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Bornwell Chakaodza has died
01 Feb 2012 at 11:03hrs | Views
Former Herald editor and columnist for The Financial Gazette, Bornwell Chakaodza has died.
Chakaodza, who is also a former Director of Information died on Wednesday morning at St Annes Hospital after a long battle with cancer that saw him receive chemotherapy treatment from South Africa.
His death comes barely a few weeks after he was in talks with the Media Institute of Southern Africa Zimbabwe to publish his memoirs.
Chakaodza was also a board member of the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe and a revered journalism trainer.
More details on his funeral arrangements are expected later on but mourners are gathered at his Sunridge home in Harare.
In what ranks as a bad month for journalism in Zimbabwe, his death follows that of Freedom Moyo, a senior manager at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation who died two weeks after a horrific accident and Makuwerere Bwititi who died on Sunday after kidney failure. Bwititi had been working in Namibia.
Bwititi is also a former editor at various Zimpapers newspapers in Mutare, Bulawayo and Harare. Zimpapers owns among others the Manica Post, Chronicle and the Herald newspaper.
Chakaodza, who is also a former Director of Information died on Wednesday morning at St Annes Hospital after a long battle with cancer that saw him receive chemotherapy treatment from South Africa.
His death comes barely a few weeks after he was in talks with the Media Institute of Southern Africa Zimbabwe to publish his memoirs.
More details on his funeral arrangements are expected later on but mourners are gathered at his Sunridge home in Harare.
In what ranks as a bad month for journalism in Zimbabwe, his death follows that of Freedom Moyo, a senior manager at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation who died two weeks after a horrific accident and Makuwerere Bwititi who died on Sunday after kidney failure. Bwititi had been working in Namibia.
Bwititi is also a former editor at various Zimpapers newspapers in Mutare, Bulawayo and Harare. Zimpapers owns among others the Manica Post, Chronicle and the Herald newspaper.
Source - herald
