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'Dinner With Mugabe' author dies at 64
12 Aug 2012 at 09:52hrs | Views
Police say author Heidi Holland, who chronicled the rise of President Robert Mugabe, has been found dead. She was 64.
Lieutenant Colonel Katlego Mogale said a gardener found Holland's body at her home in Melville, a suburb of Johannesburg, on Saturday.
Mogale said it appeared Holland had killed herself and there were no signs of foul play or a robbery.
Holland wrote the 2008 book Dinner With Mugabe, which included her interviews with friends and family members of Zimbabwe's president. The book also includes her interviews with Mugabe, once as a freedom fighter, then later as president after years of unrest in his nation.
Holland had been published in a number of newspapers as a freelance journalist and had an occasional column with Johannesburg newspaper The Star.
She also recently published a book on the ANC's history: 100 Years of Struggle - Mandela's ANC
Lieutenant Colonel Katlego Mogale said a gardener found Holland's body at her home in Melville, a suburb of Johannesburg, on Saturday.
Mogale said it appeared Holland had killed herself and there were no signs of foul play or a robbery.
Holland had been published in a number of newspapers as a freelance journalist and had an occasional column with Johannesburg newspaper The Star.
She also recently published a book on the ANC's history: 100 Years of Struggle - Mandela's ANC
Source - AP
