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Mupfudza dies
Martin Chemhere, The Herald (Zimbabwe)
May 05, 2010

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Educationist and journalist Stanley Ruzvidzo Mupfudza has died. He was 39. Mupfudza died on Monday at Parirenyatwa Hospital after a long illness.

A holder of a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English and a Masters in English from the University of Zimbabwe, Mupfudza taught English for eight years at Oriel Boys High.

He later joined the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation as chief producer of social and cultural programmes at the then Kidznet Unit. Mupfudza moved to DDD Hash3 an advertising agency as a copywriter.

In September 2004, Mupfudza joined the Zimbabwe Mirror Newspapers Group as assistant editor and later deputy editor. He was subsequently appointed acting editor of The Sunday Mirror.

Mupfudza wrote several short stories including Pictures of Madness, Pieces of a Jigsaw Puzzle and Cockroaches among many others.

Some of these were published in collections that brought together Zimbabwe's finest crop of writers since the 1980s.

He also contributed to various national and international publications and was one of a group of writers who ignited the race debate through a series of articles in The Herald and Moto magazine in the mid-1990s.

At the time of his death, Mupfudza was manager of the legal publications unit in the Legal Resources Foundation.

Mourners are gathered at House Number 17 Cavel Drive in Southerton.

Mupfudza will be buried in Mufudza Village, Guruve, today at 2pm.

He is survived by two sons aged 12 and 8.

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