Munyavi over a story that alleged that police vehicles had been used to assist people looting commercial farms in Chinhoyi.

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Zimbabwe paid some British pensioners currently residing in South Africa in March but has since stopped the payments because of technical and procedural difficulties with some of the banks.

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President Robert Mugabe displayed his economic ignorance when he officially opened Parliament in July 2003 as his economic recovery ambitions were not based on reality, or any concept close to this, according to United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti today said diamond revenue could be going to a parallel government as treasury only received US$30.4 million against a target of US$122.5 million in the first quarter of this year.

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President Robert Mugabe is reported to have warned the United States and Britain not to invade Zimbabwe saying it would be their children who would die first.

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South African President Thabo Mbeki denied that he had discussed with United States President George Bush during his visit to Pretoria that President Robert Mugabe would step down in December.

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The Daily News said President George Bush should put pressure on South African President Thabo Mbeki to stop covering for President Robert Mugabe.

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