Zanu PF fires newspaper editor

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By Staff Reporter

LOVEMORE Mataire, the editor of Zanu PF's official newspaper, The Voice, has been axed from his job.

He had been on suspension since early this year.

Lovemore Chikova, Mataire's deputy, has taken over as editor, New Zimbabwe.com was told last night.

The paper disappeared from the news stands in February due to viability problems, only to come back this month.

Mataire, who once described himself in Gibbs Magazine, an African-American publication, as a "Pan-Africanist who believes that only blacks can overcome the problems that confront them today -- most of which are historical" landed in hot soup after he pocketed $6 million from vendors sellign the newspaper.

Mataire was also seen as very keen to align himself with the country's struggle for independence from white minority rule.

He states in his CV that he was born at Chimoi, Mozambique, where Zimbabwean guerilla fighters assembled in the 1970's before launching raids into Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia.

He says his mother died during a raid on the Chimoi refugee camp by Rhodesian forces.

Mataire was dragged to court by the party's national spokesman Nathan Shamuyarira and later saved by the party's powerful secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, amid reports of a clash between the two top Zanu PF officials on the matter.

Mutasa withdrew charges brought by the party against Mataire, who joined The Voice from the state-run Herald newspaper.
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